All-language Resources
Generic resources that may be useful for the teaching and learning of all languages.
4th Biannual International CLIL Conference 2023: Sustainability, Pedagogy and Social Justice
Provider: Sheffield Hallam University
Description:
This conference welcomes researchers, teachers and trainee teachers, teacher educators and policy makers interested in drawing on CLIL and pluriliteracies pedagogies to design learning for diverse learners in bilingual contexts such as CLIL, EAL, immersion, ESP, TESOL, dual or heritage language programmes, in order to increase motivation, confidence, attainment and intercultural awareness. Confirmed guest speakers include:
To be held at Sheffied Hallam University on 16 - 17th June, 2023
Start date: 23-03-2023
End date: 18-06-2023
Community Languages Teaching Program (Advanced) 2023
Provider: Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education
Description:
The Community Languages Teaching – Advanced 2023 program is a 60-contact-hour program for community schools’ teachers in NSW who have completed the Community Languages Teaching Program – Foundation or equivalent.
The program will help you to:
- plan units of work
- develop advanced teaching skills
- use technology in the classroom
- mentor other teachers
For the assessment, your will research a topic of interest such as developing a school program or designing materials and resources that you will then present to other teachers in the program.
Enquiries email: karen.garlan@sydney.edu.au
Applications close 5 pm Thursday 9 March 2023
ENROL HERE FOR ADVANCED IN TERMS 1 AND 2, 2023
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Community Languages Teaching Program (Foundation) Semester 2 2023
Provider: Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education
Description:
The Community Languages Teaching – Foundation Program is a 60-contact-hour professional-learning program for teachers working in NSW Government-funded Community Languages Schools.
TERMS 3 - 4 DATES WILL BE ADVERTISED LATER IN THE YEAR
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 in working with young children, teenagers, and adults. A New South Wales Working with Children Check is a mandatory requirement for this component of the program. Assessment is practical and involves developing resources, behaviour management strategies and classroom activities.
The Foundation Program – Distance Mode is organised as a series of weekly topics via Moodle. This program has some special features. You will cover one topic per week independently with compulsory attendance at three face-to-face Sunday workshops in Sydney to provide additional guidance. You will also have an opportunity to clarify questions on assignments and/or content with optional attendance at four Zoom drop-in sessions. Studying by distance is great because you can plan your time and work at your own pace, but it can be difficult without regular contact, so we want you to keep in touch with your lecturer and with other participants. Teachers applying for the Distance Mode should have a strong understanding of English in preparation for extensive reading and regular contributions to Moodle discussion questions.
Enquiries email: karen.garlan@sydney.edu.au
Click below to submit an expression of interest.
Start date: 23-02-2023
End date: 20-07-2023
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.
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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).
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STARTALK Language Classroom Video Collection
Provider: STARTALK - A program of the National Foreign Language Centre at University of Maryland
Description: This video collection was compiled to provide real-life examples of teachers working to incorporate STARTALK-endorsed effective practices in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Swahili, Turkish and Urdu classroom settings. In these videos, you will find teachers interacting and engaging with students and encouraging them to engage one another. You will see the teachers utilize role playing to make students the center of the learning experience; make use of songs, videos, and other authentic materials in the target language; and, through the use of culturally rich activities such as meals, fully integrate the target language and culture into the classroom.
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Engaging Language Learners
Provider: STARTALK - A program of the National Foreign Language Centre at University of Maryland
Description: A 5 minute video showcasing strategies language teachers implement to engage their students.
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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.