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Archived News
Information about past issues & news items can be found on this page.
Australian Awards for Teaching Excellence - 2009 Award Winners
The Minister for Education, the Hon Julia Gillard, recently announced winners of the Australian Awards for Teaching Excellence at a ceremony in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra. Special congratulations to the 2 language teachers who received these prestigious awards - Melissa Gould-Drakeley and Christiane Conesa-Bostock. For more details please see the Teaching Australia website.
Australia-Indonesia BRIDGE ProjectApplications are now open for schools to participate in the 2010 Australia-Indonesia BRIDGE Project. Managed by the Asia Education Foundation, the Australia-Indonesia BRIDGE Project aims to increase knowledge and understanding between Australia and Indonesia through school-to-school partnerships that link students in both countries. To find out more and download an Application Information Pack and Form, visit http://www.bridge.edu.au Applications will close on Friday 23 October, 2009.
Access Asia Study Tours to Japan, China and Vietnam for Australian EducatorsIf you feel the need to refresh or build your knowledge of Japan, China, Vietnam or India, check out the January 2010 Access Asia Study Tours. Designed for Australian educators, the tours provide an opportunity to travel with like minded professionals, to experience the culture and learn from local educators. For more information visit: http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/studytours Registrations close on 23 October 2009. Please note registrations will be based on first received. Please register as soon as possible as numbers are limited.
May - News-In-Brief
Keep abreast of what has been happening in the AFMLTA with the latest News-In-Brief available now.
FIPLV World Congress cancelled
Unfortunately, the 2009 FIPLV World Congress, to be held in Moscow, Russia, has had to be cancelled. Please see the FIPLV website www.fiplv.org for more infomation.
What makes a good language centre?
With the government's recent push to have a number of specialist language centres built as part of the Building the Education Revolution program you may be interested in the AFMLTA's opinion of what would constitute a good centre here.
Advanced Primary Teaching Standards Project
Expressions of interest are being called from teachers wishing to be involved with Advanced Primary Teaching Standards - A national project to describe excellence in primary teaching. Further information is available here. check out the website at http://primarystandards.aamt.edu.au/
MCEETYA National Plan 2009-2012The AFMLTA has recently provided feedback to the government's Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs Plan 2009-2012. You can read what we said here.
AFMLTA News in Brief
The News in Brief is produced by the president elect or immediate past president to give an overview of the AFMLTA activities to state liaison officer via email.
AFMLTA Information Bulletin
The Information Bulletin was produced in hard copy until approximately 1996 and distributed to states for them to disseminate as they saw fit.
AFMLTA National Writing Competition
2004 National Writing Competition
2003 National Writing Competition
2002 National Writing Competition
2001 National Writing Competition
Professional Standards for accomplished teaching of languages and cultures This document was funded by the Australian Government Department of Education Science & Training under the National Asian Languages & Studies in Australian Schools (NALSAS) Strategy. (2005) click here to download
Address by the Chief of Army Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove AC. MC. to the Australian Principals' Association Development Council (APADC) - Melbourne 30 September 2002click here to download
News In Brief - February 2009
Read about the recent activities of the AFMLTA in the latest News-In-Brief available here.
Early Bird Registration to close soon!!!
Early bird registrations for the biennial AFMLTA National Conference are due to close at the end of February. Hosted by the MLTANSW and to be held in Sydney in July 2009 this will be the first time the biennial event has returned to New South Wales since 1980. Check the conference website at http://www.mltansw.asn.au/afmlta2009.htm for further information.
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