April Edwards, La Trobe University Wednesday 25 March, 5:00-6:30pm ***This event will now be offered as an online webinar in the interest of public health safety. Date and time remain unchanged.*** Listening skills are ones we all employ, both passively and actively, but how do we teach and evaluate them as part of VCE EAL […]

Victoria Butterfield, Voula MacKenzie, Heena Sharma, Panayiota Kai The Virtual EAL New Arrivals Program of the Victorian School of Languages (VSL) Tuesday 28 April, 4-5pm Online Webinar Are you faced with the challenge of teaching your EAL students online during the Covid-19 crisis? This session will provide practical strategies for teaching EAL online, followed by […]

Online discussion forum and mini-presentations  Tuesday 5 May, 4-5:30pm VicTESOL is providing an online space for teachers to come together to discuss their experience of teaching and supporting EAL students remotely during the COVID-19 crisis. The session will begin with a number of mini-presentations with presenters sharing what they have implemented so far and their […]

Online discussion forum and mini-presentations Thursday 7 May, 4-5:30pm  *Due to popular demand, VicTESOL is running a second session of this professional learning event.* VicTESOL is providing an online space for teachers to come together to discuss their experience of teaching and supporting EAL students remotely during the COVID-19 crisis. The session will begin with […]

Skye Playsted Thursday 14 May, 4-5pm Online Webinar When we think of the term ‘culture’, it can be easy to focus on concrete elements such as art, music, clothing or food. However, these visible aspects are only the tip of the cultural iceberg (Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2011). Deeper cultural assumptions are hidden from view and […]

Tuesday June 2, 4:00 - 5:30pm Free online event Are you a Unit 3&4 VCE EAL teacher? Do you want to swap teaching ideas with teachers from other schools on the upcoming Reading and Comparing Texts unit? VicTESOL is offering the opportunity for teachers to meet and discuss this unit online! In this session, you […]

Ruth Hibburt and Geelong English Language Centre (GELC) teachers Tuesday 23 June, 3:45-4:45pm Online Event This session is a practical workshop to assist teachers to modify programs and scaffold learning to assist EAL students to access the Victorian Curriculum across all subject areas. Participants will learn about engaging EAL learners, scaffolding essential vocabulary and making […]

Thursday 16 July, 3:45-4:30pm Free online discussion rooms - *Registrations have now closed for this event* VicTESOL is again offering a space for teachers of EAL students to discuss remote learning. This time the focus is the sharing of EAL teaching strategies to meet the needs of learners through online platforms. Participants will be grouped […]

Julia Lippold, Lauriston Girls School Thursday 30 July, 3:45-5:15 pm Online Webinar *LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: Registrations close 2pm Thursday 30 July* Teaching grammar can be fraught with challenges. In the EAL setting, students can find understanding syntactical metalanguage as well as abstract concepts challenging. So how do we make grammar accessible to EAL students? […]

Dr Sue Ollerhead, Macquarie University Wednesday 5 August, 4-5pm Online Webinar *LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 2PM TOMORROW!* In this workshop, Sue will discuss the important role that students' home languages play in their classroom learning. She will explore the rationale for using translanguaging as a pedagogical approach and present some key classroom translanguaging […]