PL Day Wrap Up

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 […]

PL Day Presentations & Resources

PL Day Presentations & Resources

Thank you to the presenters who have kindly made their presentation slides and / or supporting resources available to members. Teachers as resources: further advancing ourselves and the profession – Nathan Harvey Presentation slides Program Standards Reflection Sheet Teacher Standards Reflection Sheet Gianfranco Conti Mini Session: the Highlights – Kate Williams Presentation slides Mindfulness in […]

Professional Learning Day: Looking after yourself, looking after your students

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 […]

Are you ready for Languages Week 2019?

Are you ready for Languages Week 2019?

What are you planning to do? Some ideas from the MLTAWA committee. organise lunchtime karaoke in different languages have students create posters (either in English or target language or both) to celebrate their language learning by encouraging them to complete one of the following statements – Send your favourites to us and we will publish […]

Good Luck, Claire!

We wish Claire Leong, Head of Languages at Wesley College and former MLTAWA Committee member, all the best for the Australian Education Awards night on 16th August in Sydney. Claire is a finalist in the category for the  Department Head of the Year Award. Claire is one of 10 finalists in the category, and the only […]

Successful recipients – MLTAWA Grants to attend the 2019 AFMLTA Conference

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 […]

AFMLTA Conference Update

AFMLTA Conference Update

250 people, including a large group from WA, have already registered for the AFMLTA 2019 Conference: Languages – Breaking through Walls. However, there is still time to register. Keynote speakers: – Dr Jane Simpson (Australian National University) – Professor Joseph Lo Bianco (The University of Melbourne) – Professor John Hajek (The University of Melbourne) – […]

UWA Korean Studies Workshop for Teachers

UWA Korean Studies Workshop for Teachers

The Korean Studies Department of UWA is holding a Professional Learning Workshop for Language and HASS teachers at UWA on June 27-28. The workshop, funded by the Korea Foundation, is completely free for participants and will feature presenters from Australian universities, NSW, DoE and ACT schools. The workshop focuses on Korean society, history, language, traditional […]