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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION www.education.nt.gov.au DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION www.education.nt.gov.au
WTitle of Presentation
AFMLTA Conference 2015 www.education.nt.gov.au
Languages Education
An NT Perspective
July 2015
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION www.education.nt.gov.au
Our Plan for Today …
Today we will share• Our context
Who we are … Where we’ve been
• Our destination Where we’re going …
• Our journey What we are doing … Where we’re up to
• Our reflections What we’ve learnt …
• Your feedback What you think … What you learned
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Who we are …
Top 5 Languages Spoken at Home
NT AustraliaOnly English – 62.8% Only English – 76.8%
Kriol – 1.9% Mandarin – 1.6%Djambarrpuyngu –1.4% Italian – 1.4%
Greek – 1.3% Arabic – 1.3%Warlpiri – 1.1% Cantonese – 1.2%
33,000 Students154 Government schools 67 Small remote Schools
17 Catholic schools22 Independent schools
Characteristics NT Nationally
Indigenous students 40% 5 %
Speak an Indigenous Language 16.2% 0.3%
Identify as LBOTE 37.2% 23%
Live in remote and very remote areas 45% 2%
In Northern Territory, 27% of people spoke a language other than English at home in 2011.
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Who we are …• Languages Centres in Darwin and Alice
Springs provide languages programs to 40 schools using face to face and distance learning modes:
Indonesian JapaneseChinese ArrenteSpanish French …
• The most commonly taught World Languages in NT schools:
Indonesian JapaneseChinese Modern Greek
• 436 students study a language as part of Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training in 2015 (Years 11 – 12)
• 263 of these are enrolled in an Asian languages
• 8 Schools offer Bilingual Programs (Indigenous language/s & English)
• Most remote schools provide Language & Culture Programs using language maintenance and/or revitalisation pathways
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The History of Languages Education
Where we’ve been …
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What are three things
this summary tells you?
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The Northern Territory Board of Studies
Aiming to strengthen the teaching and learning of languages in schools through:• Provision of advice relating to
languages education in NT an• Development of an implementation
plan for Australian Curriculum: Languages
• Identification of appropriate model/s for delivery of the Languages curriculum.
Where we’re going …
• Languages Learning Area• Indigenous Languages and
Culture
NT Curriculum Framework
• Language Specific Curricula (World Languages)
• Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages
Australian Curriculum
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Northern Territory Department of Education Strategic Plan 2013-2015
Goal 5: Building Productive Partnerships • Strategy 3- Create opportunities to
share and build Asian cultural understandings and language expertise to support greater regional economic collaboration.
• Strategy 4 - Work in partnerships with communities to build Indigenous cultural and language understandings to support local economic development.
Where we’re going …
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The NT International Education and Training Strategy 2014-2024
Aiming to strengthen the relationship between the NT and Asia through:• Study tours - Chinese Provinces• Asian languages in schools - Chinese, Japanese and
Indonesian• International exchange grants - students, teachers,
scholars, professionals, scientists and artists• Languages teaching capability - professional
development, innovative recruitment and teacher exchanges
• Pre-service teacher training - Asian languages
Where we’re going …
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What challenges
and opportunities
does this raise?
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What we’re doing …
Engagement Phase2013
Research Phase2014
Development & Communication
Phase2015
Implementation Phase2016
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Goa
l All students in the NT have access to a rich and comprehensive languages education, developing the communicative skills and intercultural capabilities that will allow active engagement with and contribution to local and global communities in their present and future lives.
Visi
onLeaders at all levels from the system to the classroom, build a culture that promotes systematic and purposeful languages learning Pr
inci
ples
Quality of languages education Continuity of languages education Provision of languages programs Sustainability of languages resources
Mea
sure
s Student perceptionsStudent progressStudent achievement Student participation
D R A F T
Where we’re up to …
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Expert Teams Improvement agenda / Plan
Effective Practices
Coordinated Partnerships
Collection and Analysis of Data
A Culture that promotes languages learning
Curriculum Delivery Planned Use of resourcesDifferentiation
Where we’re up to …
Working within a School Improvement
Frame
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Principles Strategies Milestones Measures
Quality languages learning
1. Expert teams2. Effective Practices
Identify a team of experts and establish ways to align and support their roles • Student
perceptions
• Student
progress
• Student
achievement
• Student
participation
Continuity of Languages Learning
3. Coordinated partnerships4. A culture that promotes languages
learning
Establish and strength language pathways and monitor the quality of teaching and learning at each stage of schooling
Provision of Languages Programs
5. Curriculum delivery6. Differentiation
Provide tools to develop school level scope and sequence plans and increase the number of students who are engaged with languages learning at each stage of schooling
Sustainability of languages resources
7. Improvement agenda/plan 8. Planned use of resources9. Collection and analysis of data
Complete profile of languages educator profiles and re-activate Language Teachers’ Association of Northern Territory
D R A F T
Where we’re up to …
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• Conscious awareness of own and others’ perceptual positions
• Being persistent in the use of a rigorous research and evidence base
• Conceptualising scalability
• Keeping the child in the centre• Moving from theory to practice• Respecting past and present effort• Working through change
management processes• Contextualising languages within
School improvement • Balancing the workload – the
content, the communication, the networks ….
What we’ve learnt …
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What did you notice?Strengths, positive elements
and connectionsor
Issues, confusions, problematic aspects, gaps
and disconnects
Thoughts …
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Thank you!
Marisa BoscatoSenior Manager Curriculum Department of Education, Northern [email protected]
Weifeng Mao ConsultantDepartment of Education, Northern Territory [email protected]