VicTESOL Professional Learning

In this professional learning session, Barbara and Rebekah will share some of the key assessment practices in their new arrival setting. They will demonstrate how their core diagnostic and formative assessments help determine students’ English proficiency levels on the EAL Reporting Resource. Participants will engage in moderation of EAL student writing, discuss evidence of student […]

Join us online for a session with presenters from Foundation House and the Refugee Minor Program. Within the first part of this event, Foundation House, the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and Trauma, will address how we can support newly-arrived Afghan students and families as they settle in Victoria and enrol in language, primary […]

Following on from the highly popular session EAL Frameworks 101 in Term 1, VicTESOL is pleased to schedule a second session for teachers and managers new to using the Victorian EAL Framework curriculum. This event will include a speakers who will share how they plan for, design, deliver and assess a cluster of units. Speakers will represent organisations experienced in […]

Looking for ways to connect with fellow EAL teachers and make art more accessible and enriching for your students? Join an NGV Educator for a virtual and interactive exploration of works in the Gallery’s International Collection. Participate in a range of Gallery based teaching and learning activities, share your expertise and collaborate with other EAL […]

LWA will showcase with VicTESOL, a suite of newly developed resources, funded by the Department of Home Affairs and aligned to the new AMEP national curriculum, featuring a pre-launch look at: a new suite of multi-modal booklets for EAL learners with emerging literacies who have little or no prior educational experience; the new AMEPOnline website; a publicly […]

In this webinar we present the results of an investigation of linguistically responsive vocabulary teaching in a Year 7 science class. We discuss how an EAL and science teacher worked together to apply the whole school’s Three Tiers approach to literacy across the curriculum with reference to the sub-strand word knowledge as one feature of […]

In this presentation, presenters from Lexis Education will explore ways of speeding up our EAL students’ learning of English and learning in English through a focus on how languages work to make meaning. This approach draws on a metalanguage (a language for talking about language) for English, which can be equally drawn on to contrast […]