The Spanish Education Office is offering a free online course 'Video creation and editing in the Spanish class', for Spanish teachers. This 8-hour course will take place on the following dates:
- 26 August, 4-7 pm

• - 2 September, 4-6:30 pm
• - 9 September, 4-6:30 pm

You can access more information on cursos para profesores.
 
The Spanish Education Office in collaboration with LaLiga is also presenting the ‘International School Short Film Competition in Spanish’ aimed at primary and secondary students in Australian and New Zealand schools where Spanish is studied.
 
You can access more information on proyectos educativos y culturales.

The submission date closes on 31 October.
 
For more information please contact Bárbara Bello Gonzalez, Spanish Education Advisor

The Spanish Teachers' Association is excited to announce the latest initiative for professional development this year – a professional reading book club!
The book club will start with the latest book by Gianfranco Conti and Steve Smith called “Memory: What every language teacher should know”.
​The idea is to discuss 4 chapters each meeting before having a final meeting with Conti himself. All discussions will be done in Spanish (and the occasional 'Spanglish' when necessary). 

The dates for these meetings are as follows:
-  Thursday 5 August, 4:30-5:30 pm – discussion on chapters 1 to 4
-  Thursday 16 September, 4:30-5:30 pm – discussion on chapters 5 to 8
-  Thursday 7 October, 4:30-5:30 pm – discussion on chapters 9 to 12
-  Thursday 4 November, 4:30-5:300 pm – discussion on chapters 13 to 16
-  Wednesday 1 December, 4-6 pm – final meeting with Conti.
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The prices for this professional development opportunity are: 
EARLY BIRD – until 5 pm Friday July 23

• STANSW members: $30
• Non-Members: $80

** Book purchase not included **
 
STANDARD - after 5pm Friday July 23

• STANSW members: $40
• Non-Members: $100  

** Book purchase not included **
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Please use our website to register.
 
Book available on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/z22s78rh
 
For more information please contact Kati Varela, President of STANSW. 

The Spanish Education Office, in collaboration with the NSW Department of Education, is pleased to announce that the 2021 NSW Spanish Teachers' Conference will be held on Tuesday 2 November 2021.

We are seeking expressions of interest for presenters from all sectors in the following areas:
- syllabus support – implementation, programming, assessment and reporting

• - Stage 6 support – assessment strategies, curriculum resources
• - intercultural understanding – strengthening student intercultural capabilities
• - ICT – connecting beyond the classroom, the flipped classroom and learning Spanish through information and communication capability
• - pedagogy – differentiation, strategies for language development, CLIL, student engagement, high potential and gifted education
• - Spanish language advocacy – exchange programs, in-country experiences, building elective classes in Stage 5, successful Spanish school programs
• - TeachMeet session on an area of interest of about 10-15 minutes
• - other.
  


• If you would like to present, please complete the attached EOI form and send it to Barbara Bello or Maxine Acosta-Ostrzycki or Marcela Ayas by 5 pm on 15 August 2021.

For further information, please contact maxine.acosta4@det.nsw.edu.au or marcela.ayas@det.nsw.edu.au

La Consejería de Educación en Australia en colaboración con el Departamento de Educación de Nueva Gales del Sur tiene el gusto de invitar a todos los profesores de español, a expertos en esta lengua y a los conocedores y amantes de la cultura de los países en los que se habla español, a  compartir sus conocimientos, ideas y experiencias educativas en la próxima Conferencia para Profesores de Español de Nueva Gales del Sur, que tendrá lugar el próximo martes 2 de noviembre 2021, en Sydney.
 
Nos gustaría dar a conocer experiencias innovadoras en el terreno de la enseñanza de las lenguas, mostrar recursos alternativos para la enseñanza del español, compartir estrategias de motivación eficaces, demostrar estrategias de pedagogía sobre el currículo y un largo etcétera de temas que, principalmente, den respuesta a vuestras necesidades, y que a la vez sean inspiradoras para vuestro trabajo diario en el aula. El Departamento de Educación nos brinda la oportunidad de compartir una jornada de formación que no podemos desaprovechar.
 
Hemos incluido en la conferencia una sección de  “Teach Meets” para todos aquellos que quieran compartir, de una manera más informal y breve (10-15 minutos) una experiencia con los alumnos, una estrategia  de trabajo, una herramienta útil. Se trata de sacar el máximo partido a este encuentro con la colaboración de todos vosotros.
 
Si deseáis intervenir como ponentes o en la sección de “Teach Meets” podéis hacernos llegar vuestra propuesta enviando el formulario correspondiente (por favor utilizad el formulario) a esta dirección de correo:  asesoriacanberra.au@educacion.gob.es antes del 15 de agosto 2021.

​Para cualquier sugerencia que deseéis realizar también podéis contactar directamente a Bárbara Bello Gonzalez, Spanish Education Advisor.
 
Esperamos recibir pronto vuestras propuestas para celebrar y disfrutar juntos de nuestra próxima Conferencia para Profesores de Español en NSW.

-Expressions of interest are invited from teachers of Spanish who are able to teach part-time or full-time at NSW School of Languages as soon as possible. Teachers may be able to teach from their home school if employed elsewhere.

Please complete the EOI and send to TOMOKO.TAKAHATA@det.nsw.edu.au

​For further information, please call 02 9381 4800.