Speakers will include Melanie Reynolds - RMIT Alexandra Vardis - Melbourne Polytechnic Kellie Mason & David Kezilas - Dandenong High School Audience: EAL teachers working with 15+yo learners in secondary schools. To book please click here Topics & Presenter Information Presentations focus  on EAL students transitioning from  school to post school options. Speakers will present successful programs […]

Presenters Amalia Fawcett - Centre for Multicultural Youth Hanya Senjov - Mercy Connect Program,  Catholic Education Office Dr Kirsten Hutchison - Deakin University Audience: Teachers at all levels and sectors and anyone else working with multicultural and EAL young people. To book please click here Session Overview This session will provide an opportunity to hear from 3 speakers […]

For full details about the VicTESOL Symposium please click here. Tickets To purchase VicTESOL Member priced tickets, please log in using your membership details. If you are not a member, but would like to join, please click here. Please Note: if you purchase a VicTESOL Membership with your Symposium tickets, you will receive the member rate of $130. We look forward to […]

A twilight session focusing on strategies to assist EAL teachers and newly arrived students with transitions from English Language schools and centres into mainstream education. Speakers Penny Newton, Transition Officer at Blackburn English Language School Lynne Dyer, EAL Leader at Melba College   There will be time for questions and discussion.  

Speakers: Carmel Davies & Sharon Duff In this workshop Sharon Duff and Carmel Davies (urbanlyrebirds.com) will give teachers strategies on using song to improve students' listening skills - macroskills for meaning and comprehension as well as nuanced deeper listening for persuasion and attitudes. Tasks will have broad application, but will focus on themes of identity and […]

Speaker: Dr Kathryn Hill (La Trobe University, Learning & Teaching) This workshop is designed to help teachers think about their current feedback practices and how they might be improved. It will cover what's different about classroom-based assessment, the role of feedback in promoting learning, good feedback practice & principles, and some tools for thinking about common feedback […]

One of the highlights of the VicTESOL calendar. This year we will be given a private tour of the Identity exhibition at the Immigration Museum, by a member of the education department of Museums Victoria. We will also be inaugurating the new VicTESOL research in the field grant that links academics to organisations in the […]

The webinar will provide an overview of the TEAL (Tools for enhancing assessment literacy of Teachers of English as an Additional Language) online resources for EAL and mainstream teachers who are new to the resource, or would like a refresher to reacquaint themselves to the resource. Webinar login details Zoom Zoom 3.0 or higher is […]