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Languages Victoria
Member Services
Member services have included continuing access to quality professional learning and to our online e-version publications. This year, the MLTAV with funding support from the Department of Education and Training (DET), has again provided a subsidy to Government school teachers, and teachers from regional schools, to attend the annual conference.
DET funding has also enabled members to participate in:
•CLIL Network and Association workshops;
• Webinars and to access archived copies for professional learning;
•New Graduate and Returnee teachers of languages workshop;
•An in-school workshop at Mt Ridley F-10 college facilitated by Linton Roe ‘strategies to improve student oral language and engagement in the languages classroom’.
MLTAV continues to provide website support to SLAs and funding to enable language-specific professional learning. Communication with Single Language Associations is supported by Presidents’ meetings providing opportunities for information sharing and strengthening of relationships. The strong and positive relationship between MLTAV and Single Language Associations is very important to me personally. I see the strength of languages in Victoria being a combination of many things one of which is the existence of SLAs representing their teachers and providing their members with language-specific professional learning and representation. The MLTAV as the umbrella language organisation encapsulates the needs of all languages teachers and has a role to advocate for all languages in Victoria.
Three new projects – Maths through Languages video clips (a cross-curricula collaboration), showcasing CLIL in Schools and Early Years Languages Resources have resulted in a suite of fantastic resources now available via the department’s FUSE platform. MLTAV Committee member Kylie Farmer will showcase these projects in her report.
MLTAV online publications Languages Victoria, LanguagesConnect and e- connect continue to provide our membership with professional reading as well as up-to-date information relevant to the teaching and learning of languages. The MLTAV Social Media Platforms are also well supported.
The MLTAV continues to maintain strong relationships with the AFMLTA. Communication with the AFMLTA is regular and in 2019 has continued by attending online Presidents’ meetings and attending the AFMLTA Assembly in July. MLTAV has welcomed receiving and distributing AFMLTA’s News-in-Brief, Babel and promoting various AFMLTA PL initiatives.
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