Welcome to MLTAWA
2008 International Year of the Languages
Chinese Year of the Rat
End of Term 1 2008 Message from President:
Greetings to you all!
I hope that you have had a very
productive first term. Italian and Chinese teachers have been super busy as
they have taken on the launch of the WACE Courses and the rest of you I
understand are busy preparing for next year!
Phil Chadwick and I have been making
a concerted effort to update the MLTAWA Website at regular intervals so
please do access it when ever possible.
Nadia Civa our PD Officer will
shortly be posting on the web our PD Calendar after she liaises with the
various U ni Linguals to avoid conflicting dates and topics.
Successful Conferences have been
held in Term 1 by TOFA and WAATI and I hope to have some pics and a short
report up for you all to share in their successes!
I feel honoured to have been invited
to open the TAGWA Conference on the 4th April and am certainly
looking forward to a closer liaison with all the Uni Lingual presidents, as
together we work for the improvement of the conditions that we face as
language educators.
As I will be taking LSL from 14
April to 10 June please forward any queries to Vice President, Janine Tate @
JTA@allsaints.wa.edu.au
Enjoy your break!
Fulvia
President MLTAWA
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AGM Photos
1. Lesley Heinzman: Awarded
life membership
2. Lesley McPherson: Hilde
Dixon Award recipient
3. Rita Tognini: Awarded life
membership
4. Wendy Hewitt:
Retiring
President
5. Clare Buising:
Retiring
Treasurer
6. NEW COMMITEE Back
Row L > R...Denisse Scasserra, Kate Williams, Nadia Civa, Michael Boyle...Front
Row L > R Lina Adam, Fulvia Valvasori, Janine Tate, Robin Hunt
Australian Federation of
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Expressions of Interest are invited from teachers of languages at
Government, Catholic, Independent and Ethnic primary and secondary schools
in all states and territories of Australia to participate in a supported
professional learning program focused on the Professional Standards.
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MLTAWA
Welcome to the Home Page of the
Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Western Australia (MLTAWA). We
are the professional association that represents teachers of all languages
taught in Western Australian schools, TAFEs and tertiary institutions.
The MLTAWA, along with all the
other state associations, is affiliated with the national body, the
Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Association (AFMLTA),
which is involved in a range of activities aimed at promoting the teaching
and learning of languages. These include representing language teachers in
the formulation of government languages policies and initiatives at the
federal level.
Our state association, the MLTAWA,
represents Western Australian languages teachers at a national and state
level through promoting the teaching and learning of languages, lobbying
on significant issues, advising and preparing submissions for governments,
committees, industry and the community, providing professional leadership
at the state level across all languages and phases of schooling, compiling
and distributing information about language learning and teaching through
newsletters and emails and supporting the professional development of
languages teachers through conferences, seminars and workshops.
The MLTAWA is the umbrella
organization for all languages and, as such, complements and supports the
work of the various “unilingual” or single language associations that
represent all of the individual languages taught in Western Australia. Our
role is to focus on Big Picture issues that are relevant to all languages,
promoting debate and discussion within and across languages. This creates
solid ground and purpose for the unilinguals to focus on relevant,
language-specific issues that are proving beneficial to hundreds of
Western Australian language teachers.
Strengthening our common ground is
essential to our aim of increasing the number of Western Australian
students who continue their language learning through to the adult years,
ensuring they reach the highest possible levels of achievement. This will
undoubtedly prove invaluable in creating future world citizens.
