EAL Framework 101 Session 3: Teaching a Unit (Adult sector)

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Your manager has just allocated you a unit of competency from the Victorian EAL Framework. What do you do next? Following on from Session 1 on unpacking the curriculum and the structure of a unit and Session 2 on designing a whole program, this session will focus on what happens in the classroom. Come and learn from your […]

Free

EAL Meet & Teach with NGV (NGV Resourcing Event 2)

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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 […]

Free

ACTA International Conference – Pushing the Boundaries

Hilton Hotel, Brisbane Queensland, Australia

The future-oriented seventh biennial ACTA Conference, Pushing the Boundaries, being held in Brisbane in 2022 (date to be confirmed), in the heart of Brisbane at the Hilton Hotel. Conference presentations will focus on the theme, Pushing the Boundaries, and speakers will highlight innovations in the theory and practice of teaching English to speakers of other languages […]

AMEP Virtual Roadshow – Resources for the EAL Framework

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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 […]

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Challenges and possibilities in using The Victorian Curriculum F-10: EAL in a Year 7 science unit: A focus on word knowledge.

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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 […]

$10.00 – $30.00

2022 VicTESOL Symposium

Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership 603-615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2022 VicTESOL Symposium: Professional Identity in TESOL-Finding the Common Ground Friday 11 November 2022 from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm How much do language educators working in schools, Further Education (FE), not-for-profit organisations and universities really have in common? Can we really talk about the professional identity of teachers and their freedom for manoeuvre without […]

$130.00 – $170.00

ACTA Early Childhood Principles – Working Party

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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, […]

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Developing English through an understanding of how languages work

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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 […]

$10.00 – $30.00

The new VCE English and EAL study design 

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Our upcoming event with Kellie Heintz from the VCAA will address many of the questions about the new VCE EAL study design asked in the recent VicTESOL survey of teachers. This presentation will focus on the implementation of VCE units 1 and 2 EAL in 2023. New aspects of the study will be unpacked, with […]

$10.00 – $30.00

EAL Writing Strategies in a Primary Setting

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EAL Writing Strategies in a Primary Setting Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 4:00pm - 5:00pm, Online ‘Writing is central to EAL/D students’ learning at school. Learning writing is a platform for understanding and development of language structure, text and academic content. It gives students the opportunity to express themselves, and also to analyse and understand texts […]

$10.00 – $30.00