Expanding your language teaching toolkit

9.30am - 3.30pm - Registration from 9.00am

Loving tech or prefer more time-honoured strategies? This workshop blends the best of both worlds to offer a wide variety of activities to expand your language teacher toolkit. As a practising secondary teacher, Ian draws on his extensive experience teaching in a range of school settings to share strategies that can easily be integrated into lessons covering all macro-skill areas. Participants will leave with a wealth of ideas and resources to use in their own classrooms.

Teachers of all languages are encouraged to attend. While examples will come mainly from French and EAL, these can easily be adapted to other languages. Bringing a laptop will enhance participants’ access to the full range of suggested activities.

Ian is a highly engaging and dynamic French teacher and presenter, with extensive experience coordinating languages and year levels in schools and training language teachers at university level. With a Masters in Education specialising in curriculum development, he enjoys implementing innovative strategies in his own classroom practice. Ian draws on his French-teaching expertise in both private and public secondary settings to blend modern technologies and established strategies into a vibrant learning environment for his students.

Ian’s passion for extending students’ learning beyond the classroom in meaningful contexts, has also led him to organise statewide VCE seminars and inter-school immersion camps for senior French students, as well as numerous student tours and exchanges to New Caledonia and France.

I love the fantastic variety of workshops and conferences on offer. Always look forward to Critical Agendas PD’s.

Passionate &  Authentic Speakers – Meaningful Strategies

The best P.D. I have attended in living memory!” I loved every minute of this engaging, interesting and informative PD. And I have been teaching for 40+ years!

Just a big Thank you for giving us the opportunity to attend the Critical Agenda Workshop yesterday.  David presented a great program, lots of handy strategies and he was very engaging and supportive. Highly recommended.  I was very happy we did not have to do any Role play’s.

Loved the honesty in the sharing of information and strategies

Inspirational Speakers –  the knowledge gained will be so beneficial in my classrooms

“It is the first P.L. in a long long time that I haven’t been checking in with my watch.”

Keep up the fantastic PD opportunities! Very  professional and well-researched workshops and conferences.

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