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Dear Principals and School Leaders,
We are excited to announce that the Professional Development Program for Semester 2, 2024 is now
available for registration!
Click HERE to download a PDF of the Semester 1, 2024 PD Program.
Please register each participant in your school using this online form:
https://bit.ly/PD-PROGRAM-2024
Please submit a new form for EACH participant selecting all the PD sessions you are registering them for. All sessions start at 6:30 PM.
Registrants will receive an email confirmation a days prior the PD session with your Zoom details or requesting your RSVP if it's a face-to-face session. For Face-to-Face sessions we need to ensure enough registrations to move forward.
We look forward to your participation and hope to see you at our upcoming sessions.
PD SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS
Topic: Reinforcing Language Through Activities
Presenter: Elizabeth Karakehagias
Synopsis:
This session focuses on how interactive, engaging activities can be used to enhance language learning and retention. This session explores various techniques, such as games, role-play, collaborative tasks, and hands-on projects, that promote language practice in a fun and dynamic way. It highlights how these activities help students apply language skills in real-world contexts, making the learning experience more memorable and effective. Participants will leave with practical strategies to create a more immersive and engaging language classroom.
Topic: Differentiation and Choice Boards in Languages Classrooms
Presenter: Linton Roe
Synopsis:
- Why differentiate?
- What does differentiation look like in a Languages Classroom?
- What is a choice board and why use one?
- Time to develop your own choice boards
Topic: Creating Educational Materials and Designing Effective Lesson Plans Using AI
Presenter: Maria Sabo
Synopsis:
This session explores the use of AI tools to streamline and enhance the creation of lesson plans and educational materials, taking the Victorian Curriculum as a foundational guide. Using a common
language topic like "The Weather," educators will learn how to leverage AI to generate lesson plans, interactive activities, and supplementary resources.
We will begin by developing a structured lesson plan, outlining key objectives and learning outcomes for language learners. From here, we’ll explore AI-driven tools that can assist in crafting engaging and dynamic educational materials. Participants will discover how to use AI to create flashcards, compile vocabulary lists, and design fun, interactive quizzes using platforms such as Kahoot or Blooket.
The session will also highlight how to integrate real-world content, like YouTube weather reports in the target language, into comprehension activities. Educators will learn techniques for using AI to generate questions, enhance listening skills, and engage students in meaningful, real-world applications of
language learning.
This practical, hands-on session will empower participants to use AI tools creatively, enriching the learning experience and making lesson planning more efficient and dynamic.
Topic:
Catering for Languages Learners with Specific Learning Differences
Presenter: Linton Roe
Synopsis:
- New research gives us insights into effective pedagogies for students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs)
- Simple,
practical strategies can improve phonological awareness and greatly assist our SpLD students to learn and use Languages
Topic: Diversity in the Classroom
Presenter: Sarah Pavy
Synopsis:In our classrooms, we see a great diversity of students, with different needs for support in order to fully participate in learning. This session will focus on how we can support this
diverse range, ensuring inclusive teaching practices, considering approaches for students with disabilities and learning challenges, and looking at a range of factors that we can influence, including the way we design our materials, how we engage with our students in the classroom, what we can do to help them to be comfortable and ready to learn. There will be discussion of some specific challenges that students face, strategies for support, and ideas for adjustments to tasks, activities and our teaching.
Topic: Engaging Activities, Rich Learning
Presenter: Sarah Pavy
Synopsis:
We are often aiming to make sure our students are having fun in our languages classrooms, however, some activities and games only lead to practice of small amounts of vocabulary. This session will focus on designing and developing engaging activities for students that support the development of a range of language skills, giving students opportunities to work with rich and varied linguistic structures and to develop skills for transfer and application into other contexts. Ideas will be shared through example activities and discussion of different ways of applying these.
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If you have any questions or need assistance with anything or even wish to suggest some Professional Development Topics you would like to have us organise please send me an email, I love hearing from
you!
Kind Regards,
Heba El-Hakim | Project & Communications Officer
Community Languages Victoria / Community Languages Australia
Mobile: 0430 744 094
Email: heba.elhakim@communitylanguages.org.au
Website: CLV / CLA
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging.
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