There is still time to plan for your students to be involved in the MLTAWA Competitions in 2020. The Love Learning Languages Poster entries are due by 3rd July. Designing a poster could be a perfect end of term task for some students. Let Me Tell You a Story and Family by My Side entries […]
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Nominations now open for MLTAWA Hilde Dixon Award
The Hilde Dixon Award is the highest honour for language teachers in WA and recognises and congratulates excellence in the teaching of languages and the commitment to language education in the classroom and through involvement in language professional associations in Western Australia. It is also designed to increase the status of the language teaching profession. […]
PL Day Wrap Up
Our latest PL “Looking after yourself, looking after your students” was a wonderful experience. Many thanks to everyone who attended and especially to our presenters who left us with new ideas, techniques and plenty of inspiration. It was also lovely to see a number of people from as close as Willetton and as far as […]
Professional Learning Day: Looking after yourself, looking after your students
Registrations are now open for our Professional Learning Day on Saturday 24th August. We hope you can join us! This Professional Learning Day focuses on you as a teacher and your professional and personal needs. Nathan Harvey will present the key address of the day “Teachers as resources: further advancing ourselves and the profession”. This […]
Term 3 Professional Learning Day
Planning is underway for a motivating and interesting day of professional learning on Saturday 24th August. The workshops will be followed by an opportunity to network, socialise and catch up with colleagues. More details will follow soon.
Successful recipients – MLTAWA Grants to attend the 2019 AFMLTA Conference
It gives us great pleasure to announce the recipients of the MLTAWA grants. First timer grant – Yue Zhao New graduate grant – Megan Delport Open grant – Moya McLauchlan Presenter grant – Laura Bava Each grant recipient will receive $1000. The selection panel for the Presenter grant based their decision on three criteria: Clarity of […]
Survey – Language Teachers
MLTAWA members, Francesca Candaten, Joanne Bell and Erica Letizia are working together on a project for the Key Language Leaders’ Initiative 2019 and, to support their research, they are seeking the assistance of other language teachers. Language teachers in both public and private schools are encouraged to complete a short survey (approximately four minutes). The […]
MLTAWA Pop-Up PL 4 – Let Me Tell You a Story Competition Workshop
To support the 2019 Languages in the Mainstream competitions, particularly the Let Me Tell You a Story, Let Me Tell You in My Language competition for background speakers, the MLTAWA is holding a workshop at the Newman Siena Centre, Doubleview, on Wednesday, 24 April (10.00-11.30am) to support teachers/parents to assist students/children in entering the competition. […]
Professional Learning : Dr Gianfranco Conti
The MLTAWA is proud to host Dr Gianfranco Conti for a day of professional learning on Saturday 11 May 2019. Dr Conti is the co-author of the best-selling guide for language teachers ‘The Language Teacher Toolkit’ and is internationally renowned for his popular award-winning blog ‘The Language Gym’ whose mission is the dissemination of current research […]
MLTAWA Pop-up PL 1 – Small Group Moderation – 11 March
Small Group Moderation ‘Why is it necessary?’ Ever wondered what: are ‘statistical anomolies’? is the difference between a school mark and a moderated school mark? happens to school marks for schools in small group moderation partnership? Then this presentation is for you. It will focus on the School Curriculum and Standards Authority’s requirements for Small […]
