Professional Development

Workshops

These one off workshops offer a quick insight into an area of language, culture or pedagogy. Specific dates are offered or you can contact us to have one of these workshops delivered to a group of teachers in your area.

Kaffeeklatsch November 2020

Workshops

Thursday, 5 November 2020

German pretzel making workshop in Auckland

Workshops

2 hours

Saturday 14 November, 2020

CLIL – Teaching Languages at Primary and Intermediate Schools

Workshops

6 hours

Thursday 3 December 2020

Supporting Teaching and Learning French in Primary and Intermediate Schools

Workshops

6 hours

Thursday, 19 November 2020

Sharing of resources and practices for teachers of French-English bilingual units in New Zealand

Workshops

2 day programme

22 and 23 October, 2020

Developing Students’ Engagement in Learning French

Workshops

6 hours, 30 minutes

Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Tapasā – Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Pacific Learners

Workshops

Available on request

Support for Chinese in Schools: teachers and school clusters

Workshops

5 hours

Wednesday 11 November 2020

Exploring online Spanish reading resources

Workshops

1 hour

Monday, 12 October 2020 and Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Exploring online Spanish listening resources

Workshops

1 hour

Tuesday, 13 October and Monday, 19 October 2020

Teaching Beginner Learners

Workshops

Available on request

Teacher Use of (Spoken) Target Language

Workshops

Available on request

Integrating Language Learning with Tikanga Harakeke for Kahui Ako learners

Workshops

Available on request

Student Use of (Spoken) Target Language

Workshops

Available on request

Learning Languages for Beginner Students in Years 7-10

Workshops

2 hours

Cultures in Language Classrooms for Beginner Students in Years 7-10

Workshops

2 hours

Unpacking the new Digital Technology Curriculum in the Language Classroom

Workshops

2 hours

Resource Making for Languages - Years 7-10

Workshops

2 hours

Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) for Beginner Students - Years 7-10

Workshops

2 hours

Developing Intercultural Communicative Competency through Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach for Beginner Students - Years 7-10

Workshops

2 hours

Generating Communicative Tasks from a Topic for Beginner Students - Years 7-10

Workshops

2 hours

Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching (iCLT) for Beginner Students - Years 7-10

Workshops

2 hours

Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching (iCLT) and the Treaty of Waitangi

Workshops

Understanding and Applying the Ellis Principles

Workshops

2 hours

How to Increase the Repertoire of Formulaic Expressions in Your Classroom (How do you say...?)

Workshops

1 hour, 30 minutes

Available face-to-face only

What is a Task?

Workshops

1 hour

German Workshop: German Christmas in the classroom - creative pedagogy workshop

Workshops

Grow Programmes

A year-long programme made up of a series of workshops designed to support teachers to develop measurable capability in the effective teaching of languages, and foster strong inter-school support networks. Face-to-face sessions, online sessions, and in-school support.

GROW 1 - An Inquiry Programme for Language Teachers

GROW Programmes

9 month programme

22 February - 18 October 2021

GROW 2 - Flipped Learning in the Language Classroom

GROW Programmes

10 month programme

February - November 2021

GROW 3 - New Languages Programme for Primary

GROW Programmes

9 month programme

5 March - 9 November 2021

GROW 4 - Effective Resources - Primary (Auckland)

GROW Programmes

9 month programme

12 March - 16 November 2021

GROW 5 - Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) - Years 1-10

GROW Programmes

10 month programme

26 February - 2 November 2021

GROW 6 - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)-Integrate Other Subjects into Language Teaching

GROW Programmes

6 month programme

19 February - 4 August 2021

GROW 7 - Deaf Education-Building Capacity for Teachers of the Deaf

GROW Programmes

10 month programme

26 February - 15 November 2021

GROW 8 - Growing Strong Language Teachers-a Programme for Beginning Teachers of Languages (less than 3 years' experience)

GROW Programmes

6 month programme

17 February - 3 August 2021

GROW 9 - Enhancing the Skills of Chinese Native Speaker Language Teachers

GROW Programmes

6 month programme

15 February - 16 August 2021

GROW 10 - Inclusive Education in the Languages Classroom

GROW Programmes

9 month programme

2 March- 11 November 2021

GROW 11 - Introducing NZSL in to the Primary and Intermediate Classroom

GROW Programmes

10 month programme

24 February - 10 November 2021

GROW 12 - Leadership for Aspiring and New HODs of Languages

GROW Programmes

10 month programme

23 February - 9 November 2021

GROW 13 - He waka eke noa-Teacher Collaboration Across the Curriculum

GROW Programmes

6 month programme

26 February - 19 August 2021

GROW 14 - Steering Students Towards Meaningful Spoken Communication

GROW Programmes

9 month programme

15 February - 20 October 2021

GROW 15 - Teachers of Pacific Languages in the “new normal”

GROW Programmes

6 month programme

4 March - 26 August 2021

GROW 16 - Thriving as Teachers of Multi-level Classes

GROW Programmes

10 month programme

24 February - 17 November 2021

GROW 17 - Whole Department Approach - Working as a Team on a Shared Inquiry and Building Capacity as a Languages Department

GROW Programmes

9 month programme

2 March - 9 November 2021

GROW 18 - Teaching a Language as a Native Speaker

GROW Programmes

10 month programme

18 February - 2 November 2021

GROW 19 - Equitable Education in Language Learning

GROW Programmes

9 month programme

5 March - 9 November 2021

Immersion Programmes

Unique professional development opportunities in New Zealand and abroad for teachers of Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. Teachers are able to engage more deeply with the language and culture of the languages they teach which has great and lasting effects upon teacher capability, student achievement and the success of Learning Languages in New Zealand schools

French Immersion Programme - Stage de Tahiti

Immersion Programmes

13 - 25 April 2020

Domestic Immersion Programme

Immersion Programmes

27 September - 9 October 2020

Rotorua Immersion Weekend for Teachers of Languages

Immersion Programmes

2 day programme

Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 2020

Timaru Immersion Weekend for Teachers of Languages

Immersion Programmes

2 day programme

Friday 6 November to Sunday 8 November 2020

Immersion Programmes for Teachers of Japanese

Immersion Programmes

Latin American Immersion Programme

Immersion Programmes

One week Programme

22 November 2020 to 28 November 2020

Spanish Immersion Programme - Salamanca

Immersion Programmes

German Immersion Programmes for Teachers

Immersion Programmes

Programme for Asian Language Collaboration in Teaching

A programme of cluster-based, teacher-led action research for teachers of Chinese-Mandarin, Japanese or Korean.

PACT

Programme for Asian Language Collaboration in Teaching

6 month programme

February - December 2021

International Language Assistant Programme

This programme enables young native speakers from France, Germany and Spain to be employed as Language Assistants in New Zealand schools.

International Language Assistant Programme

1 year Programme

Master

The MASTER stream aims to identify next steps in self-directed, intensive and in-depth learning opportunities for teachers so that they can prepare for, or are supported in, their role as teachers and leaders in their schools and the wider Learning Languages community.

External

Master

Self-directed, intensive and in-depth learning opportunities