Wednesday 27 September

Using Virtual Reality to Enhance the Language Learning Experience

MLTAV is offering members an afternoon of multilingual VR time travel and networking with fellow languages teachers while trialling a potential excursion for senior students.

Virtual Room in West Melbourne offers an immersive VR adventure where players work together in different environments, communicate and problem-solve to save the world. Their Time Travel Chapter 1 experience is available in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Mandarin, Arabic, Greek, German and English.

During our MLTAV members-only event, you will don a VR headset to experience Time Travel Chapter 1 in your choice of the 9 available languages. There will also be time for networking with your language teaching colleagues and discussion about curriculum links for your language and suitable pre- and post- excursion activities.

Date: Wednesday 27 September, 1-3pm

Venue: 75 Peel Street, West Melbourne (opposite Queen Victoria Market)

Cost: $40 (for VR experience, networking and discussion and light refreshments)

Strictly limited places available

MLTAV is considering offering a repeat of this event on a Saturday afternoon early in term 4 to cater for anyone keen to participate in this but unable to attend in the school holidays. If you would be interested in a term 4 event, please email info@mltav.asn.au

Tuesday 24 October, 9:15am - 3:00pm

CLIL in Action

Venue: Footscray Primary School, 100 Geelong Rd Footscray

This in-school workshop will provide you with opportunities to:

• Observe CLIL classes in action
• Understand how CLIL can be effective for engaging and motivating learners (and teachers!)
• Explore key principles which underpin quality CLIL teaching
• Build your confidence to implement strong CLIL strategies with students
• Collaborate with other Languages teachers to explore the possibilities and practicalities of CLIL

Facilitators: Linton Roe and Kylie Farmer

MLTAV Members: $100

Non-members: $130

Includes full day workshop, catering and access to resources

This event is supported by the Victorian Government.

Webinar

To support teachers implementing the Victorian F–10 Languages curriculum, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) is hosting a short professional learning webinar on how to use the VCAA’s suite of free online language assessments.

Developed with and hosted by the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER), the online VCAA Languages Assessments consist of a series of multiple choice listening and reading tests in Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish. The assessments provide a snapshot of each student's receptive reading and listening skills, which can be used to target the student's learning needs.

The VCAA’s upcoming professional learning webinar is a refresher on how online language assessments can be used to assess and target individual students' learning needs. It will focus on the data and reports available to support teachers using the online language assessments. It will also provide teachers with an understanding of how the data and reports can be used to inform their teaching.

When: Tuesday 12 September 2023

Time: 4pm–4.30pm

Register to attend: https://eduvic.webex.com/weblink/register/r4deb23c119ae602bddb8f1331a6a6d05