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ACTA Councillors’ Meeting
Online
15 February 2024 Zoom link to be provided to councillors
ACTA Councillors’ Meeting
Online
16 November 2023 Zoom link to be provided to councillors
‘Engaging Learners’ for teachers working in the SEE program
Virtual
15 November 2023 4:30 - 5:30pm AEST
2023 VicTESOL Symposium
Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership
13 October 2023 8:00am - 4:00pm AEST
Theme: Sustaining EAL Expertise: Voices and Viewpoints from the Field
Adding the EAL/D extra to Mainstream Classroom Approaches. Presented by Dr Denise Angelo
Online
20 September 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm (CST)
Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary Through Meaning. Presented by Dr Misty Adoniou.
Online
14 September 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm (CST)
ACTA Councillors’ Meeting
Online
14 September 2023 Zoom link to be provided to councillors
The role of schools in supporting settlement: Focusing on wellbeing in migrant and refugee education.
Virtual
30 August 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm AEST
Digital Literacies in EAL Special Interest Group (SIG)
Virtual
23 August 2023 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Reciprocal Multilingual Learning in Secondary Classrooms – with Dr. Mei French
Online
2 August 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm (ACST)
Theme: In this session Dr French will introduce teachers to Reciprocal Multilingual Learning, a model of teaching developed from research into how multilingual students use their linguistic repertoires in their lives and learning.
ACTA Councillors’ Meeting
Online
13 July 2023 Zoom link to be provided to councillors
SATESOL 2023 mini-conference and AGM
Living Choice Fullarton; 123 FisherStreet, Fullarton SA
10 June 2023 9:15 - 1:30pm ACST
AGM & Councillors’ Meeting
Online
20 April 2023 Zoom link to be provided
LMERC Resourcing Event
Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre (LMERC) library, Level 1, 189 Faraday Street, Carlton
13 April 2023 4:30 - 6:00pm
Teaching EAL/D through the Arts
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV International), 180 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda, Victoria
17 March 2023 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Digital literacy skills for adult EAL migrant and refugee learners within the community-based education setting
Online
16 March 2023 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Effective implementation of translanguaging pedagogy in TESOL classrooms
Online
9 March 2023 4:00pm – 5:00pm AEST
Joint Construction and Guided Instruction: Benefits for Tertiary English Language Learners
Online
6 March 2023 5 - 5:45pm AET
SA TESOL, with Judith Tomas, Presents: Cultural Awareness for Educators
Education Development Corporation (EDC), Milner Street, Hindmarsh SA 5007
24 - 24 November 2022 5:15 - 7:30pm (ACST)
Developing English through an understanding of how languages work
Online
17 November 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm AEST
ACTA Council Meeting – November
Online
15 November 2022 7:00 - 9:00pm AEST
2022 VicTESOL Symposium: Professional Identity in TESOL-Finding the Common Ground
Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership, 603-615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne, Victoria
11 November 2022 8:30 - 4:00pm AEST
Challenges and possibilities in using The Victorian Curriculum F-10: EAL in a Year 7 science unit: A focus on word knowledge.
Online
10 November 2022 4:30 - 5:30pm AEST
AMEP Virtual Roadshow – Showcasing 3 New Resources
Online
26 - 26 October 2022 3 - 4pm AEST
***Rescheduled Date***Educator’s Tour of the Immigration Museum
On site - Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
18 October 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm AEST
AMEP Virtual Roadshow – Resources for the EAL Framework
Online
12 October 2022 4:30 - 5:30pm AEST
ACTA International Conference 2022
Brisbane, Queensland
26 - 28 September 2022
Theme: Pushing the Boundaries
ACTA Council Meeting – September
ACTA Conference
25 September 2022 Time TBA
EAL Meet & Teach with NGV (NGV Resourcing Event 2)
Online
15 September 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm AEST
EAL Framework 101 Session 3: Teaching a Unit (Adult sector)
Online
14 September 2022 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm AEST
Colony to Nation for EAL teaching and learning (NGV Resourcing Event 1)
Online
8 September 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
LMERC Resourcing Event
Languages and Multicultural Educational Resource Centre (LMERC), Level 1, CO.AS.IT Building, 189 Faraday St Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria 3053
1 September 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm
Natasha Koroi: ‘Belonging’ and ‘connectedness’ in Kakadu
Online
11 August 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
ACTA Council Meeting – August
Online
11 August 2022 7:00 - 9:00pm AEST
Australian Institute of Family Studies: Working with children who are experiencing or engaging in bullying behaviour
Online
10 August 2022 1:00 - 2:00pm (AEST)
Theme: Childhood bullying is a complex social issue and our understanding of bullying dynamics has evolved over time. It is important for practitioners to understand children’s knowledge and perspectives on childhood bullying so that they can better support them.
Moving Forward with the ACTA National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools – Interest Groups
Online
18 July 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Dr Helen Harper: Talking with intent: Scaffolding academic language with EAL/D learners
Online
22 June 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Cindy Valdez-Adams: Designing learning for vocabulary development
Online
21 June 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Dr Gill Pennington & Margaret Turnbull: The Power of talk
Online
20 June 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
ACTA Council Meeting – June
Online
9 June 2022 7:00 - 9:00pm AEST
Incorporating EAL/D students’ home languages and cultures into mainstream curriculum teaching and learning at school: Findings from a design-based Queensland study
Online
9 June 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm AEST
EAL Frameworks 101 (2): How to approach delivery and assessment of a group of units
Online
8 June 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm
Immigration Museum and VicTESOL: Integrating culture and language for EAL learners
Online
19 May 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Looking ahead: an overview of the new VCE English and EAL study design and planning for Units 1 & 2 in 2023
Online
10 May 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Languages in Early Childhood Education – Launch of special Early Childhood Education edition ‘TESOL in Context’
Online
5 May 2022 7:00 - 8:00pm AEST
Foundation Skills Frameworks Review Project: Forum 2
Online
31 March 2022 4 to 5pm AEDT
Theme: This forum gives you an opportunity to expand on your responses to the online survey and provide more specific feedback relating to the frameworks.
Associate Professor Jacqueline D’warte: Building on and enhancing Harmony Day: Classroom strategies and activities for learning about languages and literacies with young people.
Online
24 March 2022 4:00 - 5:00 pm (AEDT)
Theme: Harmony Day
Robyn Johnson; Caitlin Espinoza; Bess Wassman: How we support children to learn to read with both high challenge and high support
Online
22 March 2022 4:00 - 5:00 pm (AEDT)
Theme: Harmony Day
Dr Gill Pennington & Margaret Turnbull: Effective EAL/D teaching is characterised by features of high challenge and high support: a response to the Research Report ‘English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) effective school practices’
Online
21 March 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm (AEDT)
Theme: Harmony Day
Foundation Skills Frameworks Review Project: Forum 1
Online
17 March 2022 4 to 5pm AEDT
Theme: An information session on the project and its discovery phase findings. An opportunity to ask questions about the project (live or via chat).
Foundation Skills Frameworks Review Project Survey
Online
11 - 1 April 2022
Theme: The Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DLSF) are descriptive frameworks that give us a common language and a set of reference points for discussing, learning, reading, writing, oral communication, numeracy and digital literacy skills. They are used in diverse programs and in a range of product and policy development and workforce capability contexts.
Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF)
Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DLSF)
The Department has commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to review the ACSF and DLSF.
Phase 2 of the project is consultation- which includes a survey of stakeholders.
Adult TESOL Event – EAL Framework 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Victorian EAL Framework Curriculum
Online
9 March 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm (AEDT)
Teaching, Learning and Belonging in the Multilingual Classroom – Exploring the Resources of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra
Online
24 February 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm AEST
ALTAANZ 2020 – Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand
Melbourne, Vic
November 2021 (date to be announced)
Theme: Intersections, Crossings and Barriers
Panel Discussion – Assessment and Reporting for EAL students in primary and secondary schools
Online
18 November 2021 4 - 5pm (AEDT)
TESOL in Context- Growing TESOL in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander contexts
Online
8 November 2021 4:30pm - 6:00pm AEST
Towards a model for a hybrid delivery of EAL (Edwin Creely, Katrina Tour, Peter Waterhouse & Elizabeth Keenan)
Online
4 November 2021 4:00 - 5:30pm AEST
The Way Forward: How COVID has changed adult EAL delivery
Online
19 October 2021 4:00 - 5:30pm AEST
CLESOL Conference – Community Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages
Auckland, NZ
8 - 10 October 2021
Theme: Weave the language, weave the people -
Whiria the reo, whiria the tangata
“Your story: Write it with me” (3) / Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton
Online
15 September 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
VicTESOL – Designing culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogy for struggling adolescent and adult EAL learners (Dr Andrea DeCapua)
Online
14 September 2021 9 - 10:30am AEST
VicTESOL Symposium 2021 – TESOL in a time of COVID: implications and possibilities
Online
31 August 2021 4 - 5:30pm AEST
Immigration Museum and VicTESOL: Integrating culture and language for EAL learners
Online
25 August 2021 4 - 5pm AEST
QATESOL – Talk for Learning: Integrating dialogic teaching principles in the beginner-level English language classroom (presented by Skye Playsted)
Online
24 August 2021 4:30-5:30pm AEST
SATESOL – Issues of identity and multiculturalism in the National Portrait Gallery
Online
19 August 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm (ACST)
Revitalisation and maintenance of Aboriginal languages / Aboriginal teachers from Central Australia and NSW with Susan Poetsch
Online
12 August 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
“Your story: read it to me” (2) / Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton
Online
11 August 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
Multilingual Storyboxes in the EAL/D Classroom / Dr Gill Pennington
Online
10 August 2021 5:30-6:30 pm (AEST)
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
Colony to Nation – Bridging the Gap for EAL Learners – Presented by NGV Learn (National Gallery of Victoria) and VicTESOL
Online
22 July 2021 4:00-5:30 pm AEST
Shared experiences in teaching and supporting refugee students / Kim Cootes, Dr Gill Pennington & Cindy Valdez-Adams
Online
17 June 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Teaching Refugees – The Way Forward / Dorothy Hoddinott AO
Online
16 June 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
“Your story: Show it to me” A 3-part online course (1) / Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton
Online
15 June 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Developing Language Through the Arts / Cindy Valdez-Adams
Online
14 June 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
ATESOL ACT Briefing Meeting to Discuss Changes to the AMEP
Online
9 June 2021 8:00-9:00 pm AEST
VicTESOL Discussion Forum for teachers located in Tas, Vic & SA: Reform of the AMEP
Online
7 June 2021 4:00-5:00 pm AEST
The Role of Home Languages in Mainstream Schooling
Canberra, ACT
3 June 2021 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Theme: Lecture
Early Childhood and Education Series – Families and Communities as Resources for Children’s Writing and Cultural Learning
Online
17 April 2021 10:00 - 11:00 am AEST
Theme: Early Childhood and Education Series
Using Multimedia in the Adult TESOL Classroom – Adult TESOL Sharing Session
Online
30 March 2021 4:30-6:00 pm AEDT
Innovative sustainable online language teaching – social media and the adult EAL/D classroom
Online
24 March 2021 4:00–5:00 pm AEST Qld time
Theme: Adult learners, online learning
Teaching English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) During COVID-19 School Closure: Teacher Perspectives
Milpera SHS, Brisbane (face-to-face)
20 March 2021 9:00-10.30 am AEST Qld time
Theme: EAL/adult/school; covid-19
What Works in Effective EAL/D Schools: CESE research report
Online
18 March 2021 4:00-5:00 pm AEDT
“Your story: Show it to me” Three-part online course (Part 1)
Online
17 March 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEDT
Planning for teaching EAL/D students in K-2 mainstream classrooms
Online
17 March 2021 4:00-5:30 pm AEDT
Early Childhood and Education Series – Building ECEC across the Nordic Countries
Online
17 March 2021 6:00-7:00 pm AEDT
Theme: Early Childhood and Education Series
Exploring, thinking, and learning about languages and literacies with young people in Australian classrooms
Online
15 March 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEDT
Early Childhood and Education Series – Leveraging Languages for Learning
Online
17 February 2021 6:00-7:00 pm AEDT
Theme: Early Childhood and Education Series
English for Adult Migrants – Future Directions
11 November 2020
Theme: Learn about the Commonwealth Government’s vision for English language provision for adult migrants
The Refugee Experience – Resources for Teachers
28 October 2020
Theme: A collaboration between the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA), the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA), ATESOL ACT and VicTESOL
AALL Conference 2019 – Association for Academic Language and Learning
University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia
27 - 29 November 2019
Theme: AALL around the world: international perspectives, research and practice in academic language and learning