MLTA ACT Conference

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2020

Event details

Date: Saturday 15 August 2020
Times: 9 am to 11:30 am
Venue: Online - Zoom teleconference

Virtual workshop with Dr Gianfranco Conti
MLTA ACT members only; no cost.

Registration

Registration is via Google form
Register by Wednesday 12 August 2020.

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2019

Event details

Date: Saturday 17 August 2019
Times: 8:30 am arrival and registration for a 9:00 am start and 2:00 pm finish
Venue: Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning (HBCTL)
Location: 51 Fremantle Drive, Stirling ACT 2611

Thanks to the ACT Education Directorate's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Section for their generous support of this Mini Conference.
Intext Book Co. & Language International Bookshop will have a display at the Mini Conference.
Please see the conference flier for more details.

Registration

Registration via Trybooking.
Registrations close COB Tuesday 13 August.

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2018

Event details

Workshop sessions: In-flipped classroom, Google in the classroom, languages online ... See the conference flier for details
Date: Saturday 18 August 2018
Times: 08:30 to 13:20
Cost: $30 for members, $80 for non-members
Catering: Morning tea will be provided
Venue: Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning (HBCTL)
Location: 51 Fremantle Drive, Stirling ACT 2611
TQI accreditation: 4 hours
Registration: via Google form – registrations close Friday 10 August

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2017

Event details

Keynote: Ian Perry – Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI)
Date: Saturday 12 August 2017
Times: 08:30 to 13:30
Cost: $50 for members, $100 for non-members
Catering: Morning tea will be provided
Venue: Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning (HBCTL)
Location: 51 Fremantle Drive, Stirling ACT 2611
Registration: via Google form – registrations close Friday 4 August

Accreditation: This event has four hours' accreditation with TQI.

Preview

Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI) is an approach to second language acquisition (SLA) which is based on contemporary SLA research. The keynote presentation will delve into what Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI) is, explain how it is being implemented in classrooms in a Queensland high school, and the results that are being obtained with the school's Years 7-9 students. See the link above for more details.

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2016

A highly successful 2016 MLTA ACT Inc. Mini-Conference was held at HBCTL on 13 August 2016.

Theme: Content and Language Integrated Learning - CLIL
Date: Saturday 13 August 2016 from 8:30am to 1:30 pm
Cost: FREE for current financial members of the MLTA ACT Inc. Non-members pay $30 and receive half-year membership (does not include Babel).
Venue: Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning (HBCTL), 51 Fremantle Drive, Stirling ACT 2611
Invite: select this link
Catering: Breakfast and morning tea provided
Program: see below
What to bring: BYOD (bring your own device)
Registration: via Google form by 10 August please.

Sharon Brissoni presented the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®) Model, which was developed to make content material comprehensible to English Language Learners. This model is the result of the work of Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt and Deborah J. Short. It is used in bilingual settings across the United States. As a framework for organizing instruction, The SIOP® Model supports teachers in planning and delivering high-quality instruction for all students. There are eight interrelated components in the Model:

1. Lesson preparation
2. Building background
3. Comprehensible input
4. Strategies
5. Interaction
6. Practice and Application
7. Lesson delivery
8. review and assessment

Thanks to Sharon for this presentation on SIOP. The main slide is now available online.

Anissa Jones (Google Certified Educator) facilitated two workshops on:

1. Formative and Summative Assessment using GAFE Tools
2. Using MyMaps & Tour Builder in the Languages Classroom

Thanks to Anissa for these presentations, which are now available online at the links above.

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2015

Theme: Content and Language Integrated Learning - CLIL Date: Saturday 15 August from 8:30am Cost: FREE for current financial members of the MLTA ACT Inc. Non-members pay $30 and receive half-year membership (does not include Babel). Venue: Australian Catholic University (ACU), Signadou Campus, 223 Antill Street, Watson Invite: select this link Catering: Breakfast and morning tea provided Presenter: Dr Simone Smala Programs: see here What to bring: BYOD (bring your own device)

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2014

Theme: Best practice and the national professional standards Date: Saturday 23 August from 8:30am Cost: FREE for current financial members of the MLTA ACT Inc. Venue: Room S3, Signadou Building, Australian Catholic University (ACU), 223 Antill Street, Watson Invite: select this link Program: see here Accreditation: As advised in a broadcast email to members on 19 September, this event has been accredited with TQI. See details below.

Conference accreditation 2014

The Committee of the MLTA ACT Inc. are pleased to announced that the MLTA ACT Inc. is a TQI Recognised Provider of Professional Learning. We are extremely happy to also inform you that the Mini-Conference held on Saturday 23 August has received approval from TQI.

If you attended the Mini-Conference your attendance has been verified and the Professional Learning should appear on your TQI Portal as 'MLTA ACT Inc. Mini-Conference 23 August 2014'.

You will need complete an online reflection. To do this you will need to log on to the TQI website and enter the TQI Portal, click on the Professional Learning tab and then enter My PL Profile. The Mini-Conference should appear under the Accredited Programs section.

If the program has not appeared in the Accredited Program section of your PL Profile then you will need to let Veronique Canellas ( veronique.canellas@ed.act.edu.au ) know as some TQI numbers for members were not able to be verified on the TQI Website (Around 4 members in total). This means that you may have written the incorrect TQI number on the sign on sheet and/or did not write the same surname as listed on your TQI card.

MLTA ACT Mini Conference August 2013

Our Mini-Conference is on!!!! Theme: Terrific Teaching Tools and Trends Date: Saturday 17th August at 8:30am Cost: FREE for current financial members of the MLTA ACT Inc. Venue: Room S3, Signadou Building, Australian Catholic University (ACU), 223 Antill Street, Watson Invite: select this link

What you need to do

1. Plan to be there on the morning of 17 August!
2. RSVP by Friday 16th August for catering purposes to veronique.canellas@ed.act.edu.au
3. If you haven't done so yet, register with Scootle prior to the workshop. Your Scootle username and password will then allow you to enter the Scootle Community. Please go to http://www.scootle.edu.au and click on NEW to scootle? at the top right corner.

Program

08:30 Breakfast in the Rose Garden

09:00 Scootle Community - Myriam Davies

• Scootle Community is an information and interaction channel for teachers. Developed in collaboration with the Australian teaching profession, Scootle Community is a private space for teachers to give and receive advice and information online. Scootle Community has the capacity to link to every teacher in the nation in a professional digital community.

• As one of the Teachers Champions selected to develop and promote the Scootle Community, Myriam will show you how the Scootle Community works and how you can help build a national teaching community.

10:15 Pen and Ink to iPad - Lee-Anne Grunwald

• Leanne's year 4 students, learning German at Mount Rogers Primary School, explored the European history of writing, using the CLIL approach.
• She also developed a CLIL based programming template that includes links to the Australian Curriculum: Languages.
• Here is an alternate pdf format for the template.

11:00 Morning tea

11:30 Why not the museum or the zoo - Heike Craig

• There are many opportunities for authentic learning in Canberra. These include museums, galleries and embassies.
• Heike will give examples of how to utilise what is on offer and use the target language as part of the experience.

AFMLTA National Conference, Canberra 2013

	The biennial national conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations (AFMLTA) was held in Canberra to coincide with the Centenary of Canberra. The foundation stone of the city was laid when Canberra was named as the future Australian capital in 1913. The Australian Parliament moved to Canberra in 1927.
	Venue: Australian National University Dates: Friday 5 July to Monday 8 July 2013

Venue

Most of the conference events took place at the Australian National University. The conference dinner was in the Great Hall at University House, ANU. The welcome cocktail party was at the National Portrait Gallery with a private viewing of the exhibition of portraits before the cocktail. The main venue was the Manning Clark Conference Centre, ANU.

Program

The themes of the 2013 AFMLTA National Conference was Inspire, Innovate, Interact. The program was posted on the conference website. Brief overview:

Friday 5 July

• 15:30 Registration, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 17:30 Reception, National Portrait Gallery

Saturday 6 July

• 08:30 Official Opening, Manning Clark Centre 1
• 09:30 Keynote 1 (Dr Lid King: Europe and the Multilingual Dream), Manning Clark Centre 1
• 10:30 Morning Tea, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 11:00 Past Presidents' Panel, Manning Clark Centre 1
• 12:00 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 12:45 Lunch, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 13:30 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 14:15 Keynote 2 (Matthew Absalom: Coming to terms with the Google generation), Manning Clark Centre 1
• 15:00 Afternoon tea, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 15:15 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 16:00 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 18:30 Conference Dinner, University House

Sunday 7 July

• 08:30 Day registration and housekeeping, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 09:00 Horwood Memorial Lecture (Lesley Harbon), Manning Clark Centre 1
• 10:30 Morning Tea, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 11:00 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 11:45 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 12:30 Lunch, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 13:15 Keynote 3 (Tom Lindsey: Silent Partner: Asian Languages, Australia and the Asian Century), Manning Clark Centre 1
• 14:45 Afternoon tea, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 15:00 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 16:00 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)

Monday 8 July

• 08:45 Day registration and housekeeping, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 09:00 Languages @ ANU, Manning Clark Centre 1
• 09:30 Keynote 4 (John Hajek: Snapshots from the Edge: Australia, Languages, Language Education and the Asian/Global Century), Manning Clark Centre 1
• 10:30 Morning Tea, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 11:00 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 11:45 Parallel sessions,rooms in Manning Clark Centre and P.A.P. Moran Building (see full program)
• 12:45 Closing Ceremony,Manning Clark Centre 1
• 13:15 Lunch, Manning Clark Centre Foyer
• 14:00 Language Specific Network Meeting, venues to be confirmed

Social Program

For details of the social program, see the suggestions in the social program flier. Examples include:

• Skate in the City
• Turner from the Tate (NGA)
• Arboretum
• Canberra region wineries
• visits to embassies
• welcome cocktail (5 July 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the National Portrait Gallery)
• Gala Dinner (6 July 6:30 pm at University House).

Registration, sponsorship and trade displays

For information regarding sponsorship or trade display opportunities please email conference2013@afmlta.asn.au

Information about registration will be posted on the conference website at http://conference2013.afmlta.asn.au as it becomes available.

Accommodation

MLTA as the host organisation negotiated special rates for accommodation with the following:

• University House - book directly with them via email accommodation.unihouse@anu.edu.au and quote AFMLTA Conference for a special deal. They will deal open until 4-6 weeks prior to the Conference. Single, twin and double room with breakfast available.
• Mercure Canberra can offer 10 rooms quote “Modern Language Teachers Association”. Contact on 02 6243 0000.
• Novotel Canberra Room and breakfast, per night, with a minimum 2 night stay. To make a reservation, quote MLTA050713. Contact reservations on 02 6245 5000.
• Rydges Lakeside (quote booked via HI Management).
• Breakfree Capital Tower Apartments (quote booked via HI Management).

MLTA ACT Breakfast Conference, 2012

MLTA conference at ACU Signadou campus in Watson on of Saturday morning, 18 August 2012, was a great success. Well done to organisers and presenters.

Program

Conference themes: AIM Methodology, update on Australian curriculum and planning programs using Understanding by Design

8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 am	Welcome - Meri Dragicevic
9:00 am	Session 1 - AIM - Jennifer MacDonald and Shannon White
10:00 am	Session 2 - Languages Curriculum, Intercultural Understanding and Understanding by Design - Nicola Barclay
11:00 am	Morning tea
11:30 am	Session 3 - Languages in Australian Curriculum - Kristina Collins
12:30 pm	Finish

Registration

Registration fee
Members: $30
Non members: $50
Students: $15

Payment by cheque:
Cheques payable to: MLTA of ACT Inc.
Forward payment to: The Treasurer, MLTA of ACT Inc, GPO Box 989, Canberra ACT 2601

Payment by direct debit:
Modern Languages Teachers Association of ACT
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
BSB 062 902, account number 00902782, Reference: MLTA conference + Name
Once transferred, please email the receipt number and preferred stream to veronique.canellas@ed.act.edu.au

Previous 2010 Conference Workshop materials

Writing Rubrics - Natalie Stewart

Below are links to resources provided by Natalie Stewart relating to her presentation at the 2010 conference:

• Rubric Design
• Language_Rubric example
• A rubric for rubrics
• Can-do Assessment - The Languages Ladder Can-do Statements - part of the National Languages Strategy

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