MLTA ACT Website

MLTA ACT

  Modern Language Teachers' Association of the ACT

PO Box 989

Canberra ACT 2601

Role and activities

The role of the the MLTA is to promote language learning in the ACT by providing a voice for language teachers and to facilitate professional dialogue among ACT colleagues and with colleagues in other jurisdictions.

The MLTA supports members through:

For more information, see the member invitation.

Association news

Constitution change

At the MLTA ACT General Meeting on Thursday 20 May 2010, members unanimously endorsed a change to the constitution to state that "The Annual General Meeting (AGM) shall be held each year in March and the members elected to the Council shall be deemed to take office immediately."

Prior to this, the AGM has been held in November and the new council members took office at the start of the following school year. This was problematical in that members who were not re-elected continuted to represent the association until the start of the next year.

The timing of the AGM in November also presented difficulties for members whose ability to renew their memberships and to serve on council is dependent on their appointments for the following year, which in some cases is not known by November of the preceding year.

These issues were resolved by the resolution of the meeting on 20 May.

Office bearers 2010

President: Meri Dragicevic president@mltaact.asn.au
Vice-President: Natalie Stewart vp@mltaact.asn.au
Membership Secretary: Tim Ward-Hardy secretary@mltaact.asn.au
Minutes Secretary: Kratai Visityuthasart minsec@mltaact.asn.au
Treasurer: Jennifer Macdonald treasurer@mltaact.asn.au
Contact Editor: Shannon White contacteditor@mltaact.asn.au
Webmaster: Frank Keighley webmaster@mltaact.asn.au

Publications

Contact April 2010
Professional Standards Stream C Registration Form
Professional Standards Information Stream C
Professional Standards Phase 2 Information
Canberra Languages Forum Update April 2010
Plus 硠change Abstract
Language Adventures Poster
Report on launch of Draft National Professional Standards for Teachers (added 29 April 2010)

Events

There will be an MLTA event in Week 4 of each term in 2010. The event in Term 1 was the "Meet and Greet". The meeting in Term 2 (before the dinner at Mecca Bah on 20 May) will consider a proposal to hold future AGMs in March each year. In Term 3, the event in Week 4 will be MLTA ACT Conference.

For details about some of the events, see the publications above.

If you would like to provide input through MLTA on professional standards, please email your contributions to the President, Meri Dragicevic, president@mltaact.asn.au. The closing date has been extended to 20 May.

Date and time Event Venue
July 2010
July 2010 School holidays 3 July to 19 July  
Sun 4 - Wed 7 July 2010 NZALT Conference Queenstown NZ
August 2010
August 2010, date TBA Endeavour Fellowship applications  
Friday 13 August 2010 WEEK 4 EVENT: Cocktail with Tony Liddicoat, 4:30 pm Venue TBA
September 2010
September 2010 FIPLV Scholarship applications  
September 2010 School holidays 24 September to 11 October  
October 2010
November 2010
November 2010 WEEK 4 EVENT: End of year, guest speaker Venue TBA
November 2010, date TBA MLTA ACT Conference Venue TBA
December 2010
7 December 2010 School holidays commence  
For earlier events, please view the events archive.

Membership

Teachers of languages in the ACT region are invited to become members or renew membership for 2010. Please send the membership form by mail to The Treasurer, MLTA of ACT Inc, GPO Box 989, Canberra ACT 2601 or by email to treasurer@mltaact.asn.au.

Membership of MLTA ACT includes the benefits of affiliation to the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, (AFMLTA), including a subscription to the national language teachers' journal, Babel, as well as FIPLV (see above).