Teaching and Learning Languages: A Guide is a new resource designed to promote reflection on language education, including languages programs, and the roles and pedagogical approaches of language teachers. It recognises the link between language, culture, and identity, and promotes the understanding of how teachers' and students' identities and experiences inform their teaching and learning, as well as the importance of developing intercultural capability, the ability to negotiate meaning across diverse social and linguistic contexts.
Policy to improve school leadership needs to address problems caused by devolution of managerial responsibilities to principals, and the constraints imposed by accountability mechanisms – Leading and Managing.
Seven independent schools in Victoria are participating in a pilot to explore how standards can be applied to measure the quality of teaching – Professional Educator.
Australia’s ability to make the most of its ties to Asia in terms of trade, policy and diplomacy could be undermined by low levels of graduates fluent in the region’s languages – The Age.