Enacting translation and translanguaging collaboratively between teachers and learners for knowledge building

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Online Webinar Thursday 24 March, 4:30-5:30 pm Translanguaging has been increasingly valued as a language pedagogy that helps multilingual learners use their existing resources for linguistic, cognitive, and identity development. In many EAL classrooms, teachers are beginning to implement translanguaging by encouraging learners to use home languages and dictionaries for translation. While such practices enable learners to activate […]

$10.00 – $30.00

Languages in Early Childhood Education: Launch of special TESOL in Context edition

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We invite you to this special event which is a launch of a special edition of TESOL in Context that focuses on Early Childhood Education. The papers address important questions about the place of home languages in early childhood contexts, and focus on plurilingual pedagogy in early childhood education, mothers as first teachers in remote […]

Free

Immigration Museum and VicTESOL: Integrating culture and language for EAL learners

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*Online Event* Thursday 19 May, 4-5pm Explore Immigration Museum's digital resources and content that can expand learning experiences for EAL learners. Museum resources include migration stories, cultural stories, and objects, timelines and personal stories investigating a myriad of Australian identities. This professional learning program is designed for EAL and classroom teachers. Resources can be adapted […]

Free – $40.00

Primary EAL Assessment for New Arrivals

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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 […]

$10.00 – $30.00

Supporting young people from a refugee background in the education system

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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 […]

Free

EAL Frameworks 101 (2): How to approach delivery and assessment of a group of units

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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 […]

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Moving Forward with the ACTA National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools

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ACTA has launched its National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools, calling for national ‘build back better’ reform of specialist provision for English language learners in schools ahead of the Federal Election. The plan addresses longstanding and now pressing national policy issues that have affected the quality of English language […]

Free

Moving Forward with the ACTA National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools – Interest Groups

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ACTA has launched its National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools, calling for national ‘build back better’ reform of specialist provision for English language learners in schools ahead of the Federal Election. The plan addresses longstanding and now pressing national policy issues that have affected the quality of English language […]

Free

Colony to Nation for EAL teaching and learning (NGV Resourcing Event 1)  

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Experience teaching and learning in the Gallery through NGV’s Colony to Nation resources for English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners. Connect virtually with an NGV Educator at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia to view and discuss some of the artworks that appear in the resources, and practice strategies for engaging your students with art at the Gallery […]

Free