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Viviana Golding
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- What languages do you speak?
- Italian, English, German
- What languages do you teach?
- Italian
- What year levels do you teach?
- prep-12
- Where do you teach?
- Primary and secondary
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As far as teaching French goes at Year 8, I'm having some pretty positive results with students by using VELS and individual learning plans in conjunction with negotiated topics that the classes voted on last year. It's not perfect but there seem to be more students engaged and developing time-management and goal-setting skills.
I also provide all the learning materials myself so the vocabulary range and complexity of language they have access to is much greater and more easily personalized than what you usually find in a textbook. At the moment we're doing "Hot date" and everyone is quite eager to be able to use the language of love to invite someone out.
Well that's the size of it at present. By the way I really enjoyed the Lote busters conference at Hamilton last year.
Cheers - Maureen Watts
Sounds great! Would love to take part in anything like that, just give me a shout and as much notice as you can!!! ( we are on our summer holidays until 1st september)
Will let you know if I find anything else of particular interest.
Isabelle
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Sorry it has taken me a while to get back to you. I won't be available for that session - I'll be in the car on the way to Melbourne that night! Sorry! But, I see you have made contact with Isabelle and it sounds like she's going to help you out. You're in good hand there... :-)
Jess
"What are the benefits of blogging?" Here is a nice topic for my next blog post!! How much time have you got for your CPD session? Do you want to concentrate on the benefits to inspire/ train colleagues or the use mainly with students? My stance on that is that the teacher needs to be a convert to even think of blogging with students, othewise it may take colleagues far -too far- from their comfort zone...
Do you want to get them to read blogs for their own CPD? Do you want them to create social networks through NING for instance? Do you want them to start writing their own blogs for self-development purposes: to reflect/ to engage with other teachers/ to exchange practical documents...?
If you go to my blog, My Languages and click on blogging from my delicious tags on the right (there is LOTS there). THere are quite a few wikis with reference links, but if you give me more details, I certainly can point you in the right direction as the amount of links I have on here can be a bit overwhelming. As regards what I call the "State of Languages" in the England and Wales -Scotland has got a different educational system, more forward-looking for languages and technology as far as I can see - I have been collecting links under the "State_of _languages" and "news" tags.
Isabelle
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Grazie del tou commento. Non sono nata in Italia ma il mio papa e' italiano (calabrese). Mio marito e' di Brindisi ma ho sempre vissuto in Australia. Geelong e' molto lonatno da Padova! Come mai sei arrivata nella citta dei "Cats":)
Isabelle
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Rowena is well and so am I. We attended a French imersion camp for year 10s on Friday and Saturday and are trying to recover. It was well worth it and Rowena did a fantastic job organising it all.
Bye for now.
Guylene
I'm trying to get my head around this blogging stuff. I'm rather lazy when it comes to all this communication technology, but I guess once you're into it, it might be really useful (exchanging teaching ideas etc.?).
Ciao,
Astrid.
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