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 […]
Yan Yao Choong, Department of Education and Training Wednesday 12 August, 4:00-5:00pm Free Webinar - Click here to register The Literacy Teaching Toolkit provides practical advice and high impact teaching practices to improve student outcomes in reading, writing and speaking and listening. In 2019, the Foundation to Level 6 Literacy Teaching Toolkit (F-6 Toolkit) was […]
Dr Jenny Barnett Tuesday 8 September, 4-5pm Free Online Webinar - Click here to register! If you expect to work with EAL/D learners in your teaching career, then you will want to be familiar with the EALD Elaborations of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. In this webinar, Jenny will take you through some of […]
Stories are powerful. They shape the way we think about the world, ourselves and each other. The stories we choose to present to students at school, as teachers and librarians, profoundly affect how students perceive the world and their place in it. We want to help you choose culturally diverse resources that reflect students’ diverse […]
Stories are powerful. They shape the way we think about the world, ourselves and each other. The stories we choose to present to students at school, as teachers and librarians, profoundly affect how students perceive the world and their place in it. We want to help you choose culturally diverse resources that reflect students’ diverse […]
Online Presentations and Discussion Rooms Tuesday 6 October, 4-5:30 pm Naomi Weiler, Stephanie Georgiou, and Maria Papasotiriou Are you preparing students for the VCE EAL exam? Get ideas and strategies from three experienced EAL teachers and join us afterwards for small group discussions. Presenters Stephanie Georgiou has more than 18 years of experience in teaching […]
Stories are powerful. They shape the way we think about the world, ourselves and each other. The stories we choose to present to students at school, as teachers and librarians, profoundly affect how students perceive the world and their place in it. We want to help you choose culturally diverse resources that reflect students’ diverse […]
*This event was previously advertised as a face-to-face event. Due to COVID-19, it is now an online event.* Thursday 15 October, 5-6pm Free online event Join us for an hour of resource sharing and networking! In this session, Jenny Peck will take you through how to access the amazing resources available through LMERC and answer […]
