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SUMMARY:Learner Centred Assessment: Portfolio Assessment of the EAL Framework 
DESCRIPTION:Learner Centred Assessment: Portfolio Assessment of the EAL Framework\n11 March 2026 5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT\, Online\nCome to this session to hear Gordon TAFE share how they use portfolio as the main assessment method in their adult EAL program. Learn some insights into how this way of designing assessment tasks allows for a flexible\, holistic\, and learner centred approach to gathering and capturing assessment evidence for the EAL Framework. \nSpeaker\nAngela Di Sciascio is a passionate EAL teacher who has worked in the adult sector for over 25 years. Angela is actively involved in state-wide networks including the EAL Framework Adult Sector Advisory Group and VicTESOL committee. She is currently the President of VicTESOL. Angela recently completed her Masters of Education where her research focused on analysing the knowledge underpinning the Victorian EAL Framework accredited curriculum. \nCost\n$10 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$30 – Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices! \nPlease note: VicTESOL is a not-for-profit organisation. Your registration ensures we can continue to offer high quality professional learning. Registrations are per participant. Purchasing a ticket buys the participant the right to the live online session. Registration is not to be shared with any other person who has not purchased a ticket. 
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/learner-centred-assessment-portfolio-assessment-of-the-eal-framework/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning,VicTESOL Professional Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221114T190000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221114T200000
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SUMMARY:ACTA Early Childhood Principles - Working Party
DESCRIPTION:The ACTA Early Childhood consultancy group has developed a set of six Early Childhood Education Principles as a statement of ACTA’s beliefs and values about home-language-based English as an Additional Language and/or dialect (EAL/D) approach in the Early Childhood years. The ECE Principles encompass all EAL/D learners: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children\, newly arrived\, migrant and Australian born children\, and refugee and refugee-background children\, functioning at all levels of home language and English language proficiency. The ECE Principles bring together the shared thinking of a large group of early childhood practitioners and researchers with EAL/D expertise from across Australia. The intention of the ECE Principles document is to raise awareness of critical issues in home language-based EAL/D education (approaches to ECE programs) for practitioners\, researchers\, policymakers\, key-stakeholders and state\, territory and federal governments. \nThis session is for practitioners and researchers with an interest in the Early Childhood Education field\, and will give an overview of the Principles before providing participants with the opportunity to workshop them. \nYou can view the Principles on the ACTA website here. \n \nThis session is run in collaboration with the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA)
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/acta-early-childhood-consultancy-group-working-party/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning,VicTESOL Professional Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220620T190000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220620T200000
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SUMMARY:Moving Forward with the ACTA National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools
DESCRIPTION:ACTA has launched its National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools\, calling for national ‘build back better’ reform of specialist provision for English language learners in schools ahead of the Federal Election. \nThe plan addresses longstanding and now pressing national policy issues that have affected the quality of English language provision for over 600\,000 English language learners in Australian schools through twelve key actions aligned to the directions and initiatives of the National Schools Reform Agreement. \nRead ACTA’s National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools \nRead ACTA’s media release \nThis event will provide a quick recap of the roadmap\, before moving towards strategies to assist individuals and state/territory TESOL associations spread the important messages of the Roadmap. \nCost \nFree to members and non members of VicTESOL and other ACTA affiliated Associations
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/moving-forward-with-the-acta-national-roadmap-for-english-as-an-additional-language-or-dialect-eal-d-education-in-schools/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning,VicTESOL Professional Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220505T190000
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SUMMARY:Languages in Early Childhood Education: Launch of special TESOL in Context edition
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to this special event which is a launch of a special edition of TESOL in Context that focuses on Early Childhood Education. The papers address important questions about the place of home languages in early childhood contexts\, and focus on plurilingual pedagogy in early childhood education\, mothers as first teachers in remote Indigenous contexts and a bilingual Samoan- English early childhood community kindergarten program in Queensland. \nPresenters \nPaper 1 – Leveraging languages for learning: Incorporating plurilingual pedagogies in early childhood education and care\nDr Caroline Cohrssen is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong and Honorary Fellow\, Melbourne Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne. \nDr Yvette Slaughter is Senior Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education within the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (The University of Melbourne). \nDr Edith Nicolas\, is a linguist and lecturer in early childhood education at The University of Melbourne. \nPaper 2  – Mothers as first teachers: exploring the features of mother- child interactions that support young Aboriginal children’s multilingual learning at playgroup\nJanet Scull is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacy at Monash University. \nDr Jane Page is an Associate Professor and Associate Director\, Pedagogy and Leadership Research in the Research in Effective Education in Early Childhood (REEaCh) Hub at the University of Melbourne. \nPaper 3 – Knowing who you are: Heritage language\, identity and safe space in a bilingual kindergarten\nKerry Taylor-Leech is an applied sociolinguist attached to Griffith University Institute for Educational Research. \nEseta Tualaulelei is a senior lecturer with the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. \n\nThis is a free event for all members and non members of VicTESOL. \n \n  \nwww.tesolincontext.org.au \nJournal of ACTA – Australian Council of TESOL Associations: http://tesol.org.au/publications \nhttps://tinyurl.com/tesolincontext1-26 \nhttps://tinyurl.com/tesolincontext27
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/languages-in-early-childhood-education-launch-of-special-tesol-in-context-edition/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning,VicTESOL Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="VicTESOL":MAILTO:victesol@victesol.vic.edu.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181002
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SUMMARY:ACTA International Conference 2018
DESCRIPTION:The ACTA International Conference will be held in Adelaide\, South Australia from 2 – 5 October\, 2018. \nDriving attention to the reality of local and global mobility for TESOL learners and educators\, this conference will contribute to the ongoing examination of the theories and practices underpinning the TESOL field\, and will project into future directions\, whether as policy\, pedagogy\, materials design\, assessment or community involvement. \nIn the context of increasing mobility through digital technology as well as global unrest and greater recognition of the need for improved outcomes for Indigenous students\, the conference offers an opportunity for a re-examination of the profile of our English language learners and the implications for TESOL practice. \n  \nThe six themes or strands are: \n1.   English language learners in a mobile world \n2.   English language learning and teaching for local and global participation \n3.   Embracing digital technologies in English language learning and teaching \n4.   Assessment from diverse stakeholder perspectives \n5.   English as a medium of instruction (EMI) \n6.   Professional standards and teacher identities in a mobile world \n  \nThrough these themes\, the breadth of mobility will be explored\, ranging from local and global relocations to communication and intercultural negotiation across borders. With this in mind\, the conference will be a space to critically examine ethical and practical challenges for TESOL. \n  \n Click here to book your ticket\n  \nHosted by SATESOL and ACTA.
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/acta-international-conference-2018-adelaide/
LOCATION:Adelaide\, South Australia\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161210
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UID:1749-1480896000-1481327999@victesol.vic.edu.au
SUMMARY:ALAA & ALS Annual Conferences
DESCRIPTION:Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) annual conference\n5-7 December 2016\nAustralian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference\n7-9 December 2016\nMonash University is delighted to host the 2016 annual conferences of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and Australian Linguistic Society (ALS). There will be a combined day on Wednesday the 7th of December that will provide exciting opportunities to engage with current research and other scholars\, fostering dialogue\, reflection\, and new research collaborations. \n 
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/alaa-als-annual-conferences/
LOCATION:Monash University Caulfield Campus\, 900 Dandenong Rd\, Caulfield East\, Victoria\, 3145\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="ALAA & ALS":MAILTO:arts-alaa2016@monash.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160712T093000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160712T163000
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UID:1053-1468315800-1468341000@victesol.vic.edu.au
SUMMARY:Putting TEAL into Practice
DESCRIPTION:A whole school approach to improving the assessment of EAL students\nTools for Enhancing Assessment Literacy for Teachers of EAL (TEAL) is an online resource that brings together a range of tools\, strategies and assessment advice for teachers of EAL learners in P – 10. \nPutting TEAL into Practice is designed to build on and enhance the capacity of schools to teach\, assess and report on the progress of EAL students against the framework of the EAL Continuum. It is recommended that teams of up to three people attend in order to develop and implement a whole school approach to the teaching and assessment of EAL students. \nTEAL was developed by the University of New South Wales for the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET)\, Independent Schools Victoria (ISV) and the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV). \n\n\n\n\nProgram details\n\n\n\nDates\nJuly 12\, August 2 & August 16 (All Tuesdays)\n\n\nTimes\n9.30 am to 4.30 pm\n\n\nLocation\nSunshine Convention Centre\, Victoria University\, 460 Ballarat Rd\, Sunshine\n\n\nCost\nThere is no cost to attend the course\n\n\nTarget audience\nTeachers of EAL students in P – 10. Designed for school teams of up to 3 people\, e.g. EAL teacher\, curriculum leader and classroom teacher.\n\n\nCourse requirements\nAttendance at all 3 days. Completion of readings and in-between session tasks.\n\n\n\nTo book\, email esl@edumail.vic.gov.au or phone 9637 2131 \nBookings close July 5 – Book now! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning outcomes\nBy participating in this course participants will: \nBecome familiar with TEAL\, its rationale and aims\nDevelop a clear understanding of the materials and assessment advice on the website\nReflect on how to incorporate TEAL materials into the assessment of EAL learners\nShare strategies to enable school- based implementation\nHave opportunities to give feedback on the TEAL website. \nCourse outline\nSix sessions across three full days: \n\n\n\nDay 1\nSession 1 – Introduction/Overview of TEAL\nSession 2 – Oral Language \nDay 2\nSession 3 – Writing\nSession 4 – Units of Work \nDay 3\nSession 5 – Reading\nSession 6 – Stages of the Assessment Cycle
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/putting-teal-into-practice/
LOCATION:Sunshine Convention Centre\, Victoria University\,  460 Ballarat Rd\, Sunshine\, Victoria\, 3020\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="DET":MAILTO:esl@edumail.vic.gov.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160411
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SUMMARY:ACTA 2016 Conference ~ DIVERSITY: exchanging ways of being
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URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/acta-2016-conference-diversity-exchanging-ways-of-being/
LOCATION:Pan Pacific and Novotel Perth Langley Hotels\, Perth\, Western Australia\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Affiliated Professional Learning
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