Blog Posts

Cultures of thinking in the language classroom – recording now available

10/6/2021

Thank you to our colleagues who joined us live for our session on Cultures of thinking in the language classroom. We hoped you enjoyed the session and learning more about how you can use thinking routines and tools to deepen understanding and increase engagement in your classroom.

You can now access the recording on our YouTube channel.

In coming weeks we will share ideas and tips along with a thinking routine booklet in our statewide staffroom.

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.

Support for Latin

7/6/2021

Our support for Latin is finally starting to come to fruition! A HUGE thanks to our small but mighty team of writers who are continuing to develop resources.

We have just published programming guidelines for classical languages 7-10 on our new Latin Stages 4 and 5 page.

We have also added a Latin folder to the Resources shared tab within our statewide staffroom, if you'd like to share your resources with other Latin teachers within our schools.

More support is coming, so stay tuned!

MLTA Linguafest film competition

4/6/2021

The MLTA invites schools to submit entries in the 2021 Linguafest film competition. Students are asked to create and submit a short film based on the theme of a choice and with the signature item of a piece of fruit placed somewhere in the film.

The teacher/school submitting the film MUST be a CURRENT (financial) member of the MLTANSW.

Entries close on Wednesday 8 September 2021.

Further information about requirements, prizes and submission instructions can be found on the MLTA NSW website.

For any enquiries or questions, please contact the Linguafest Convenor via email.

Language Teacher Network – Queanbeyan

4/6/2021

The Queanbeyan Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 2 meeting on Tuesday 8 June. The focus of the meeting will be 'supporting language students with dyslexia'.

Enrol via MyPL:
Course code: NR25533
Date: Tuesday 15 June 2021
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
Venue: Finigan School of Distance Education

Delicious afternoon tea will be provided! Everyone is welcome.

For more information and details, contact the network leader Amanda Rowe or call 6210 5286.

Language Teacher Network – Mid North Coast

3/6/2021

The Mid North Coast Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 2 meeting on Thursday 10 June.
The meeting will include a teachmeet. If you are interested in presenting, contact Jody Newhouse.

Please enrol on MyPL.
Course code: NR25838
Session name: Language Network Meeting – Mid North Coast
Date: Thursday 10 June 2021
Venue: Coffs Harbour High School
Time: 9:00 am-3:00 pm

If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the network leader Jody Newhouse.

Language Teacher Network – Illawarra

3/6/2021

The CNI Languages Teacher Network will hold its Term 2 meeting on Wednesday 16 June.
The meeting will focus on using numeracy in the languages classroom.

Please enrol on MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session name: CNI Languages network meeting Term 2
Date: Wednesday 16 June 2021
Venue: Figtree High School Bistro
Time: 3:45-4:45 pm

If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the network leaders Evia Kyriacou or Kristen Faraday.

Attention teachers of Arabic, Chinese or French in NSW public schools

3/6/2021

The Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education (SICLE) is undertaking a project to develop and trial an assessment and reporting framework for languages education (K-12) in Australia.

The framework draws on research into first, second and heritage language development and will include the development of generic and language-specific learning progressions. The progressions can identify student learning and growth in listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural competence at all Stages of schooling in all sites of learning.

Initially, the language progressions will be developed for Arabic, Chinese and French.

SICLE is seeking 2 primary and 2 secondary teachers for each language to:

- learn about the progressions
- moderate student work samples against the progressions
- adapt and refine the progressions to cater for specific language differences and work samples.

Relief will be available for participating teachers.

If you are interested in participating, please read full details in the K-6 Yammer group (for primary teachers) or in the secondary statewide staffroom (for secondary teachers).

Please indicate your interest by 5 pm Tuesday 8 June 2021.

Language Teacher Network – Sydney South West

2/6/2021

We are welcoming Adele Walker as the new leader for the Language Teacher Network – Sydney South West. Adele has been a teacher of French and German for 15 years, both in Sydney and overseas. She is currently teaching at Fairvale High School.

As she is new to the network leader role, she is looking to build the network's membership. If you are a language teacher in South West Sydney, please complete this short survey to register your interest.

For any questions, please email Adele Walker directly.

Language Teacher Network – Virtual

31/5/2021

The Virtual Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 2 meeting on Wednesday 9 June.
The meeting will focus on Stage 6 assessment – non-HSC style with interrelated tasks combining multi macro skills and their connection to Stage 4 and 5 task-based assessment.

If you teach in a geographically remote location, or you are unable to attend your local geographical network, please join us.

This session will run via Microsoft Teams. You will receive the link via the confirmation email when you enrol on MyPL.

Please enrol on MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Date: Wednesday 9 June 2021
Venue: Microsoft Teams
Time: 4:00-4:45 pm - there will be time for discussion at the end.

If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the network leaders Evia Kyriacou or Coreena Allen.

If you're unable to join us live, we will record the session.