1. Multi-Lingual Learning Community
Yarra MLLC
Multi-Lingual Learning Community

2. Welcome and Prayer O Lord,
Grant me your strength, so I will have courage in every situation;
Grant me your love, so I may love others as you love me;
Grant me your wisdom, so I will show others the path to success;
Grant me your mercy, so I will forgive those who have hurt me;
Grant me your peace, so I will find the best in everybody;
Grant me your hope, so I will never give up;
Grant me your joy, so I will be thankful for all my blessings;
And Grant me your grace, so you will always be at my side. Amen
David Bennett

3. For an effective meeting today
We will

4. Australian Curriculum
Strand
Sub-strand
Communicating:
Using language for communicative purposes in interpreting, creating and exchanging meaning.
1.1 Socialising
1.2 Informing
1.3 Creating
1.4 Translating
1.5 Reflecting

5. Australian Curriculum
Understanding:
Analysing and understanding language and culture as resources for interpreting and shaping meaning in intercultural exchange.
2.1 Systems of language
Understanding language as a system, including sound, writing, grammatical and textual conventions.
2.2 Language variation and change
Understanding how languages vary in use (register, style, standard and non-standard varieties) and change over time and place.
2.3 The role of language and culture
Analysing and understanding the role of language and culture in the exchange of meaning.

6. Australian Curriculum
From Andrew Fergerson MLTAV March 5th:
What the AC means for your students #1
• Language-specific descriptions of expected
Achievement Standards, e.g. Italian
Years 3 and 4 Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students understand a range of spoken, written,
and multimodal texts on familiar topics, including home life, friends and
classroom activities. They use Italian to communicate and to interact, for
example, to exchange greetings and to address people, using
appropriate language and pronunciation ….
Australian Curriculum

7. Australian Curriculum
What the AC means for your students #2
• More ‘reflection’
Sub-Strand ‘Reflecting’
Participating in intercultural exchange, questioning reactions and
assumptions; and considering how interaction shapes communication
and identity, e.g. Identity in intercultural interaction ‘Thread’ (Indonesian Years 7 & 8;
7-10 Sequence)
“Participate in learning and using Indonesian, noticing
how aspects of identity such as family background, age, school and
interests impact on intercultural exchange”.
Australian Curriculum

8. Australian Curriculum
What the AC means for your students #3
• More ‘reflection’
Sub-Strand ‘Language Variation and Change’
Understanding how languages vary in use (register, style, standard and
non-standard varieties) and change over time and place, e.g.
Language change ‘Thread’ (French Years 9 & 10; F-10 Sequence)
Explore changes to both French and Australian English, and identify
reasons for these changes, such as technology, popular culture and
intercultural exchange
from Andrew Ferguson powerpoint to MLTAV teach meet March 5th at St James in Bentleigh.

9. Australian Curriculum
General capabilities
In the Australian Curriculum, general capabilities encompass knowledge, skills, behaviours, and dispositions that, together with curriculum content in each learning area and the cross-curriculum priorities, will enable students to live and work successfully in the 21st century.
There are seven general capabilities:
literacy
numeracy
information and communication technology (ICT) capability
critical and creative thinking
personal and social capability
ethical understanding
intercultural understanding.

10. Australian Curriculum
Cross-curriculum priorities
The Australian Curriculum gives special attention to three cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
sustainability.
Australian Curriculum

11. Australian Curriculum
Links to other learning areas
In addition to being a means through which people engage in communication, language is a means through which knowledge is constructed, developed, represented, negotiated, stored, contested, discussed, communicated, taught and learnt.
Australian Curriculum

12. Australian Curriculum
350 hours of learning undertaken across Foundation to Year 6 (the equivalent of 5% of the total teaching time per year)
160 hours of learning undertaken across Years 7 and 8 (the equivalent of 8% of the total teaching time per year)
a further 160 hours of learning undertaken across Years 9 and 10 (the equivalent of 8% of the total teaching time per year
Australian Curriculum

13. Australian Curriculum
indicative hours
total
per year
hr/week
min/week
F-6
350 50
yr7,8
160 80
yr9,10

14. Australian Curriculum
Where does what I teach now fit into the Australian Curriculum?
What is new for me?

15. Australian Curriculum
Strand
Sub-strand
Communicating:
Using language for communicative purposes in interpreting, creating and exchanging meaning.
1.1 Socialising
1.2 Informing
1.3 Creating
1.4 Translating
1.5 Reflecting

16. Australian Curriculum
Understanding:
Analysing and understanding language and culture as resources for interpreting and shaping meaning in intercultural exchange.
2.1 Systems of language
Understanding language as a system, including sound, writing, grammatical and textual conventions.
2.2 Language variation and change
Understanding how languages vary in use (register, style, standard and non-standard varieties) and change over time and place.
2.3 The role of language and culture
Analysing and understanding the role of language and culture in the exchange of meaning.

18. Hot issue Context
Evaluation
What could be done?
What happened? What will I try?

19. Solutions Sharing
People in my Solutions Group.
Names s
Commitment to share, evaluate and continue either at the next meeting on May 8th, or by if attending that meeting is not possible for you.

20. Feedback Something I learnt Something I taught others
Something I am still wondering about
My rating for this meeting out of 10 is:
any further thoughts…..