Surat dari Ibu Presiden

Written by Sue Cooper
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 17:40
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
Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 February 2010 18:27

Surat dari Ibu President T4 2009

Written by Sue Cooper

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:34

Rekan-rekan yang terhormat,
Selamat berjumpa kembali dalam Warta WILTA edisi ini. Sementara Anda sekalian membaca surat ini, siswa kelas 12 yang mengambil bahasa Indonesia sedang mempersiapkan diri untuk ujian lisan pada hari Sabtu 17 Oktober. Saya masih ingat pengalaman ujian lisan saya sendiri, saya berdebar-debar sekali ... pasti mereka juga seperti itu. Kami di WILTA bersama-sama dengan semua guru yang mengajar kelas 12 memberikan dukungan yang besar kepada mereka, semoga mereka semua berhasil dengan baik ......

Have you seen the new face of WILTA yet? Penny Coutas has been working feverishly behind the scenes to bring you a wonderful new website, which will be officially unveiled at the WILTA AGM on 31 October. Don’t tell her I told you but ... you can take a sneak preview at www.wilta.org. There’s still work to be done, but already there’s a lot of interesting and useful information to be found there. I particularly like the news feeds from Indonesia! The highlight for WILTA this term was a Gala Dinner in honour of a group of Young Ambassadors (“Duta Belia”) from Indonesia who had been selected for a special visit to Perth to share their talents and perspectives with local schools. The dinner was organised by the Balai Bahasa Indonesia Perth in collaboration with the Consulate and WILTA, and a number of WILTA members attended. See the full report on pages 9 & 10 of Warta WILTA.

The MLTAWA Professional Development Day at SIDE on 15 August was very well attended and included workshops on games run by our very own Danielle Horne and Alison Beeston, and a session on creating viewing tasks presented by Moya McLauchlan. Tiana Purba- Barnard delighted the multilingual lunchtime crowd with some Italian opera singing as well. It is clear that when it comes to talent and creative teaching, WILTA members are up there with the best! The successful WILTA tour to Sumatra in April has resulted in a recent visit to Perth by the Mayor of Bukit Tinggi, accompanied by a group of government and education officials. They had a busy round of engagements in their 4-day visit including a visit to Margaret River, SIDE, local government and state government. Hopefully the visit will lead to an official link between Bukit Tinggi and one of our local governments in Perth.

Professional learning opportunities for WILTA members coming up this term are our annual Workshops and AGM, on Saturday 31 October at SIDE, and two Course Development days on 26 and 27 November at AISWA for those teaching Course of Study Stages 2 and 3. For further information and registration details, see the pages later in this issue.

Finally, it is my pleasure to announce that WILTA has nominated current Treasurer Kellie Brophy as recipient of this year’s Professional Teaching Council of WA (PTCWA) Outstanding Professional Service Award. Nominees from all teaching associations will receive their awards at a ceremony at ECU on 29 October 2009. To read about Kellie’s contribution to WILTA, see Warta WILTA page 5.

Demikian surat ini, selamat mengajar dan semoga sukses pada caturwulan terakhir ini.

Salam,

Sue

Surat dari Ibu Presiden

Written by Sue Cooper
Monday, 01 June 2009 12:30
Rekan-rekan yang terhormat, Berita dunia bahasa Indonesia selalu manis pait. Di satu pihak peserta tur yang baru kembali dari pulau Sumatra membawa kenangan yang mengesankan, serta teman-teman baru di Sumatra yang sangat tertarik untuk menjalin hubungan dengan Australia Barat. Ada juga kesempatan untuk mengajukan permohonan dana dari pemerintah Australia untuk proyek-proyek bahasa dan studi Asia, dan banyak sekolah di Indonesia yang sedang mencari kesempatan bekerjasama sekolah-sekolah di Australia. Selain itu juga, pada tanggal 16 Mei lokakarya WILTA memukau sekitar 50 anggota yang hadir untuk belajar, ngobrol dan makan bersama, sambil menghadiri beberapa sesi yang sangat berguna dan menarik. Sesi tersebut itu antara lain pembicara utama Wieke Gur yang menjelaskan perbedaan antara bahasa formal, bahasa informal dan bahasa gaul. Selain itu, Danielle Horne mengajarkan cara bermain permainan bahasa; Daniel Bradbury membawakan dua perjalanan: satu di Indonesia melalui film dokumenternya, dan satu dunia linguistik; kemudian Laura Lochore bersama Linden Davis, Karen Bailey dan Grant Porteus yang berbagi kiat dalam menggunakan materi elektronik WestOne di kelas10 dan 11. So, lots of good news and great experiences so far this year. On the downside there is the uncertainty surrounding the new draft curriculum policy of the Department of Education and Training which is ringing alarm bells for all Languages Associations in the state as we see the potentially risky consequences for Languages programs. WILTA will do all it can to provide constructive feedback to the Department and represent all its members’ interests. So let’s concentrate on what’s positive! On Thursday 25 June Moya McLauchlan ran an excellent workshop on creating viewing tasks from video. This added a whole new dimension to the classroom teaching skills of participants as well as being vital for our students as they practice the new course examination format. The workshop took place at AISWA from 1.00pm to 3.50pm. In July both the AFMLTA and ASILE conferences will take place in Sydney and will bring together Indonesian and other language teachers for a wonderful learning and networking experience. It’s getting late but you can still enrol by visiting http://mltansw.asn.au/afmlta2009.htm (AFMLTA) and http://mltansw.asn.au/asilereg.htm (ASILE) On Saturday 15 August, the MLTAWA will be holding a cross-language workshop at SIDE, where WILTA’s contributions will be a games session similar to the highly successful one for the WILTA Weekend Workshop on 16 May, and one on creating viewing materials. Other unilinguals will be offering workshops suitable for adapting to different languages. To attend you must be an MLTAWA member and I encourage you to join (see their website www.mltawa.org for both membership and workshop information). Watch this space for a WILTA / Balai Bahasa to be held at the Indonesian Consulate on Friday 28 August – details will be posted on www.wilta.org and emailed to members. And watch out later in the year (after the WILTA AGM) for a two-day sharing session on 26 and 27 November, where teachers of Year 10 to 12 courses of study can reflect on the year, share materials and resources, and start planning for the implementation of Units 3A and 3B in 2010. All in all, more good news than bad! Salam hormat, Sue Cooper President
Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 September 2009 14:38