Organization:
Merimbula P.S., Mondeto ( a not for profit social enterprise)
In: English
Target Audience: Primary School Teachers and Principals, Curriculum Leaders and Policy Makers
Short Session Description: The world’s most user-friendly language is also the most multicultural, talk with the world in Esperanto!

 Long Session Description:
Which foreign language is hardest to master? Your first! So it makes sense to start with the world’s easiest language, Esperanto, to build confidence and make friends in dozens of diverse cultures. Learn as you teach so your students will gain from your example of openness to learning through life. This is a discussion, so the exact content depends on what you are interested to know! Teaching Esperanto as an Apprenticeship Language, and an act of Global Citizenship, is something that an empowered teacher can do even without whole school participation, but it also makes sense as a School-Wide Policy and is scaleable to school districts, states and nations. So, if you have a broader focus than one classroom, we can talk about that too.

Penny Vos has been teaching Esperanto to children since 1997 and they have loved surprising their parents with real ability to communicate with children all over the world in their shared global language.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

www.fluentin3months.com/2-weeks-of-esperanto/

http://apprenticeshiplanguagelearning.weebly.com/index.html

www.MontessoriEsperanto.org

www.lernu.net

www.mondeto.com

http://mediasiteex.usc.edu.au/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.a…

PLEASE NOTE: This is an open project: other Vietnamese schools with interactive lessons want to contribute to the program are welcome. We want to collaborate with any personal having special skill in the area.

 Teachers who have bright ideas, acting skills are invited to join our production line.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/au/lp/lhr/sti/leh/en3385795.htm

Festival at Anakie Fairy Park

Sunday 20 May 2012, 11 am – 3 pm

Join us in the celebrations of 200 years of Brothers Grimm fairytales on this very special day:

• Puppet musical “Schneewittchen” (tri-lingual and interactive)
• Student performances
• Schnappi the Crocodile
• Fairy park languages trail
• Story reading
• Dance groups
• Prizes for best Grimm fairytale costumes
• Delicious food

Don’t miss this opportunity to introduce your children and grandchildren to this part of cultural heritage.

Further details www.goethe.de/australien

Beginning level is for THREE-year old children, but parents let much younger kids play with our Descriptive Matching Game.

Apart from PC system, our Interactive Whiteboard & Motive Board offer interesting learning with modern technology.

We provide distance learning material and software to help families in remote areas.

Parent having children with Learning Difficulty can have our  Early Intervention Therapy software and material for free.

The THE-HE Vietnamese School also teaches Vietnamese Traditional Musical Instruments such as TRANH, B?U and T RUNG.

Please contact 613-95465024 or thehe.school@gmail.com for more information.

Youtube videos show our Solution For Disabled Children and Community Based Approaching instruction.

Just search for  truongthehe  channel.

Pictured below are some Vietnamese traditional musical instruments: Tranh, Bau, Trung

A second meeting of Indonesian language teachers will be held in Brisbane on Saturday 26 Feb 10 am LOTE Library Montague Road, West End and the diehards and new enthusiasts will establish a Queensland Indonesian Language Teachers Association. Please contact Kerry O’Connor if interested: kocon4 at eq.edu.au

This follows the research project on Indonesian in Australian Universities and National Colloquium on Tertiary Indonesian convened on 9-11 February 2011 by Professor David Hill. His draft discussion paper is available online. Participants included Australian academics, teachers, DFAT and DEEWR representatives, Indonesian Embassy and Consulate officials, one state parliamentarian, business spokespersons, visitors from Germany, Japan and Indonesia, plus inspiring young Australian students of Indonesian working as volunteers at the Colloquium. Many of our long-term worries were aired, strategies considered and the closure of the ALTC lamented. The agreement to work on a National Indonesian Resources Bank was one positive outcome which may dovetail nicely with work of Education Services Australia’s National Digital Learning Resources Network. There are now three Balai Bahasa in WA, ACT and Victoria. A concerted promotion campaign to counter years of negative coverage of Indonesia would be  helpful and discussions centred on reinvigorating the Australian Society of Indonesian Language Educators (ASILE) as an ongoing active  promotional body, not just organiser of biennial conferences.

Australia Indonesian Business Council (AIBC) vice president Ross Taylor demonstrated the brilliant opportunities for Australians in so many fields of business, if only they will equip themselves with the knowledge to cope with the challenges and if Indonesia continues its recent record in reforming business practice and regulations.

We are a new French preschool centre in North Balwyn. We offer licensed childcare as well as short sessions in Art and Craft, music etc, all with immersion French (for novices as well as fluent French speakers). We are currently taking enrolments for Term 1, which starts next week. Please take a look at www.lepetitparis.com.au  N.B: We also offer classes for primary school children and adults.

You should be self-motivated, willing to acquire new skills and work reliably in a small team.

 Responsibilities include:

• Processing of enrolments for language courses, conferences and seminars
• Invoicing and controlling
• Assistance with event and language class organisation
• Administration of intern program
• Administration of scholarship and language assistant program
• Management of database
• Answering general enquiries
• Advising clients on language courses in Australia and overseas

 What you need to fulfill to qualify for this role:

• Minimum 3 years experience in administration
• Fluency in spoken and written English and German
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong customer focus

Note on Residency: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have an appropriate Australian work visa (no work & holiday visa please!)

 Hours: 4 days with a total of 26 hours per week

Salary: in accordance with experience

Starting date: 11 January 2011

Contract period: 12 months

Applications close: 25 November 2010 

For further information and application please contact

Petra Franz petra.franz@melbourne.goethe.org 

Applications and enquiries by email only please

 The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution, operational worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. We also foster knowledge of Germany by providing comprehensive information on its culture, society and politics. www.goethe.de

To build on the success of a union anti-intervention speaking tour of Steve Patrick and Peter Inverway earlier this year, Melbourne Anti Intervention Collective is planning a bilingual education day conference on a Saturday in November.

In holding the conference we aim to raise awareness about the ban on Aboriginal languages for the first four hours of school days, and associated measures like welfare quarantining that punish students, families and Aboriginal culture for problems created by chronic under-resourcing. On a more local level, we would address questions of the place- or lack of space- for Aboriginal culture and history in the National Curriculum.

We would also put this attack on Aboriginal educational rights in the context of the NT Intervention, and of the resistance to the intervention.

We see this as an important way to build up the general resistance to Anti Aboriginal racism and resistance to the assimilation push. We want to consolidate primarily education union members, but also more generally teachers, academics, students and other interested parties as Aboriginal rights activists.

We need your help to make this conference as relevant as possible, and to help it reach as wide an audience as possible. We are holding a planning meeting this Thursday evening at the New International Bookshop at Trades Hall.

We would love your ideas about speakers, your knowledge about the issues, your networks and ideas about how we can end these policies.

A tentative agenda for the conference is:

• Session One: Bilingual Education – What’s happening and why?
• Session Two: The National Curriculum and Indigenous Perspectives
• Session Three: Where to from here

Look forward to seeing you there,

Lucy Honan
0404728104