WILTA is once again seeking expressions of interest from members who wish to have an Indonesia Australia Language Foundation (IALF) Bali teacher as a short term language assistant in their classroom for a week at the start of Term 2  2010.  Preference will be given to applicants who are also able to host Bapak/Ibu guru in their home during their time in Western Australia.

The focus of the visit will be to work in Indonesian language classes across all phases of learning, as a classroom assistant.  The RTV teacher will also be working with WILTA members in providing a professional development session at our May Weekend Workshop.  In return, a WILTA teacher will visit the IALF Bali in January 2011. Application information will be available shortly.

The RTV to Perth will occur during Weeks 1 to 5 of Term 2, 2010.

If you are interested in hosting the RTV teacher for a few days (up to one week) please complete the following expression of interest form below or print a copy and and return to:

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Rekan-rekan yang baik,

Selamat Tahun Baru kepada  semua anggota WILTA!  Asosiasi kita tahun ini mempunyai harapan besar bahwa pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia di Australia akan mulai menjalani kebangkitan lagi sesudah kesulitan beberapa tahun yang terakhir ini.

Di negara kita sekarang ada banyak kegiatan positif yang bisa membantu kebangkitan ini.  Antara inisiatif-inisiatif ini ada:  dana NALSSP yang sudah diterima beberapa sekolah dan universitas untuk proyek-proyek baru berkaitan dengan bahasa Indonesia, proyek BRIDGE yang sudah sangat sukses dan tahun ini memperluaskan pengaruhnya dengan penambahan sekolah-sekolah baru, dan kursus WACE 3A dan 3B yang pasti akan mengubah pelajaran bahasa Indonesia kelas 12 menjadi jauh lebih menarik dan cocok untuk generasi baru kita!

Di AGM WILTA yang diadakan pada tanggal 1 November 2009, ada pilihan pengurus WILTA untuk tahun 2010.  Kenalkan ....

Presiden: Sue Cooper
Sue mengajar Bahasa Indonesia di Guildford Grammar School.

Wakil Presiden:
Posisi kosong (siapa mau melamar?)

Bendaharawan: Alister Badenach
Alister mengajar bahasa Indonesia di Kerry Street Primary School, Hamilton Hill.

Sekretaris: Alison Beeston
Alison mengajar bahasa Indonesia (antara mata pelajaran yang lain!) di Mirrabooka Senior High School.

Redaktor  Warta WILTA: Kerry Bailey
Kerry sudah belajar bahasa Indonesia di Roleystone Primary School, TAFE, Murdoch dan Curtin, dan ikut serta program AIYEP ke Jawa Timur padatahun 08/09 dan Indonesian Arts & Culture Scholarship ke Solo pada tahun 2009.

Koordinator RTV: Dani Darudana
Dani mengajar bahasa Indonesia di SIDE (School of Isolated and Distance Education)

Manajer Situs Web dan Pengurus Keanggotaan: Penny Coutas
Penny telah mengajar bahasa Indonesia di ACT dan WA; pada saat ini dia sedang belajar “Doctorate in Education” di universitas Murdoch.

Komite umum:         

Gay Pathmanathan
Gay mengajar Bahasa Indonesia di Endeavour Primary School, Port Kennedy.

Sherrie Hodge
Sherrie mengajar Bahasa Indonesia di Marangaroo Primary School.

Nicola O’Loughlin
Nicola mengajar Bahasa Indonesia di Melville Senior High School.

Noni Wardani
Noni mengajar Bahasa Indonesia di Perth College.

Margaret Heather
Margaret mengajar Bahasa Indonesia di Wilson Primary School.

The WILTA Committee is going to work hard in 2010 to bring you opportunities to study, read interesting news and develop networks and friendships among your Indonesian teaching colleagues, not only in Western Australia but also throughout the country.  We have decided to introduce more weekday workshops which will hopefully prove just as, or more attractive to teachers than the traditional Saturday workshops.  Our first workshop will be on Friday 19 February starting at 12.30pm, and will be held at SIDE (School of Isolated and Distance Education) in Oxford Street, Leederville.

We would also like to increase our member numbers this year!  Do you need to renew your WILTA membership?  Is there an Indonesian teaching colleague at your school, or at a nearby school, who isn’t a WILTA member yet?  All the information you (and your colleague) will need can be found at the WILTA website:  www.wilta.org/about/membership.html.   Our new online membership registration facility should make things a whole lot easier for busy teachers.

Looking forward to a good year!  See you on 19 February.

Salam hormat

Sue Cooper