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Winners of the Competition for Sponsored Registration for 2016 ACTA-ACAL Conference
ATESOL ACT are sponsoring registration fees for two members to attend the 2016 ACTA-ACAL Conference The winners were drawn and announced at the ATESOL ACT Annual Dinner on Wednesday 4 November. Congratulations to Jennifer Mayers (school sector winner) and Lesley...
Welcome to our 2015 Committee
At our AGM on Saturday 21 February the new ATESOL ACT Committee for 2015 was elected. We welcome back to the Committee Jennifer Mayers, who has stepped up into the President role. Jennifer is especially keen to lead us in advocacy in the schools sector. Also a warm...
Misty Adoniou – ATESOL ACT’s first Life Member
This year, 2014, the ATESOL ACT Committee decided to honour one of our most respected members, Misty Adoniou, by awarding her a Life Membership of ATESOL ACT. Misty is our first Life Member! Heather Donohoe, Lesley Cioccarelli, Misty Adoniou & Jakki Cashman...
ACTA Submission to AMEP & SEE Evaluation
ATESOL ACT members contributed to the Australian Council of TESOL Association’s submission to the federal Department of Industry in December 2014 ACTA Submission to the adult programs SEE and AMEP review 2014 The AMEP Evaluation Report was released by the...
ATESOL ACT University of Canberra TESL and TESOL Student Awards
The ATESOL ACT Student Awards were instituted in 2008 to recognize outstanding achievements in studies in: ‘Teaching English as a Second Language’ in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra – the TESL Student Award‘TESOL Methodology’ in the Faculty...
ACTA Adult Working Party submission for the National Foundation Skills Workforce Development Project
A small group of ATESOL ACT Committee members contributed to the ACTA submission for the National Foundation Skills Professional Standards Framework Project. Please see below for a link to details of the project and the final ACTA submission. Dearest councillors,I am...
ACTA NAPLAN Submission & GONSKI
In 2013, ATESOL ACT has also provided opportunities for our members to contribute to the ACTA NAPLAN submission. The ACTA NAPLAN Submission is now on ACTA’s website: http://www.tesol.org.au/Advocacy/EALD-ISSUES-SCHOOLS/NAPLAN; please take time to read it. Members were...
ATESOL supports the review into funding for EAL/D (English as an Additional Language or Dialect) students
Currently 40 per cent of eligible EAL/D students are not receiving targeted English language support in ACT Public Schools. Early in 2012 ATESOL members attended a meeting held at HBCTL and provided input into the review of funding. Committee members from ATESOL ACT...
Other Advocacy and Policy Development
On the local ACT level and nationally through the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA), ATESOL ACT continued to contribute to policy development in 2012, most notably the ACT Languages Policy, targeted EAL/D funding (see below), the Language, Literacy and...
Support for English Language Learning in ACT public schools
The Honourable Andrew BarrMinister for Education and TrainingLegislative Assembly for the ACTGPO Box 1020CANBERRA ACT 260124th October 2011Dear Minister Barr,On behalf of the Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages ACT (ATESOL ACT), I write...
ACT Languages Policy Feedback
The ATESOL ACT fully supports the initiative of developing a comprehensive languages policy for the ACT. The ACT government can truly be applauded for developing such a first of its kind comprehensive Languages Policy.It is significant that the ACT Languages Policy...
AMEP Research Centre closure
The AMEP Research Centre has provided research and Professional Development, publications and information services to the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) nationally since 1989. Recently, the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship announced that...
Submission into the ACT Legislative Assembly Inquiry into “The Educational Achievement Gap in the ACT”
On Thursday 25 June 2009, the Legislative Assembly for the ACT referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Training and Youth Affairs for inquiry and report the extent of existing socio-economic differences in educational engagement and achievement in all ACT...
Bilingual teaching programs in Northern Territory
One of the main concerns on our political agenda has been the bilingual teaching environment in Northern Territory, where Aboriginal languages has been reduced to a bare minimum. Last week a delegation from Alice Springs took more than 50 letters of concern to three...
AMEP Review
On 23 July 2008 the Department of Immigration & Citizenship released a Discussion paper on the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) as part of their review of this program. The discussion paper can be accessed on:...
Increase in quality and funding of ESL teaching
In late 2008 we did some intensive lobbying at the door of the ACT Minister for Education, Andrew Barr, for a much needed increase in quality and funding of ESL teaching. We expressed ATESOL ACT’s serious concern over present trends which we feel have reduced ESL...
Penny McKay Memorial Award for Best Thesis in Australian Language Education
This is a national award for an outstanding doctoral thesis which benefits the teaching and learning of second/additional languages in Australian schools, including Indigenous languages, community languages, foreign languages, Standard Australian English as an...
School Autonomy press release
ATESOL ACT put out the following press release on School Autonomy: ESL teacher association gravely concerned about increased school autonomy in government schools The Executive Committee of the Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other...