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The Languages Unit - Curriculum and Professional Support for Secondary

The Languages Unit has responsibility for statewide leadership and policy advice for languages in mainstream schools K-12, for the K-6 Community Languages program and for the operations of the Saturday School of Community Languages. The unit provides curriculum development and implementation support for the 12 priority languages and the other 26 languages taught in government schools and for a range of community languages.

Applications are being sought from schools seeking to host a Teaching Assistant (either French, German, Indonesian or Chinese) for the 2009 school year.

Schools are eligible to apply for a Teaching Assistant in one of the above languages if there are classes in:

• three years from Years 7-10, or
• two years from Years 7-10 and face-to-face classes in Year 11 and/or 12.

There is no cost to the host school as the Teaching Assistant is appointed above-establishment for three days per week. The Teaching Assistants works in team-teach situations with qualified teachers of these languages and take small groups of students for listening and speaking skills development and practice. It is envisaged that Teaching Assistants may also visit primary schools which have links with the secondary school.

Schools are invited to apply on the Application Form and need to consult the Information Flyer for further details. 

Closing date: 1 August 2008 (Term III, Week 2)

Stage 6 Beginners Syllabuses

The Stage 6 Beginners Syllabuses for Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish have been revised by the Board of Studies NSW. The syllabuses will be implemented in the Preliminary 2007, with the first HSC examination in 2008.

The following PowerPoint was presented by the Languages unit at Curriculum K-12 Directorate at statewide workshops to support the implementation of the syllabuses.

Stage 6 Beginners presentation

On the Board of Studies website each Beginners Syllabus includes a guide to the revised syllabus and advice on programming and assessment. There are also prescribed character lists for Chinese and Japanese.

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