All-language Resources
Generic resources that may be useful for the teaching and learning of all languages.
Strategies for understanding and producing oral language in the teaching of Greek as a heritage and/or a foreign language: Development practices and teaching methods
Provider: Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education (SICLE)
Description:
In this workshop, participants will explore effective practices and pedagogical recommendations for teaching oral language and strategies to best prepare students for the Certificate of Attainment in Greek exams. To be held via Zoom on Tuesday 2nd April.
Start date: 12-03-2024
End date: 02-04-2024
Semester 1, 2024 Community Languages Teaching Program (Advanced)
Provider: Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education
Description:
The Community Languages Teaching – Advanced Program is a free 60-hour program for community languages teachers in NSW who have completed the Community Languages Teaching Program Foundation or equivalent.
PROGRAM DATES FOR SEMESTER 1, 2024
Sunday face to face teaching, 10 am – 4 pm, 10 March – 16 June 2024 (not including school holidays).
Location: Room 459, Education Building (A35), University of Sydney.
The program will help you to:
- plan units of work
- develop advanced teaching skills
- develop classroom management skills
- use technology in the classroom
- mentor other teachers
For the assessment, you will create and teach a unit of work, together with its resources, and then present to other teachers in the program.
Enquiries email: sicle.curriculum@sydney.edu.au
Applications closed 11.30 pm Sunday 25 February, 2024
REGISTER HERE FOR ADVANCED PROGRAM - SEMESTER 1, 2024
Start date: 10-03-2024
End date: 16-06-2024
Semester 1, 2024 Community Languages Teaching Program (Foundation)
Provider: Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education
Description:
The Community Languages Teaching – Foundation Program is a 60-contact-hour professional-learning program for teachers working in Government-funded Community Languages Schools.
Thursday program: 5 - 8pm, Thursday 22 February – Thursday 27 June (not including school holidays). Seven face-to-face and 10 Zoom sessions.
Sunday program: Sunday: 9am - 4pm, 10 March – Sunday 2 June (not including school holidays). All classes are face-to-face teaching.
Distance Online: 17 weeks commencing Sunday 18 February – 30 June (not including school holidays). Includes three compulsory face-to-face workshops at Sydney Uni.
The program will help you to:
- understand how children learn and develop languages and how to teach them
- engage and interest students in maintaining and extending their language and cultural abilities
- plan lessons and assess student learning
- develop resources and teaching activities that work with a range of students
The Foundation Program includes a visit to a mainstream school to observe teaching. This classroom learning is interactive and practical, giving you confidence and new ideas for working with young children, teenagers, and adults. A New South Wales Working with Children Check is a mandatory requirement for this activity. Assessment is practical and involves getting to know your students, creating teaching resources, developing behaviour management strategies, and preparing classroom activities. To pass the program, you must attend at least 80% of the teaching sessions, engage in classroom and online discussion, submit and pass four assignments, attend language specific sessions, and complete a half day observation at a day school.
Enquiries email: Anabel.beaucage@sydney.edu.au
Applications close 11.30 pm Sunday 21 January 2024
REGISTER HERE FOR FOUNDATION PROGRAM - SEMESTER 1, 2024
Start date: No-start-date
End date: No-end-date
Global Citizenship and Multilingual Competences teacher modules
Provider: The Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
Description:
This comprehensive free self-paced online professional learning resource consists of five units to empower teachers of all subjects to integrate Global Citizenship Education (GCE) goals with a plurilingual approach into their regular teaching in a sustainable and context-sensitve way. Unit 4 - " Recognising diversity - towards inclusive, multilingual practices in secondary classrooms " may be of particular interest to languages educators. This course includes many useful resources, tips for teachers and self-reflection tasks.
Start date: No-start-date
End date: No-end-date
Small HL (Heritage Language) Teaching
Provider: The Heritage Language Exchange
Description: A series of short instructional videos demonstrating "small but powerful" modifications to teaching practices that can greatly improve learning. This video series features bite-sized strategies for improving the teaching of Heritage Languages (Community Languages).
Start date: No-start-date
End date: No-end-date
Teaching Arabic using the NSW K-10 Modern Languages Syllabus
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
An overview of the key elements of the NSW K-10 Modern Langauages Syllabus for teachers of Arabic. This presentation was developed and delivered by Enaam Darido, SICLE Arabic Project Officer. The presentation is in English and Arabic.
Sample Units of Work for Stage 4
Year group: 7-10
Description:
A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing topics and concepts such as: Travel, My Kitchen Rules and Fantasy epics (Urdu). Units include language structures, suggested tasks and links to resources.
Sample Units of Work for Stage 3 (2)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing topics and concepts such as: My heritage, Healthy eating, Seasons and Australian animals.
Sample Units of Work for Stage 2 (2)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing topics and concepts such as: Celebrations, School, Travel and Weather.
Sample Units of Work for Stage 1 (2)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing topics and concepts such as: Health, Maths, Time, Shopping and Cooking.
Sample Units of Work for Early Stage 1 (2)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing topics such as: Identity, Storytelling, Telling the time and Farm animals.
Sample Units of Work for Stage 3 (1)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing themes such as: Travel and Tourism, Cultural Connections, Pandemics, The Environment and Sustainability, Influencers and Comparing Cultures.
Sample Units of Work for Stage 2 (1)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing themes such as: Travel, Sport, Time, Weather, Indigenous Connections, Our bodies and The Environment.
Sample Units of Work for Stage 1 (1)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing themes such as: Eating habits, Shopping, Leisure and entertainment, Seasons, Indigenous perspectives, School life, Fables, Identity and body image.
Sample Units of Work for Early Stage 1 (1)
Year group: ES1-6
Description: A range of sample Units of Work across languages, addressing themes such as: Identity, Storytelling, Celebrations and Culture, The things we use everyday, Our Needs and Introductions.
Programming advice
Year group: ES1-12
Description: Advice on how to develop a scope and sequence (yearly overview) and program a unit of work with links to sample units. This advice is provided by NESA.
Sample Scope and Sequence template
Year group: ES1-12
Description: A simple template that can be used to develop a term/year overview of language learning for each stage.
Unit of Work planning tool
Year group: ES1-12
Description: This planning tool can be used to develop an outline of a Unit of Work. It can be modified to suit your teaching context.
Sample Evaluation template
Year group: ES1-12
Description: An easy to use template that can be used to evaluate a sequence of lessons of a Unit of Work. This template can be modified to suit your teaching context.
Project-Based Learning: Background and Instructional Strategies
Year group: ES1-12
Description: Project-based learning (PBL) which includes curriculum, instructional materials, classroom activities, and assessment of learning is a proficiency-oriented approach to using and learning a language that supports language use in the real world. The Coalition of Community-based Heritage languages schools (USA) provide a handbook and a brief video by Dr. Maria Carreira (25 minutes long) that describe the key components of project-based learning, and a document with instructional strategies that teachers in community-based schools can use.
Sample learning sequences
Year group: ES1-6
Description:
Sample learning sequences on the following topics: My favourite toy, My dream home, About me, Caring for the environment. These resources are samples that teachers may adapt to their language specific area to meet the needs of their students and local contexts.
Sample Unit of Work planning proforma
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Sample programming template that can be used for a Unit of Work or a sequence of lessons. Template can be modified to suit different teaching contexts.
Languages Matter
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Information for parents and teachers on importance of home languages; reasons for maintaining the home language; advantages for children who use two languages and how two languages work together. Downloadable brochures available in 21 languages.
Presentations from Chinese Professional Learning Day 25.9.21 (Part 2)
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Presentations from Chinese Professional Learning Day held online on 25th September, 2021 including: Classroom management strategies, theme-based teaching, programming approaches, multi-level teaching and innovative ways to teach characters.
Presentations from Chinese Professional Learning Day - 25.9.21 (Part 1)
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Presentations from Chinese Professional Learning Day held online on 25th September, 2021 including: Programming approaches, assessment strategies, differentiation, lesson structuring, ICT tools and more.
Free Digital Reading Resources for Multilingual Learners
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Multilingual Reading Resources is created to help multilingual learners with their reading skills, offering a huge variety of books and stories in many different languages from around the world.
Storybooks Canada - Online stories in many languages
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Storybooks Canada is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. Part of the Global Storybooks project, it makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada, including: Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish and Turkish. Share and enjoy!
Folk Tales in 31 languages
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
UK's Kids Out organisation has created this website where you can find famous Folk Tales from different countries in 31 languages and use them to help connect your students to their rich heritage. Appropriate for intermediate and advanced level students.
Assessment strategies and resources
Year group: ES1-6
Description:
These resources and documents have been developed to support primary language teachers in their use of evidence-based assessment practices, including the five elements of effective assessment practice. By embedding strategies such as these throughout the teaching and learning cycle, language teachers ensure that assessment practices are linked to the learning experiences of students
Games4Esl- A Website that caters for every teacher
Year group: ES1-12
Description: A website full of ideas and activities for teaching English as an additional language. This direct link contains games templates that can be adapted to teach all languages. These games would suit Beginner and Intermediate language students.
Activity Choice Boards
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Sample of activity choice boards as a strategy to differentiate in a mixed level language class.
Explore 6 apps for language learning
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
Students might like to create text in language using these apps. Explore how to use these apps via the QR codes.
Apps and online resources for language teaching and learning
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
List of effective ICT tools and websites for languages teaching.
Independent language activities
Year group: ES1-6
Description:
These independent language activities are designed to be completed when students are learning from home. They can also be adapted and given as homework over a term or set as independent classwork. Some activities may require some parental or guardian support. Developed by NSW Department of Education.