An Exciting Professional Development Opportunity

(available to WILTA members only!)

Funding is available to a WILTA member to travel to Bali for a three-week professional development opportunity during January 2011 and work with the Indonesian Australian Language Foundation (IALF) and a local school. Is 2011 your year for the RTV?

WILTA has established the Reciprocal Teacher Visit programme to achieve the following outcomes:

• Provide opportunitiesfor teachers to participate in a teaching role whilst being immersed in the everyday interactions of an Indonesian classroom.
• Provide opportunities for our own student learners of Indonesian to experience the benefits of classroom interaction with a background speaker of the Indonesian language.
• Provide opportunities for professional development both linguistically and socio-culturally.
• Enhance the profile of LOTE and WILTA within our schools and the wider community.
• Establish an ongoing relationship with an Indonesian teaching organization.
• Increase international awareness of the education systems within Western Australia.

Here’s what you will do:

• Teach several classes of English at the Indonesia Australia Language Foundation.
• Be attached to a school (primary or secondary-depending on the recipient’s area of expertise) to teach English. WILTA will negotiate the teaching load on your behalf.
• Follow your own plan of professional development, for example, resource development, development of collegiate networks, Indonesian language study or any other form determined in consultation with the selection committee.
• Provide feedback to WILTA in the form of a journal or formal report and a completed evaluation sheet.
• Participate in the management or administration of the WILTA Reciprocal Teacher Visit programme in the following year as well as contributing to the development of a file on the programme.

WILTA will pay for

• Return airfare, departure tax and travel insurance.
• Accommodation: one week in a home stay and two weeks in a hotel chosen by WILTA.
• Weekly expenses allowance of $200. All expenses need to be documented or receipted, with surplus funds being re-allocated to the WILTA account for future Reciprocal Teacher visits.

Eligibility criteria:

To be considered for selection, applicants must:

• possess a recognised teaching qualification
• be currently employed in Indonesian language education in Western Australia
• have been a member of WILTA for at least 12 months prior to making the application.
• have a minimum of 12 months’ classroom teaching experience.

How to apply:

NOTE:

• Dates to be determined by the IALF and WILTA. Recipients may extend the visit to Bali (at either end) at own expense. Family members and friends are discouraged from accompanying the recipient during the programme.
• The cost of the recipient's travel to Perth for the flight to Bali is not covered by this scholarship.
• The recipient must meet other living expenses above the daily allowance allocated as part of the scholarship.

Want to know more?

Download the Application Form below and submit by 5pm Friday 6 August 2010