All-language Resources
Generic resources that may be useful for the teaching and learning of all languages.
Semester 2, 2025 Community Languages Teaching Program (Advanced)
Provider: Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education
Description:
The advanced program is a 60-hour program for community language school teachers who are currently teaching in a NSW community language school and who have completed the SICLE Community Languages Teaching Program – Foundation or equivalent.
This program will help you to:
- plan units of work
- develop advanced teaching skills
- use technology in the classroom
- mentor other teachers.
The course runs from Sunday 17th August until Sunday 30th November 10am-4pm (with some Sundays off and not including school holidays). All classes are face-to-face at The University of Sydney.
To pass the program, you must attend at least 80% of the teaching sessions, actively participate in class activities, submit and pass all assignments
Enquiries email: anabel.beaucage@sydney.edu.au
Application closes 11.30 pm Sunday 22 June 2025
Start date: 17-08-2025
End date: 30-11-2025
Semester 2, 2025 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 24 July – Thursday 27 November (not including school holidays). Bankstown has 7 face-to-face and 10 Zoom sessions. Chatswood has 9 face-to-face and 8 Zoom sessions.
Sunday program: Sunday: 10am - 4pm, 17 August – Sunday 9 November (not including school holidays). All classes are face-to-face teaching.
Distance online: 17 weeks commencing Sunday 20 July – 30 November (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 11.30pm Sunday 22 June 2025
REGISTER HERE FOR FOUNDATION PROGRAM - SEMESTER 2, 2025
Start date: 24-07-2025
End date: 30-11-2025
2025 SICLE Academic Leadership Program
Provider: Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education
Description:
The Academic Leadership program is a 15-hour program for community language school principals, aspiring principals and members of school management committees. Participants will learn how best to support and monitor teachers, how to support new teachers and how to retain teachers. Participants will also learn mentoring and coaching skills. The program includes school visits and time with experienced community school principals as mentors.
Program dates:
Sunday September 14th, September 21st - 9:30 am - 4 pm at Sydney University
Thursday October 30th – 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm via Zoom
Program venue:
Face-to-face classes: Education Building A35, Sydney University.
This program consists of a mixed of face-to-face and zoom classes.
To pass the program, you must attend at least 80% of the teaching sessions, actively participate in class activities, submit and pass the assessment task.
Enquiries email: anabel.beaucage@sydney.edu.au
Applications closes 11.30 pm Sunday 10th August, 2025
Start date: 27-03-2025
End date: 10-08-2025
2025 SICLE Curriculum Leadership Program
Provider: Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education
Description:
The Curriculum Leadership program is a 15-hour program for community language school teachers who have completed the SICLE Advanced professional learning program. Participants will learn about different language teaching approaches, curriculum planning, behaviour management, assessment, feedback, and reporting.
The assessment task is the development of a 2-year scope and sequence for your school.
Program dates:
Sunday August 10th - 9:30 am - 4 pm at Sydney University
Sunday August 17th – 10 am – 3:30 pm at Sydney University
Thursday August 21st, August 28th – 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm via Zoom
Program venue:
Face-to-face classes: Education Building A35, Sydney University.
This program consists of a mixed of face-to-face and zoom classes.
To pass the program, you must attend at least 80% of the teaching sessions, actively participate in class activities, submit and pass the assessment task.
Enquiries email: anabel.beaucage@sydney.edu.au
Applications closes 11.30 pm Sunday 13th July, 2025
Start date: 27-03-2025
End date: 13-07-2025
Semester 1, 2025 Community Languages Teaching Program (Foundation)
Provider: Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education
Description:
The Community Languages Teach – Foundation Program is a 60-contact-hour professional-learning program for teachers working in Government-funded Community Languages Schools.
Thursday program: 5 - 8pm, Thursday 20 February – Thursday 26 June (not including school holidays). Bankstown has 7 face-to-face and 10 Zoom sessions. Chatswood has 9 face-to-face and 8 Zoom sessions.
Sunday program: Sunday: 10am - 4pm, 2 March – Sunday 25 May (not including school holidays). All classes are face-to-face teaching.
Distance online: 17 weeks commencing Sunday 16 February – 29 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 11.30pm Thursday 30 January 2025
REGISTER HERE FOR FOUNDATION PROGRAM - SEMESTER 1, 2025
Start date: No-start-date
End date: No-end-date
Semester 1, 2025 Community Languages Teaching Program (Advanced)
Provider: Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education
Description:
The advanced program is a 60-hour program for community language school teachers who are currently teaching in a NSW community language school and who have completed the SICLE Community Languages Teaching Program – Foundation or equivalent.
This program will help you to:
- plan units of work
- develop advanced teaching skills
- use technology in the classroom
- mentor other teachers.
The course runs from Sunday 2nd March until Sunday 15th June 10am-4pm (not including school holidays). All classes are face-to-face at The University of Sydney.
To pass the program, you must attend at least 80% of the teaching sessions, actively participate in class activities, submit and pass all assignments.
Enquiries email: anabel.beaucage@sydney.edu.au
Application closes 11.30 pm Sunday 16 February 2025
Start date: No-start-date
End date: No-end-date
Home/Heritage/Community Languages
Provider: Association for Language Learning (ALL) and the British Council
Description:
This page of the Association for Language Learning (ALL) website focusses on resources and support for the teaching of Community/Heritage languages. It includes advocacy resources and recordings of online professional learning events on topics including: differentiation, motivation in CL classrooms, and raising the profile of Community languages.
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.
Languages Resources K-6
Year group: ES1-6
Description:
Sample units of work, lesson sequences, online readers, marking rubrics and programmig proformas for a range of languages across Stages ES1-3.
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.
The Languages Gateway
Year group: ES1-12
Description:
This website is the UK's portal for Languages. There are resources for teachers, students, school leaders, parents and researchers. Resources can be filtered by content, language, stage of schooling and target audience. New resources are continually being added to this site.
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.
Languages Resources K-6
Year group: ES1-6
Description:
Sample units of work, lesson sequences, online readers, marking rubrics and programmig proformas for a range of languages across Stages ES1-3.
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.