School Support Services Newsletters
TEAM Solutions Secondary School ESOL Newsletter Term 3: 2006
Greetings, ESOL teachers
We trust that you are refreshed and in good health at the start of the term. As you work together with your mainstream colleagues to ensure that individual students achieve their potential, we offer this whakatauki:
Mä te mahitahi ka tütuki ngä whiwhinga - by working together we can achieve our goal.
The ESOL team of facilitators would like to thank all those ESOL and mainstream teachers who took part in the ELIP project last term. All the participants agreed on the value of working in a cross curricula team to produce units of work in mainstream subject areas that had a specifically language focus. The intention is to finish those units of work and make them available on line. If you would like to discuss using the ELIP resource by yourself or with mainstream colleagues, please contact one of the ESOL team.
ESOL Online
Wanting to run some professional development with your colleagues? Check out the new
principles for planning that show how to integrate language and content objectives.
Grad DipTESSOL
This is for you and your mainstream colleagues! Talk to colleagues who are on the course or have done the course. Watch out for the scholarship application forms that will be in your school this term. The scholarships pay the university fees of the core Grad Dip TESSOL papers. Any queries, contact Jenni Bedford or Margaret Kitchen. Email:
j.bedford@auckland.ac.nz;
m.kitchen@auckland.ac.nz
Curriculum Project
Copies of the Draft Curriculum will be in schools after the launch by the Minister of Education on 31 July.
We Encourage schools to become familiar with the background, explore the draft when it arrives and be part of the consultation process. The place of ESOL in the Curriculum is still a question that requires more discussion. It is imperative that ESOL teachers enter into dialogue with mainstream teachers to ensure that the needs of new learners of English will be adequately met in all areas of the curriculum.
The website is www.cmp.ac.nz. It is being updated constantly and a key message we have been asked to give to schools is that they become familiar with the website, ahead of and during the consultation period, late July - late November 2006.
CLESOL Conference September 29 - October 2. Website www.clesol.org.nz
Have you registered?
Key dates for your diary:
WORKSHOPS
The following two workshops will be held at Kohia Teachers' Centre. You need to ring or email to book a place: 623 8977 or email
kohia@auckland.ac.nz
| Title |
Date |
Facilitators |
| Focus on language in texts for teachers of ESOL students |
Wednesday, 2 August |
Lyn Groves, Denise McKay |
| ESOL HoD Update |
Thursday, 7 September |
Jenni Bedford, Helen Panayiodou |
ESOL Professional Learning Community meetings (AKA Cluster meetings)
| Area |
Coordinator |
School |
Next meeting |
| North Shore |
Penny Fraser |
Takapuna Grammar
489 4176 ext 204 |
|
| South Auckland |
Sandra Paulus |
Auck SDA High School
275 9640 |
|
| Manukau/ Counties |
Heather Kilgour |
Papakura High School
296 4400 ext 746 |
Wednesday 26 July 3.45pm
Papkura High School |
| South/Eastern |
Simon Crosby |
Pakuranga College
534 7159 ext 733 |
Thursday 10 Aug 4pm
Sacred Heart College |
| West |
Dawn Burling |
Massey High School
831 0500 |
Tuesday 1 August 3.30pm |
| Central (1) |
Tjitske Hunter |
Marcellin College
625 7376 ext 714 |
Marcellin College |
| Central (2) |
Christine Irving |
Epsom Girls’ Grammar
630 5963 ext 729 |
Thursday 31 August 4pm
Epsom Girls’ Grammar |
| Hibiscus Coast |
Breda Mathews |
Mahurangi College
(09) 425 8039 |
|
| Whangarei |
Pat Pishief |
Whangarei Girls’ High
(09) 430 4400 |
|
| Refugee Cluster |
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Thursday 14 Sept 3.30pm
Birkenhead College |
AKTESOL meeting Thursday 21 September at Kohia Teachers' Centre, from 6.30 -9pm: 'Clayton's CLESOL'
There will be discussion of the Draft Curriculum followed by a variety of presentations by participants at the CLESOL Conference.
Have you renewed your AKTESOL membership? www.tesolanz.org.nz
Membership form attached
Refugee Cluster Meeting: Thursday, 14 September, Birkenhead College, 3.30
Invited guest: Gary Poole, Chief Executive, Refugees As Survivors (RAS), will present an illustrated talk on life inside refugee camps and how this affects individuals, families, and children.
More Refugee News
If you have five or more refugee students in your school and would like to set up a homework centre for them, then contact Abraham Mamer: abraham.mamer@minedu.govt.nz
When new refugee students are enrolled in your school make sure the support worker or the family passes over the report from the Mangere Refugee Centre. Every student is issued with a report and it is placed in a 'Departure Kit' in a clearfile before the family leaves the centre. If you do not get one, then a copy can be obtained form the MoE - contact Abraham or Nikhat Abbas: nikhat.abbas@minedu.govt.nz
Refugees: Telling their stories - a national competition to build understandings of refugee experiences. For full competition details and registration forms see the Petone Settlers Museum's website www.petonesettlers.org.nz
Competition:
VTS is inviting secondary aged refugee students and their teachers or tutors living in Auckland to contribute a short article, poem or piece of visual art (photo, drawing, painting etc) to be printed in this year's Reflections magazine.
Prizes to be won!!
Send your contributions to:
Heidi Birgel
VTS Coordinator
PH 921 9999 ext 6357
heidi.birgel@aut.ac.nz |
Postal address
Centre for Refugee Education
Private Bag 92006
Auckland 1020 |
Deadline 6 October 2006
Communications
ESOL group email: If you are not on the group email or your address has changed or, if you are a new HoD, could you please send us any change of address/email to
l.groves@auckland.ac.nz
The ESOL team welcomes your enquiries and can come to visit you at school, give online and phone support. We can work with you on whole staff development, department planning as well as modeling strategies through team teaching. We look forward to working with you this year.
Jenni Bedford
Ph: 6238880 x48349
j.bedford@auckland.ac.nz
Lyn Groves
Ph: 623 8880 x46364
l.groves@auckland.ac.nz
Denise McKay
Ph: 6238880 X46335
d.mckay@auckland.ac.nz
Helen Panayiodou
Ph: 623 8880 x48334
h.panayiodou@auckland.ac.nz
