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Enhancing Language Education in Australian Schools: The MoRe.LEAPS Project

The MoRe.LEAPS project aims to elevate the quality of language teaching across Australian schools and improve student learning outcomes. By developing leadership among Language teachers and promoting their profiles within the school community, the initiative focuses on increasing the number of Lead Language teachers in Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean. The project will implement a leadership standard for language educators and provide professional development through structured learning phases, ultimately enhancing teachers' capabilities to mentor their peers.

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Enhancing Language Education in Australian Schools: The MoRe.LEAPS Project

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  1. Mentoring and Reflecting Language Educators and Professional Standards (MoRe LEAPS)

  2. Project Goal • MoRe LEAPS aims to contribute to the improvement in the quality of Languages teaching in Australian schools and to the overall improvement in students’learning outcomes • The project will develop leadership of Languages teachers and raise the profile of Languages teachers in the school community • This project will take to a new level the developments in language teaching supported through the Professional Standards Project

  3. Major goal of the project • to enhance the number of Lead Language teachers in NALSSP languages( Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean) • To enhance the number of Lead Language teachers with professional capacities to support and mentor language teacher colleagues • The development of a leadership standard for languages teachers

  4. Major goal of the project(cont) • The Lead Language Teachers will be able to use the Standards for Accomplished Teaching of Languages and Cultures (AFMLTA 2005) to support professional growth and describe and support the development of leadership attributes • Development of a leadership standard for languages teachers • http://pspl.afmlta.asn.au/

  5. Lead Language Teacher Candidates • 7 candidates selected from NSW will participate in 3 Learning Phases: • Learning Phase 1 –LLTCs engage in online process of gathering information using The Standards as a framework • Learning Phase 2-LLTCs attend a 2 day National workshop to explore new learning modules • Learning Phase 3-LLTCs will focus on their own investigative project which will be presented and showcased in Term 3 2012

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