01 - Department of Education and Communities - NSW Government
01 - Department of Education and Communities - NSW Government
01 - Department of Education and Communities - NSW Government
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EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNINGThe training provided teachers withextensive course material, a oneday work shadowing experience,the opportunity to network withother community languagesteachers <strong>and</strong> key support people,<strong>and</strong> to undertake the formulation<strong>of</strong> an action plan for theimplementation <strong>of</strong> their communitylanguages program in collaborationwith key members <strong>of</strong> their schoolcommunity.The Saturday School IntensiveMethodology (SSLIM) <strong>and</strong>Primary LOTE IntensiveMethodology (PLIM) programswere designed to meet the needs <strong>of</strong>teachers teaching in a governmentschool who have competency in alanguage other than English, but nolanguage teaching methodology. Atotal <strong>of</strong> 116 teachers undertookmethodology programs in 1997,(96 primary school teachers <strong>and</strong>twenty Saturday school teachers).In 1997, ongoing support wasprovided to the 40 schools in <strong>NSW</strong>studying Korean. This supportincluded:• providing languagedevelopment training viaaudiographic link to the fivesecondary teachers <strong>and</strong> twentyYear 11 students whocommenced the 2 Unit HSCKorean course• sponsoring 26 teachers tostudy Korean throughuniversity partnerships (thetertiary course was especiallydesigned for teachersparticipating in the KoreanUsing Technology Projectprogram on the basis <strong>of</strong>specifications provided by theDSE)• a five day residential courseinvolving 52 primary <strong>and</strong>secondary Korean teachers• the completion <strong>of</strong> the laststage <strong>of</strong> the teaching <strong>and</strong>learning material providing acontinuous Korean course forYear 3-12.Negotiations were undertakenby Training <strong>and</strong> DevelopmentDirectorate to trial the delivery <strong>of</strong>Korean courses for senior studentsthrough the Open High School in1998.Three teachers were involved in anexchange program with Seoul,Korea <strong>and</strong> ten teachers weresponsored to attend a three weeklanguage development workshop atSogang University, Korea.Excellence in Languages <strong>Education</strong>Bonshaw Public School won a Director-General’s School Achievement Award forits innovative Japanese Language program.}The program is run for all students K-6.All students are using some Japaneselanguage in the classroom. They arewidening their educational horizonsthrough the eyes <strong>of</strong> another culture.~DSE Annual Report 1997 53
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