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EAL - Assessment for Learning Using the Language and Literacy Levels - 3 Day Workshop - Term 1, 2020 (19 Feb 2020)

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 22:30:00 GMT

EAL
Assessment for Learning Using the Language and Literacy Levels
3 Day Workshop - Term 1, 2020

Last Day to Register: Wednesday 12 February 2020

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALD students is the tool used by teachers of EAL learners to assess and plan for their language and literacy development. The Levels provide detailed information about students' written and oral language development which can be used for assessment and programming purposes.

COURSE INFORMATION
Registration is for all 3 days; participants are required to attend all sessions

Term, Week	Date	Time	Venue
Term 1, Week 4	Wednesday 19 February	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7
Term 1, Week 6	Tuesday 03 March	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7
Term 1, Week 7	Friday 13 March	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7

Location:     Catholic Education Conference Centre,  116 George Street, Thebarton

AITSL NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS INCLUDE:
Standard 5 - Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
      5.1 Assess student learning
      5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgments
      5.4 Interpret student data
Standard 6 - Engage in professional learning
      6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
      6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice

INTENDED FOR:
This workshop is suitable for primary and secondary teachers who wish to learn how to use the Levels to assess oral and written language as an assessment for learning tool. Also, schools that are intending to submit EAL data in 2020 need to ensure that teachers who conduct the assessments have been trained in using the Levels.

Maximum of 40 participants

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

An introduction to the Language and Literacy Levels and links to the Australian Curriculum
Learn about the functional model of language as described in the Language and Literacy Levels
Develop knowledge and skills for reliable and valid assessments of written and oral language
Build confidence to use the Levels to identify teaching and learning needs
Model some teaching strategies for explicitly teaching language (grammar)
Application to own student writing samples

Cost: no workshop fee

Catering: morning tea and lunch will be provided

Facilitator: Leading Learning Consultants

For Further Information regarding registration:

Katie Morrison
katie.morrison@cesa.catholic.edu.au or 8301 6695

2020 Engage with Asia Network (10 Mar 2020)

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:30:00 GMT

2020 Engage with Asia Network

Last day to register: Thursday 27 February 2020

NETWORK FOCUS

CESA schools are places where students live and respect diversity, difference, commonalities, intercultural and ethical understanding. The Engage with Asia Network encourages teachers and students to develop respectful relationships and academic co-constructed curriculum with partners in Asia, through relevant ICTs.

The network will focus on the development of models of effective and sustainable school partnerships with contemporary curriculum and educational collaboration between CESA schools and schools in Asia.

Participants will be directly involved in online collaborative co-construction of curriculum with schools in Asia, with student agency and 21^st century pedagogies and capabilities at the forefront of this Network’s work.

It is envisaged that the work to be undertaken through the 2020 Engage with Asia Network will support students in building dialogue and negotiate with other students in Asia on different aspects contributing to greater intercultural understanding and global competence.

What will actually happen?

Participants will:

Co-construct a Partnership Plan with a school in Asia
Prepare online classes and class presentations that favour student voice, student agency, distributed leadership and common areas of the curriculum
Show how the CESA Living Learning and Leading Framework is being lived and implemented in their practice, pedagogy and assessment, as a result of their school’s involvement in the network
Investigate and share successful models of co-construction and student agency
Design student surveys to gather evidence of how students achieve some of the capabilities outlined in the CESA Living Learning Leading Framework, the General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum as well as Global Competence as outlined in the OECD 2018 PISA
use the AC Intercultural Understanding GC and CESA’s Interculturally and Globally Minded Capability to check their students’ progress throughout their involvement

Members of this Network:

will attend 2 central Network days (Adelaide) and 2 Regional Network Days
design a partnership plan together with the partner school in Asia
show evidence that their involvement in the Engage with Asia contributes to their school’s Annual Improvement Plan
may be supported to visit their partner schools in Asia – details to be discussed and confirmed at the first Network meeting

CESA will support the participation of 3-4 new schools into the network.

Further information

First Network Day :
Tuesday 10 March 2020 - Catholic Education Office Room 8

AITSL Australian Professional Standards for Teachers to be addressed:
1.2 Understand how students learn
2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.2 Content selection and Organisation
2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting
2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
3.3 Use teaching strategies
6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice

INTENDED FOR:
Educators wanting to lead the implementation of innovative and creative strategies that address engagement with Asia across the school.
Educators with responsibility over the languages and cultures curriculum.

Cost: no fee

Catering: morning tea and lunch will be provided

FACILITATOR:
Curriculum, Learning and Wellbeing Consultant

For Further Information regarding registration:
Chris Virgin
chris.virgin@cesa.catholic.edu.au
8301 6851

2020 Innovative Approaches to the learning and teaching of languages and cultures (27 Mar 2020)

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:30:00 GMT

2020 Innovative Approaches to the learning and teaching
of languages and cultures

Last day to register: Thursday 27 February 2020

NETWORK FOCUS

The aims of this project are to:

Trial and research innovative pedagogical models that will enhance the current offerings of languages and cultures programs
Explore new ways in which the languages and cultures program can contribute to increased student engagement and whole school ownership of the project
Be part of a network of schools that can support each other and inform system-wide strategies

2020 is the third year of this project and continuing schools will implement the strategies trialed in 2019. CESA will now support the addition of 3 new schools to the project who will have the opportunity to observe different models in Catholic schools in Melbourne that can be adapted to their own context.

Schools will have the time to research, explore, observe and trial the best models that best suit their contexts and enhance their languages and cultures programs. Continuing schools will work in a mentoring capacity to new schools starting this year.

New participants in this project will attend the Deakin University Professional Learning course on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Gesture Based approaches, partly taught in Melbourne at the same time as the visits to Catholic schools in Melbourne

Outcomes:
Innovative models begin to be explored, trialled and implemented in order to:

provide innovative ways of delivering the languages and cultures program
extend languages use and learning beyond languages lessons, into cross-curricula or integrated learning, and contribute to students’ development of General Capabilities

create new knowledge, understandings and approaches that can be shared across CESA schools through a formal research partnership
contribute to the development of a CESA Languages and Cultures Strategy
increase time on task in languages and cultures learning
enhance student, staff and overall community engagement through languages learning
develop whole school commitment to and ownership of their languages programs

Involvement in this Professional Learning Program will include school visits to Catholic schools in Melbourne and attendance at a Professional Learning course on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Gesture Based approaches by Deakin University.

Participants :
Languages teacher and leader from 3 new CESA schools in addition to the current 5 members of the project.

CESA support:

Continuing schools will receive a grant of $2,000 to support any activity related to the implementation of the approach chosen
New schools will receive a grant of $4,000 to support their visit to Melbourne and any other activity related to this project

There is limited membership available for this Network

Date for the first meeting: To be advised once participants are confirmed

Further information

AITSL Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
1.2 Understand how students learn
2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting
3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
3.3 Use teaching strategies
3.4 Select and use resources
6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice

INTENDED FOR:
Educators wanting to lead the implementation of innovative strategies that will enhance the languages and cultures programs.
Educators with responsibility over the languages and cultures curriculum.

Cost: no fee

Catering: morning tea and lunch will be provided

FACILITATOR:
Curriculum, Learning and Wellbeing Consultant

For Further Information regarding registration:
Chris Virgin
chris.virgin@cesa.catholic.edu.au
8301 6851

Moderation of EAL - Assessment (Levelling) for 2020 Data Collection Process (Day 1 of 3) (20 May 2020)

Tue, 19 May 2020 23:30:00 GMT

Moderation of EAL - Assessment (Levelling)
for 2020 Data Collection Process, Term 2 Week 4
Day 1 of 3 - Wednesday 20 May

Last Day to Register: Wednesday 13 May 2020

COURSE DESCRIPTION

To be considered for support from the CESA EAL Program in 2021, schools will need to submit data indicating the numbers of EAL students enrolled and their level of need, assessed using the Language and Literacy Levels.
To ensure consistency across schools in the interpretation of levels and level decisions, schools must ensure that teachers assessing student texts have attended at least one of the following moderation days. Teachers are welcome to register for more than one day.

COURSE INFORMATION
When: Day 1 of 3
You will need to register separately for each day that you wish to attend.

	Date	Time	Venue
Day One	Wednesday 20 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8
Day Two	Thursday 21 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8
Day Three	Friday 22 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8

Location: Catholic Education Conference Centre - 116 George Street, Thebarton

A maximum of 45 participants for each workshop

CORE FOCI AND PRIORITIES
EAL/D learners
Assessment for learning

AITSL NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS INCLUDE:
Standard 5 - Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
      5.1 Assess student learning
      5.4 Interpret student data
Standard 6 - Engage in professional learning
      6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice

INTENDED FOR:
EAL specialist teachers, classroom teachers and subject teachers who are involved in the leveling assessments of EAL student writing samples and the EAL data collection process in their school.

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

Overview of the data collection process
Collaborative assessment and clarifying
Inter-rater reliability check
Individual assessment and levelling

IMPORTANT NOTES:
Participants need to bring:

Students' writing samples
printed or electronic copy of the Language and Literacy Levels
https://online.cesa.catholic.edu.au/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-5366
preferred proformas for recording evidence (a limited number will be available on the day)

Catering: morning tea and lunch will be provided

Cost: no workshop fee

FACILITATOR:
Leading Learning Consultants

For Further Information regarding registration:
Chris Virgin
chris.virgin@cesa.catholic.edu.au 8301 6851

Moderation of EAL - Assessment (Levelling) for 2020 Data Collection Process (Day 2 of 3) (21 May 2020)

Wed, 20 May 2020 23:30:00 GMT

Moderation of EAL - Assessment (Levelling)
for 2020 Data Collection Process, Term 2 Week 4
Day 2 of 3 - Thursday 21 May

Last Day to Register: Wednesday 13 May 2020

COURSE DESCRIPTION

COURSE INFORMATION
When: Day 2 of 3
You will need to register separately for each day that you wish to attend.

	Date	Time	Venue
Day One	Wednesday 20 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8
Day Two	Thursday 21 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8
Day Three	Friday 22 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8

Location: Catholic Education Conference Centre - 116 George Street, Thebarton

A maximum of 45 participants for each workshop

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

Overview of the data collection process
Collaborative assessment and clarifying
Inter-rater reliability check
Individual assessment and levelling

IMPORTANT NOTES:
Participants need to bring:

Students' writing samples
printed or electronic copy of the Language and Literacy Levels
https://online.cesa.catholic.edu.au/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-5366
preferred proformas for recording evidence (a limited number will be available on the day)

Catering: morning tea and lunch will be provided

Cost: no workshop fee

FACILITATOR:
Leading Learning Consultants

For Further Information regarding registration:
Chris Virgin
chris.virgin@cesa.catholic.edu.au 8301 6851

Moderation of EAL - Assessment (Levelling) for 2020 Data Collection Process (Day 3 of 3) (22 May 2020)

Thu, 21 May 2020 23:30:00 GMT

Moderation of EAL - Assessment (Levelling)
for 2020 Data Collection Process, Term 2 Week 4
Day 3 of 3 - Friday 22 May

Last Day to Register: Wednesday 13 May 2020

COURSE DESCRIPTION

COURSE INFORMATION
When: Day 3 of 3
You will need to register separately for each day that you wish to attend.

	Date	Time	Venue
Day One	Wednesday 20 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8
Day Two	Thursday 21 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8
Day Three	Friday 22 May	9.00 – 4.00	Room 7 & 8

Location: Catholic Education Conference Centre - 116 George Street, Thebarton

A maximum of 45 participants for each workshop

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

Overview of the data collection process
Collaborative assessment and clarifying
Inter-rater reliability check
Individual assessment and levelling

IMPORTANT NOTES:
Participants need to bring:

Students' writing samples
printed or electronic copy of the Language and Literacy Levels
https://online.cesa.catholic.edu.au/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-5366
preferred proformas for recording evidence (a limited number will be available on the day)

Catering: morning tea and lunch will be provided

Cost: no workshop fee

FACILITATOR:
Leading Learning Consultants

For Further Information regarding registration:
Chris Virgin
chris.virgin@cesa.catholic.edu.au 8301 6851