Professional Learning
Foundation Program - Semester 2, 2026
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 23 July – Thursday 26 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.
*Thursday classes are subject to sufficient registration numbers
Sunday program: Sunday: 10am - 4pm, 16 August – Sunday 8 November (not including school holidays). All classes are face-to-face teaching at Sydney University.
Distance Online Synchronous: 17 weeks commencing Sunday 19 July – 22 November (not including school holidays). Please note, the Distance class is offered synchronous online from 9 am – 12 pm, and includes three compulsory face-to-face workshops at Sydney University (19th July, 20th Sep, 22nd Nov) from 9 am – 12 pm.
Depending on numbers, we can offer this in Newcastle, Albury and Sydney
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 28 June 2026
REGISTER HERE FOR FOUNDATION PROGRAM - SEMESTER 2, 2026
Start date: 19-07-2026
End date: 23-11-2026
Advanced Program - Semester 2, 2026
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 August until Sunday 6th December 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 5 July 2026
REGISTER HERE FOR ADVANCED PROGRAM - SEMESTER 2, 2026
Start date: 02-08-2026
End date: 06-12-2026
2026 Academic Leadership Program
Provider: Sydney Institute of 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 13th and September 20th from 9:30 am – 4 pm at Sydney University
Thursday October 29th from 6 pm – 9 pm online via Zoom
Program venue: This program will be held face to face on Sunday 13th September and Sunday 20th September at Sydney University in the Education Building, A35 and online via zoom on Thursday 29th October
Enquiries email: anabel.beaucage@sydney.edu.au
Application closes 11.30 pm Sunday 16th August 2026
Start date: 13-09-2026
End date: 20-09-2026
2026 Curriculum Leadership Program
Provider: Sydney Institute of 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 9th August 9:30 am - 4 pm at Sydney University and Sunday 16th August 10 am - 3:30 pm at Sydney University.
Thursday 20st August and 27th August 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm online via zoom
Program venue: This program will be held face to face on Sunday 9th August and Sunday 16th August at Sydney University in the Education Building, A35 and via zoom on Thursday 20st August and 27th August.
Enquiries email: anabel.beaucage@sydney.edu.au
Application closes 11.30 pm Sunday 5th July 2026
Start date: 09-08-2026
End date: 27-08-2026
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.
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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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