Professional Learning

Our next Professional Learning workshop will be on Thursday 21 March 2013 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, 496 Regency Road, Enfield. This Professional Learning is suitable for senior secondary and VET teachers, and will introduce you to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF), whose use is becoming more widespread in relation to LLN/Foundation Skills education and training in VET.  Click here for the flyer, giving further details.

SA TESOL

SA TESOL supports and represents ESL educators in all educational sectors - primary, secondary, tertiary, adult and community - to achieve quality education for learners of English as an additional language or dialect (EALD). Download the constitution approved at the SA TESOL AGM in September 2012.

SA TESOL

• has over 100 members from primary, secondary, tertiary and community sectors
• provides representation for ESL educators at state and national forums
• provides a range of learning and development activities
• publishes and distributes state and national journals

SA TESOL provides a variety of learning and development activities. These focus on

• language teaching and learning
• cultural exchange
• ESL teacher standards
• advocacy

Other events include

• The Annual General Meeting
• The SA TESOL Dinner

Awards

SA TESOL sponsors three awards

Ann Sexton Memorial Award for merit students of Year 12 ESL

Outstanding Achievement in the Study of TESOL for tertiary students

ESL Teacher of the Year Award … ESL Teacher of the Year, sponsored by Satisfac and SA TESOL, to be presented at the Symposium dinner on the 1st October. Click here for further information.

Affiliations

SA TESOL is affiliated with ACTA - the Australian Council of TESOL Associations Inc - the national coordinating body representing all teachers of English to speakers of other languages.

SA TESOL participates in national bi-monthly telephone hookups with ACTA council members. Through ACTA, SA TESOL is represented on national working parties.

SA TESOL is also affiliated with CEASA - the Council of Educational Associations of South Australia. SA TESOL is represented at CEASA Council meetings and keeps informed of issues related to professional associations.

Conferences

Check the ACTA website for the latest details of conferences around Australia.

Publications

Through ACTA, SA TESOL members receive two editions per year of TESOL in Context. This publication contains articles form national and international writers. Click here to go to ACTA publications page.

ACTA also publishes occasional background papers. The four already published are: ESL and Literacy, The Role of the ESL Teacher, ESL as an Additional Language and ESL in the Global Hypermedia Environment.

SA TESOL publishes two editions of the SA TESOL Journal per year, containing articles from South Australian educators and support staff. Back copies of both journals are available. Click here to go to the SA TESOL publications page.

Membership

Members receive

• notification of SA TESOL events
• lower cost for the ACTA conference
• two editions per year of the ACTA journal TESOL In Context
• other background papers
• two editions per year of the SA TESOL Journal

Memberships are from 1st June to 31st May the following year. However, memberships received from 1st March will receive full membership of the proceeding year.

See the Join page for a membership form. Subscriptions are due in June each year.

Standards

SA TESOL has been collaborating with ACTA in the development of national teacher standards for both ESL teachers and for all teachers of ESL students, documented on the ACTA website.

Involvement

You can become involved by

• becoming a member
• sending in ideas or comments
• becoming a committee member
• writing articles for the journals giving a presentation on behalf of SA TESOL
• giving a presentation on behalf of SA TESOL

Privacy

SA TESOL has a privacy policy that endorses the National Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000.