Category: Sydney North

Language Teachers Network – Sydney North

17/3/2022

The Language Teachers Network – Sydney North will hold its first meeting for 2022 as a full day event on Friday 8 April. The whole day will be delivered online.

This full day language network meeting day is made up of 2 parts. You must enrol in both sessions as we will be using ideas from part one in the afternoon:

- 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Languages and Literacy 7-12 – presented by the Languages and Culture team
- 1:00-3:00 pm – Language teachers network meeting. How can we use, alleviate and address language anxiety in:
- promoting languages at our school, (do we overtly address language anxiety)
- addressing it and overcoming it in our formative tasks
- alleviating it in assessment tasks to maximise student engagement and performance.

To enrol for the day you need to enrol in two sessions on MyPL:
1. Languages and Literacy 7-12, course code NR32663 – please select Languages and literacy 7-12 - Sydney North
2. Language teachers’ network meeting, course code NR25534 – please select Sydney North - Language Teacher Network meeting.

Please ensure you have approval from your principal and enrol by Tuesday 5 April.

For more information, please contact the network leader Margaret Wajs or Evia Kyriacou.

Language Teacher Network – Sydney North

8/6/2021

The Sydney North Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 2 meeting on Wednesday 23 June. The meeting will focus on sharing tasks and activities that work well in the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to share them in a platform with the group. There will also be short presentations from Joanna Cheok from Lindfield Learning Village and Nyssa Bunyan from Willoughby Girls High School.

Please enrol on MyPL.
Course code: NR25533
Session name: Sydney North Language Teacher Network meeting Term 2 2021
Date: Wednesday 23 June 2021
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Venue: Zoom
Meeting ID: 4145770390

For more information or queries, please contact the network leader Margaret Wajs.

Sydney North – Language Teacher Network extraordinary meeting

17/11/2020

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North will hold an extraordinary network meeting on Thursday 10 December 2020, 7:00-9:00pm.

Special event with Steve Smith from the UK.

Steve Smith taught French for 33 years and is now an author, resource writer and teacher educator. He is Lead Subject Tutor at the University of Buckingham, author of frenchteacher.net and has written or co-written 4 books for language teachers: The Language Teacher Toolkit, Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher, Breaking the Sound Barrier and 50 Lesson Plans for French Teachers. His latest book, written with Gianfranco Conti, is called Memory: What Every Language Teacher Should Know.

Steve Smith will present on 'Maximising student retention by devising effective lessons'.

Please enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR25534
Date: 10 December 2020
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Venue: Zoom
Meeting ID: 414577039

For further information contact the network leader Margaret Wajs or call on 9958 4141.

Sydney North – Language Teacher Network meeting

16/11/2020

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North will hold its Term 4 meeting on Tuesday 8 December 2020.

Katya Varela will be leading the professional learning afternoon on:
- students experiencing success in their language learning – a powerful advocacy strategy
- feedback and error correction strategies.

Register on MyPL.
Course code: NR25534
Date: 8 December 2020
Time: 1:30-3:30pm
Venue: Zoom
Meeting ID: 414577039

For further information contact the network leader Margaret Wajs or call on 9958 4141.

Language Teacher Network meeting – Sydney North

10/8/2020

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North will hold its Term 3 meeting tomorrow, Tuesday 10 August 2020 via Zoom.

Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session: Sydney North - Language teachers network meeting, Term 3
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Zoom
Meeting ID: 4145770390

For further information, please contact the network leader, Margaret Wajs.

Language Teacher Network meeting – Sydney North

17/6/2020

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North will hold its Term 2 network meeting on 23 June 2020.
The focus of the meeting will be sharing things that worked, remarkable finds, looking over the past as life is getting back to a new normal, and making a plan for the next meeting.

Date: Tuesday 23 June 2020
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Zoom
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4145770390
Code: 4145770390

Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session: Language Teachers Network Meeting Sydney North.

For further information, please contact the network leader, Margaret Wajs.

Language Teacher Network – Sydney North, Term 4 meeting

15/10/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North is holding its Term 4 meeting on Monday 28 October.

The meeting will have 2 parts:
1. The network meeting will run for 2 hours and will focus on the new Extension support materials.
2. For teachers who would like to stay on, the network meeting will be followed by the Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages course which will contribute to 2.5 hours of registered professional learning.

All languages teachers living and/or working in the area are welcome to attend.

For detailed information please visit the original post on this page or contact Margaret Wajs or Evia Kyriacou.

Sydney North Language Teacher Network – Term 4 meeting

23/9/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North will hold its Term 4 meeting on Monday 28 October. The meeting will have 2 parts:
1. The network meeting will run for 2 hours and will focus on the new Extension support materials.
2. For teachers who would like to stay on, the network meeting will be followed by the Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages course which will contribute to 2.5 hours of registered professional learning.

Date: Monday 28 October 2019
Times:
1:30-3:30pm network meeting (Extension materials)
4:00-6:00pm Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages
Venue: Willoughby Girls High School
Session names and codes:
Language Teachers' Network Sydney North Term 4 (NR25534) and
Sydney North – Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages (RG04979)

Participants will be required to enrol for both courses if they wish to attend both sessions.

For the Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages course, there are 4 components that will need to be completed in order to receive the registered hours of professional learning:
- pre-task – identifying and demonstrating the mandatory weightings and components of assessment tasks, which will be emailed to you one week prior to the workshop
- 2 hour workshop – developing an understanding of the legislative and syllabus requirements
- post-task – designing an effective assessment task to be used with their Stage 6 language class(es) which will be assessed using the post-task marking criteria
- the post-event evaluation.

All languages teachers living and/or working in the area are welcome to attend. For Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages, DoE teachers are eligible to receive the registered hours if they complete all components; non-DoE teachers can include this session as Teacher Identified hours.

For further details please contact Margaret Wajs or Evia Kyriacou.

FREE afternoon workshop with Dr Gianfranco Conti – Sydney North Language Teacher Network

19/11/2018

Dr Gianfranco Conti, in collaboration with the Language Teacher Network – Sydney North, will hold a half day workshop for language teachers.

This workshop is a 4 hour registered professional development event.
To register, search for course code RG04139 on MyPL.

For further information please contact MARGARET.WAJS@det.nsw.edu.au

Date: Thursday 22 November
Time: 1:30-5:30pm
Venue: Willoughby Legions Club
Cost: NIL
Content:
Session 1 – maximising learning and dealing with “forgetting rates” in language learning.
Participants will learn about how brain function affects language learning and engage in reflection on the teaching and learning experience. Participants will learn new strategies that can enhance better student retention of new vocabulary.

Session 2 – lexico-grammar and writing strategies for the language classroom.
Lexico-grammar is a term specific to systemic functional linguistics. Participants will learn about methods of teaching lexico-grammar to embed the pedagogy into programs and practice.