Professional Learning
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
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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
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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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