Immigration Museum and VicTESOL: Integrating culture and language for EAL learners
On Thursday 19 May, Gurmeet Kaur, the Education Programs Producer at Immigration Museum, shared how the museum’s resources can be best used to engage EAL learners from primary to adult. […]
Looking ahead: an overview of the new VCE English and EAL study design and planning for Units 1 & 2 in 2023
Copy of Presentation Summary A wonderfully thorough and informative presentation about the changes to the new English/EAL Study Design was offered by Kellie Heintz from the EAL Division of the […]
Enacting translation and translanguaging collaboratively between teachers and learners for knowledge building
Dr Julie Choi and Ms Kailin Liu presented a session on 24 March entitled: Enacting translation and translanguaging collaboratively between teachers and learners for knowledge building. In this session they […]
VCE EAL Exam Webinar – Meet the Assessors Online 2022
The VCAA Chief Assessor for VCE EAL, Glynis Rose, and Assistant Chief Assessors, Rosemary McLoughlin, Jenna Gomes and Michael E Daniel, presented an overview of the 2021 VCE EAL exam. […]
Members Resource Page – Assessment and Reporting for EAL students in primary and secondary schools
Thursday November 18, 4-5pm Online Panel Discussion What does effective assessment look like? How do we give feedback that shows students their strengths and assists them to improve? How is […]
*Resources Page* VicTESOL Symposium 2021 – TESOL in a time of COVID: Implications and Possibilities
VicTESOL, the state association for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) & Multicultural Education, held our annual Symposium on Tuesday 31 August. This was live online event […]
EAL Micro-Teaching Vignette – Membership Grids
A lot of professional learning quite rightly focuses on the global, big-picture ideas of teaching and learning, but what about a small, everyday practice of successful teaching. In this series […]
VCE EAL Resources – ‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent
These resources have been created as scaffolding tasks to support initial comprehension through to critical analysis via collaborative meaning-making activities for Units 1 and 3, Outcome 1. Students are encouraged […]
Online Resourcing and Networking session for pre-service, early-career EAL teachers and teachers new to EAL
Thursday 3 June, 2021, 4-5pm Online Event – Presentation and Conversation Rooms This was an opportunity for teachers who are at a similar stage of their careers to share practice […]
Motivating Learners in the Language Classroom
Mairin Hennebry-Leung & Xuesong (Andy) Gao Wednesday 19 May, 4-5:30 pm (AEST) Online Webinar As most language teachers know, motivation is a vital component of effective language learning. Without it, […]