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25.01.2022 Greetings from Mrs Jieqi Zhang, President of the CLTAWA and the 2018 Planned Events are attached. Dear Member Colleagues, Thank you very much for being a valuable member of CLTAWA. Your continuous involvement and support of the Association is the key to keeping CLTAWA vibrant. I also would like to welcome our new members who have recently joined us. We currently have over 150 members. CLTAWA has been growing enormously in 2017. With the tireless devotion and dedication of the...Continue reading

25.01.2022 Congratulations, last night on 25 October 2017, our secretary of CLTAWA, Li Liu has received the Outstanding Professional Service Awards and Media Awards from the Professional Teaching Council of Western Australia (PTCWA)! All CLTAWA Executive Committee members attended the presentation nights at Tompkins on Swan in Alfred Cove. Mr Murray Robertson, Director of Staffing and Strategic Projects and Mrs Nicky Griffin Appadoo, Head of Language Department from Christ Church Grammar School also attended the presentation night. Congratulations Li!

25.01.2022 Congratulations Jieqi and Oberthur team! Last Saturday, 11 November 2017 Jieqi and Oberthur team did an amazing workshop at the 2017 WA CLIL Conference at Curtin University to showcase their success in their Immersion Chinese programme. Seven staff from Oberthur spoke/presented at the Conference. Their workshops have received lost positive feedback. Lots of great ideas to take away from the session no matter you are using CLIL or not. Congratulations Jieqi and Oberthur team for the wonderful achievements you have made and we look forward to hearing more Chinese teaching and learning stories from you and we would like to have more workshops like this in the future! About 20 Chinese teachers attended the 2017 WA CLIL Conference.

24.01.2022 Dear Chinese teachers, you are all invited to the 2017 CLTAWA AGM on Saturday 18 November from 12:30pm at Oberthur Primary School, Bull Creek. Starting the afternoon with a lunch and networking till 1:30pm. AGM is scheduled from 1:30-2:30pm. From 2:45pm, you can choose one of the three PD sessions. The day will end with a Questions and Responses Forum. You can send questions you would like to be discussed at the Forum to [email protected] To register, also please email... [email protected] for catering purposes by Wednesday 15 November 2017 It surely will be a wonderful day for all Chinese teachers! We look forward to seeing you all! CLTAWA Committee See more

22.01.2022 The 24th Chinese Language Teachers' Federation of Australian (CLTFA) National Conference has been successfully concluded in Canberra in July 2018. We would like... to congratulate and thank the CLTAACT for their dedication for hosting the National Conference. On 13-14 July 2019 CLTAWA will be hosting the 25th CLTFA National Conference in Perth. We would like to welcome Chinese language teachers, educational professionals and language experts, from all over the world, to meet us in the beautiful city of WA-Perth. Stay tuned, more information will be released on the Cltawa Perth Facebook. Details of this year's conference, please see the following news report from ASCC. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/frcEZE1J9XIH8R7M6-U0dg

22.01.2022 2018 CLTAWA Principals and Teachers Cocktails was successfully held on Thursday, 22 March 2018 at the Unversity Club at UWA, Crawley. The annual event provides... a great opportunity for teachers and principals to talk with fellow teachers and principals offering a Chinese language program at their schools and network with people from different education sectors. Over 60 school leaders, Chinese teachers, and guests attended the event including the Ms JIN Deputy Consul General of P.R.China in Perth, Ms Hudson and Ms Douglas from School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA), Ms Civa from MLTAWA, Ms Reitzenstein from AISWA, Ms Howard from CEWA, Ms Maddocks from OMI and Ms Driver from Confucius Insitute.

22.01.2022 Australia China Friendship Society of Western Australia (ACFS) has invited all CLTAWA members to join the ACFS WA 2017 Christmas Picnic on this Sunday, 10 December at Bank Reserve, Joel Terrance, Mt Lawley from 11:30 pm to 3 pm. No registration is required. Friends and family are welcome. Please bring a dish to share. Soft drinks will be provided. A flyer has been attached for your convenience. Hope to see you at the Picnic this Sunday.

22.01.2022 CLTAWA Chinese New Year Celebration Picnic and Community Launch of Professional Learning Projects supported by the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI) at Shelley Foreshore on 25 February 2017.

19.01.2022 Dear WA language teachers, please see the following important information in relation to language teaching, assessing and reporting from School Curriculum and S...tandards Authority (SCSA). "While schools must formally implement the Year 3 Languages syllabus from the Outline by the end of Semester 1, 2018, teaching, assessing and reporting on student achievement for all other years will continue to be against the Curriculum Framework. If a school is delivering Languages from the Outline to other year groups, teachers must report student achievement against the year level achievement standard. For Pre-primary, Year 1 and Year 2, schools may implement Languages syllabuses from the Outline in 2018 including, teaching, assessing and reporting to parents/carers by the end of Semester 1, 2018. However, should a school decide to implement the curriculum for Years 4, 5 and/or 6 in 2018, or before the year in which the syllabuses are scheduled for implementation (Year 4 in 2019, Year 5 in 2020, Year 6 in 2021), the reasons should be based on the Language teachers professional judgement that the students have had sufficient exposure to the curriculum content and opportunity to acquire the linguistic skills required to confidently meet the achievement standards of the syllabus for that year. The full circular can be found at:

18.01.2022 EOI: Meeting to discuss SCSA Chinese courses eligibility and enrolments This meeting is intended for high school teachers only, however primary school teachers are welcome to attend. Dear CLTAWA Members, We have received a few emails from high school teachers regarding SCSA eligibility requirements and enrolments for the Chinese language courses. Some teachers and parents have expressed their confusions and concerns. To gather more information from teachers and to see how we ...can assist teachers as an Association, CLTAWA would like to invite teachers who are interested in this issue to have a meeting on Wednesday, 24th of January at Oberthur Primary School. Please bring the eligibility forms of your students and any communications from SCSA to the meeting in order to have a better understanding of SCSA judging criteria. Hopefully, we can come up with some suggestions for SCSA when making decisions for the eligibility of our students. Your valuable input will be considered and compiled into a document to be sent to SCSA by CLTAWA. Time: 10:00 am -12:00 pm Date: Wednesday, 24 January 2018 Venue: Oberthur Primary School Please bring all the documents including forms of your students and any SCSA responses to the meeting. Please reply to this email to register by 22 January 2018. Have a lovely holiday! Li Liu Secretary Chinese Language Teachers' Association of Western Australia (CLTAWA)

16.01.2022 Congratulations to the recipients of the 2017 CLTAWA Exemplary Teachers Awards to recognize their hard work and dedication as well as to acknowledge, honour and celebrate their exceptional teaching Chinese in WA. Congratulations Luhan and Meili! Lu-Han Lin Farrell-primary school category Meili Chen-community school category

15.01.2022 CLTAWA Principals and Chinese Teachers Cocktails at The University Club (UWA) on 23 March 2017

14.01.2022 WA teachers attended the 2017 National Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers' Federation of Australia (CLTFA) on 8-9 July 2017 in Sydney. Eight WA teachers have successfully received the CLTAWA scholarships for attending the CLTFA Conference. Laura Sydenham (Shenton College) held a workshop of sharing ideas on how to make learning Characters less stressful and more interesting for students. Her workshop has received many positive feedbacks at the Conference. Fantastic ...Job, Laura! Jieqi Zhang, President of CLTAWA and Chunhua Liu (Rossmoyne SHS) also met and consulted with Mr Wei Leu about the Chinese as the First Language Course in WA. Mr Wei Leu is the author of Chinese Background Speakers Stage 6 Courses Teachers' Guide. He is currently the Head of Language Department of Chatswood HS and the Curriculum Coordinator of Chatswood HS Centre of Saturday School of Community Languages. Possible future support and training from Wei have also been discussed. See more

14.01.2022 2017 CLTAWA State Writing Competition results

14.01.2022 2017 CLTAWA State Mandarin Speaking Competition (Second Language Learners) at the Alexander Theatre at University of Western Australia on 16 September 2017

12.01.2022 2017 CLTAWA Pandas' Picnic (Primary School Excursion)

10.01.2022 2017 CLTAWA 2nd Professional Learning Development

10.01.2022 2017 WA CLIL Conference is on next Friday afternoon 10 November and next Saturday, 11 November at Curtin University. "If you teach students who are unfamiliar to a language, or you lead those who do, this conference will help you enrich language learning experiences. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) encourages teachers and learners to rethink what it means to be someone using language."

08.01.2022 http://www.australiaplus.com//chinese-bilingual-sc/8964610

08.01.2022 Yi Wang has organised the first exciting fundraising auction event after the 2017 AGM: Competing with other bidders, Xuanli Ma in the end successfully bought the Pipa (a traditional Chinese instrument) donated by Yi Wang at the price of $215. Yi Wang donated the $215 to the Association.... Thanks Yi Wang for donating your Pipa and the fun experiences we all had on the day!

08.01.2022 Invitation to Chu Lao Shi Farewell at Confucius Institute UWA next Thursday 30 November at the UWA Claremont Campus from 5:30pm. Director Chu, widely known as Chu Lao Shi is returning to China after five incredible years coordinating the Confucius Institute Chinese Language Support Program in WA. He has run the program with great enthusiasm and his service has benefited many WA schools, teachers and students. UWA Confucius Insitute, Chinese Language Teachers Association of WA... and Austrailia China Friendship Society will hold a special event to say farewell to Director Chu for his great contribution to the Chinese teaching and learning in WA. This also will be a great opportunity for you if you would like to know more about the CI Language Support Program and to see how you, your students and your school could receive support from Confucius Institute in the future. Refreshment will be provided. Dressing code: Smart casual To register, please reply to [email protected] with your full name and school by next Monday for catering purposes. We look forward to seeing you at the event. See more

08.01.2022 2017 CLTAWA Story Telling Competition (Background and First Language Speakers) at Alexander Theatre in UWA on 1 April 2017

05.01.2022 A preliminary meeting to discuss the WACE eligibility and enrolments will be held on Wednesday, 20 December 2017 at Riverton Library. The preliminary meeting to be held is because some public school teachers will still be on holiday, while some private school teachers will be back to work already on the 24 January 2018 as in the previous email sent to all CLTAWA members. However, there will still be a meeting in late January or early February in 2018 to discuss the matter. Please reply to let us know if you are attending. Also If you are teaching Year 11 or Year 12 students, will you please bring the enrolment forms or any communications with SCSA or parents related to the eligibility? Thank you! Li Liu Secretary

05.01.2022 CLTAWA had the 2017 AGM and PD last Saturday 18 November at Oberthur PS. Many than 70 teachers attended the AGM & PD. Mr Tim Bamer, Principal of Oberthur Primary School, Mr Geoff Davis (OM), CLTAWA life member and Principal Hong from Chung Wah Association were our special guests. Congratulations to the new elected 2018 CLTAWA Committee including: President: Jieqi Zhang Vice President: Bonnie Woo... Treasurer: Hua Li Secretary: Li Liu Committee Members: Yi Wang, Xuanli Ma, Angie Yuxuan Liu (Angie), Laura Sydenham, Jia Liao. Coopted Committee Member: Apple Chu CLTAWA is committed to continuing providing quality service to our members in the new year. There are many wonderful events that have planned for 2018 to be released shortly. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support in the year of 2017 and we look forward to your continuous support on us in 2018! See more

02.01.2022 CLTAWA members attended the Chu Lao Shi Farewell at the Confucius Institute at UWA Claremont Campus on Thursday, 30 November 2017. President Jieqi Zhang presented Chu Lao Shi a trophy, a certificate, a small pressie and a card signed by members in recognition of Chu Lao Shi's great contribution to Chinese language teachers/Chinese programs in WA. Chu Lao Shi, you will be greatly missed by us and we wish you the very best on your next adventure! Professor Chu, widely known as Chu Lao Shi has been the Associate Director of Confucius Institute UWA for the past five years. He is returning China at the end of Semester Two in 2017.

02.01.2022 All members are invited to our Annual Chinese New Year Gathering on Saturday, 24 February at Shelley Beach Park in Shelly. This is a great opportunity to meet ...other CLTAWA members, to network and to socialise while relaxing and enjoying delicious food! Confucius Institute teachers and teacher assistants will also join us on the day. Please bring a plate a share. Sausage sizzle and drinks are provided, there will also be lots of raffle prizes to win. It surely will be a fun day for us all! To register, please reply by Wednesday, 21 February 2018 for catering purposes. Btw, if you haven't renewed your membership yet, will you please bring cash along, our treasurer Hua will assist you with your renewal. The 2018 membership form and the updated CLTWA 2018 Planned Events are attached for your convenience. Look forward to seeing you all at this year's CNY Gathering! 2017-2018 Committee

02.01.2022 CLTAWA just held its annual Chinese New Year Celebration Gathering Picnic at Shelley on Saturday 24 February. 60 day school and community Chinese teachers, Conf...ucius Institute teachers & assistants and ACFS members attended the Gathering. President, Jieqi Zhang has welcomed all participants and introduced the committee members and the special guests on the day, including Tim Bamber, principal of Oberthur PS, who thanked all Chinese teachers and CI assistants for their great work of the year; Director Song of Confucius Institute was not able to attend the Gathering, Qin Xu, Associate Director of Confucius Institute, who gave a thank you speech on behalf of Confucius Institute, Qin has also introduced all CI assistants to the day school and community, Chinese teachers. Jieqi has also thanked all the teachers and assistants for their hard work of the year and the ongoing support received from Confucius Institute and the Australia China Friendship Society. Jieqi also highlighted the importance of the regular communication between different parties in order to build a good supportive relationship. There were also fun games and activities organized by the Committee member Yi Wang. "People library", "Tug of war", "Raffle draw" and "Tai Chi" have brought lots of laughter at the Picnic. It was a day full of good food, laughter, and fun! Wish everyone a Happy New Year!

02.01.2022 CLTAWA will be holding the 2nd "Walk the Talk" Year 3 and Year 4 WA Curriculum: Languages - Chinese, whole day Workshop on Saturday, 10 February 2018 at Oberthu...er Primary School in Bull Creek from 8:45 am -3:20 pm. To register, please read the attached flyer for more information then RSVP to this email by Thursday 8th February 2018. Please inform us of any dietary requirements. Certificate of participation will be provided to participants indicating the PL hours completed. Note: The workshop focuses on Year 3 and Year 4, however, anyone interested is welcome to attend. We hope to see more teachers to participate this PD to support the implementation of the WA Curriculum Languages-Chinese. Cltawa Perth

01.01.2022 2017 CLTAWA First Professional Learning Development at Leeming Senior High School on 26 May 2017.

01.01.2022 CLTAWA welcomes roll-out compulsory language classes for Year 3 students from 2018 by WA Authorities. "The Department of Education said more than 150 primary school principals indicated that they wanted to employ language teachers in 2018." http://www.abc.net.au//year-3-students-will-learn/9167940