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 […]

Praxis, practical wisdom, practical intelligence or ‘history-making action’ (Kemmis 2010) requires educators to see beyond their immediate teaching practices and think, what benefits the individual learner as well as the wider society now and in the future? A praxis-oriented educator aims to utilize all available knowledge and skills to fulfil the double purpose of education: […]

Presenters: Jacqueline Moore, Deb Icely A social event for teachers to discuss VCE EAL and ask questions of a VCAA representative. It will also be a chance to network with other VCE EAL teachers. Food and drinks will be available for purchase from the bar.

Presenters: Margaret Corrigan & Liz Keenan Margaret is Manager of Carringbush Adult Education in Richmond and has worked for many years in a range of educational settings in Australia and Asia-Pacific. She is a current Fellow of the International Specialised Skills Institute and has recently returned from a trip to North America where she investigated models […]

Resourcing, Stimulating and Supporting EAL in Victoria Unfortunately due to lack of registrations VicTESOL has not been able to make the Bendigo symposium viable to run in 2017. VicTESOL will continue to endeavour to provide professional learning opportunities to EAL practitioners in rural and regional areas. VicTESOL encourages you to take up the opportunity to […]

Presenter: Dr Jenny Miller Although there is a growing awareness of the difficulties faced by EAL students in the mainstream, pedagogical and curriculum reforms have been based primarily on monolingual perspectives. The presenter makes a case for a closer understanding of aspects of second language acquisition (SLA) principles, and particularly vocabulary in context. Although the […]