Jenny Robins Thursday 4 March 2021, 4-5:30 pm (AEDT) Online Event Jenny Robins began as a volunteer in 2011, then became a qualified teacher, working with adult migrants, people from...
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Glynis Rose & Rosemary McLoughlin Tuesday 16 February 2021, 4-5:30pm, Online event In this session, Glynis and Rosemary provided feedback on student performance in the 2020 VCE EAL exam, including...
Stephanie Georgiou & Maddy Oh Tuesday 9 February, 4-5:30 pm Online Event Presenters: Stephanie Georgiou has more than 18 years of experience in teaching EAL. She has worked in the...
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AMEP TEACHERS
Alison Larkins, Commonwealth Co-ordinator General for Migrant Services, provided an important briefing for AMEP teachers in a webinar hosted on 11thNovember. Click here to access the recording.
The AMEP team in the Department of Home Affairs is currently considering the questions raised during the webinar and their response will be posted on the ACTA website once it becomes available. Please refer to the file below to view the questions posted in the Q&A box in the webinar.
Ms Larkins and the AMEP team in the Department of Home Affairs have generously agreed to a second on-line meeting early in March 2021. The aim of the meeting will be for Alison and the AMEP team to listen to participants’ ideas around some of the key issues raised at the last meeting.
Key questions will be circulated before the meeting. The meeting will consist of break-out groups to discuss the questions, followed by reports back to the whole meeting and discussion.
Further details as they become available will be on the EVENTS page on the ACTA website.
For further details, please watch this space!
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The VicTESOL early childhood and education series will focus on families and communities as a resource for growing and strengthening the development of bi/multilingual children. Registrations are now open for this 2021 professional learning opportunity!
Luke Treadwell & Tanja Rykovska, AMES Australia
Wednesday 18 November, 4:00-5:30pm AEDT
Online Event
This workshop was based on the premise that digital literacy is vital for living, learning, and working in contemporary Australian society and therefore needs to be a key feature as both a support and an outcome of any relevant EAL program. The session detailed the experience and learnings of one such program that was specifically designed (pre-COVID) to engage low level EAL learners in online learning. The session covered the basic course design principles of our EAL online courses, the strategies developed to engage and support the learners and their challenges and achievements learning in an online environment. Luke and Tanja’s presentation was followed by Q&A and small group discussion.
Luke Treadwell is a senior teacher with many years of program and proect management in AMES. Luke has taught EAL students for many years across many programs and has recently worked extensively with ASMES online learning program.
Tanja Rykovska is an EAL teacher with extensive experience teaching English, designing and delivering EAL programs in various settings and for diverse cohorts. She has a special interest in technology in language learning and has integrated technology in her teaching throughout her career. She has been involved in AMES online learning initiative since 2015.
If you want to find out more, here is the link to the AMES Course Taster: https://ames-sandbox.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=51
At the AGM we will hear about VicTESOL’s achievements from the last year, share in awarding the 2020 VicTESOL Research Grant to the successful applicants and hear from the guest speaker, Ester de Jong, Director of the School of Teaching and Learning and Professor in ESOL/Bilingual Education, University of Florida.
RSVP by 26th November 2020
Please email victesol [at] victesol.vic.edu.au to request:
2019 & 2020 VicTESOL members are able to access the 2019 VicTESOL AGM Draft Minutes by logging on to the VicTESOL website and clicking here.
Please note: all nomination and proxy forms must be emailed to VicTESOL by 5pm, 26th November 2020.
