Students’ Agency Towards New Pedagogical Horizons for Their Linguistic Journey
Language learning is a personal and empowering linguistic journey, where students are the drivers navigating through new territories of language acquisition. In my language classroom, I love using travel metaphors to engage students, inviting them to take control of their own high-speed train, cars or planes. This journey is self-directed, with students becoming more responsible […]
Explore the Power of Brain Breaks
Led by an experienced language educator, this session will delve into the importance of incorporating short, energising activities to promote focus, engagement, and retention among young learners. Participants will discover a variety of fun and effective brain break strategies that can be used in the Languages classroom or wider school environment. From quick language games […]
Literacy through Languages
Attend this session to hear how Languages teachers have trialed new literacy strategies in their classrooms through an MLTAV supported Action Research project. These projects aim to have an impact on student learning and also on aligning English and TL literacy strategies.
Exploring Language Through Storytelling
For over 20 years, Cultural Infusion has been delivering enriching cultural education workshops to schools across Australia. Our diverse range of workshops represents more than 50 distinct language groups, supporting students’ Language studies by incorporating language learning through the arts. Here, we’ll showcase our approach with an example: the engaging Greek Storytelling workshop.
Gender Inclusive Project
In this workshop, Jenny Jeffrey, a secondary school French teacher, will share insights from her action research project on integrating gender-just pedagogies into her teaching practice. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore key principles and practical strategies for fostering a more inclusive language classroom at any level.
Bilingual Schools 2024-2026: Trends, Horizons & Opportunities (Part 1)
This workshop explores examples of how teachers and schools outside Australia are strengthening bilingual programs through curricula innovation, collaboration and communication. Note: this is a 90-minute session (Workshop 4 & 5)
AI for Languages Teaching: Privacy, Policy and Practical Tools
In my workshop I will be touching on current policies, privacy awareness as well as practical examples of tools that I use in my everyday teaching and planning such as LLMs, Text to Speech and Text to Image generators.
Introducing Victorian Curriculum F-10 Version 2
In this session, the VCAA Languages Unit will provide a high-level overview of the changes that have been made in the Victorian Curriculum F-10 for the 9 Phase 1 and 2 languages (Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek and Spanish). This will include a summary of the structure of the revised Curriculum.
