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SENIOR SCHOOL PROGRAMS OFFICER
Mr Peter Shaw-Truex
LOTE and Language Programs
Ballarat
P: 5337 8459 Mobile: 0417392457 Email:
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The role of the LOTE Project Officer is to assist schools by: - promoting the benefits of learning languages, including their role in assisting the development of literacy skills, in order to encourage all schools to provide LOTE programs
- facilitating the operation of LOTE specific teacher networks to enable the sharing of resources and strategies
- organising professional learning programs to facilitate the introduction of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, in particular the LOTE Standards, to assist schools with offering LOTE across other Domains, and to assist LOTE teachers with the implementation of the Principles of Learning and Teaching and new approaches to assessment and reporting
- assisting schools with the logistics of establishing a quality LOTE program of 150 minutes distributed across the week, provided by a qualified teacher, and
- assisting with teacher supply issues
Communication New! In the past years I established an email list for LOTE teachers in the Grampians Region. This website, as it develops in 2007, will become my main means of communicating with teachers. Information relevant to LOTE generally, details about LOTE professional development, links to suitable websites will be published here. I will continue to use the email list to inform teachers about recent updates on the Grampians website. If you have changed your preferred email or have not previously received emails from me please contact Peter Shaw-Truex
Languages, Literacy and Intercultural Understanding Learning languages contribute to essential skills needed in a globalised world, to the development of better literacy and intercultural skills."What languages are doing is providing a contrast, alternative ways to organise the world, to perceive reality" and in learning a LOTE children learn to deal with something that is other than themselves. It is through learning other languages that children reflect on language as a system much earlier and transfer what they are learning about language to their first language. They develop metalinguistics awareness and skills to understand languages as systems of making meaning.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "The cultural maps we hold in our minds to make sense of the world are tangible maps which we often mistake as immutable (unchangeable) truths.To dislodge the apparent immutability of our cultural interpretations of the world requires considerable effort. It requires educating the mind to identify cultural boundaries within which we operate and it requires the willingness to venture into the foreign and to potentially be changed by it." Source: Crozet, C., Liddicoat, A., & Lo Bianco, J. 1999, 'Intercultural competence: From language policy to language education'. In J. Lo Bianco, A. Liddicoat & C. Crozet (eds), Striving for the third place: Intercultural competence through language education, Melbourne: Language Australia, p. 4 More Why Learning Languages is Essential.pdf
LOTE Sites in Other Regions
Northern Metropolitan Region
Eastern Metropolitan Region
Other Grampians Region LOTE pages:
Assessment & Reporting | Cultural Diversity | Grants & Funding | Languages | Professional Development | Promoting Languages | Resources
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