Don t forget to bring it to the mid-year Parent/Teacher/Student conference. Wishing you all the best with your language study this year!!

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2 Dear Student, Please keep your VSL Language Passport in a plastic pocket at the back of your folder or work book, along with samples of your best work completed during the year. Don t forget to bring it to the mid-year Parent/Teacher/Student conference. Wishing you all the best with your language study this year!! VSL Area Manager Victorian School of Languages 2014 LANGUAGE PASSPORT

3 VSL Language Passport Dear Parents, Welcome to your child's Assessment Portfolio. This VSL Language Passport and the VSL Student Reports issued in June and November are a record of your child's language learning throughout the year. They are an important part of the school's commitment to inform you of your child's learning progress. The two VSL Student Reports for this year should be read in conjunction with the work samples. A great deal of time and effort has gone into putting this portfolio together. Please take time to sit down with your child and look carefully at all of the tasks in the book. They will be thrilled to hear your positive comments on their work as they describe the task and how they felt about doing it. Please praise your child for their efforts but don't forget that learning is a journey and we all take different amounts of time and effort to reach our destination. Children progress at different rates and therefore should not be judged against each other, but by their own progress over time and against the achievement standards for AusVELS. We have included a range of work samples to provide an overview of both the best and favourite pieces of work completed by your child and aligned to the AusVELS curriculum. These represent only a small sample of the tasks completed by your child during the year. These snapshots in time will give you a clearer picture of how well your child is performing in class and help you to track his or her progress. Combined with the Student Report and the Parent/Teacher/Student Conference in June, we feel you will be given an excellent picture of your child's journey. Sincerely, (Class Teacher) 1

4 About the VSL The Victorian School of Languages (VSL) is a government school committed to the provision of language programs for students in Year 1 to Year 12 (VCE), who do not have access to the study of a particular language in the schools they attend. The school began in 1935 by teaching two languages. The school has two main sections: centre (face-to-face) classes and distance education classes. The school teaches 50 languages in 42 centres across Victoria. Its 15,000 students come from both government and non-government schools. Classes are held outside of school hours usually on Saturdays throughout the Melbourne metropolitan area, country and regional Victoria. The VSL centres are organised in 11 areas, each under the administration of a Leading Teacher (Area Manager). The school teaches 11 languages via distance education (Arabic, Chinese, Classical Greek, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Spanish). The levels range from Year 6 to Year 12 (VCE). The teaching is carried out through a mix of workbooks, on-line provision, telephone lessons, video-conferencing, and regular seminars. In addition, the school - has a course writing section - has a technology section - provides a range of professional development activities on current curriculum initiatives and technology - is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and provides a number of Certificate I, ll and III in Language courses as well as a VET in Schools program. The VSL School Council, which comprises elected and nominated members, provides expert and broadly based guidance and leadership to the school. Overall staffing arrangements, curriculum and administrative services are organised from the head office in Thornbury where the Principal and three Assistant Principals are based. 2

5 MY LEARNING JOURNEY Paste your photo here PHOTO Include information about self, interests, family and future aspirations. Name Year level Language Teacher VSL Centre 3

6 Student Success Plan & Portfolio examples Instructions for students to put together your portfolio: Include 6 pieces of your best pieces of work Include 2 pieces of your favourite pieces of work Examples of pieces of work: Assignments Projects Worksheets Models Drawings Tests Essays NOTE: some pieces of work are difficult to include in your portfolio (drama performances, larges models etc.) However, you can still answer the questions below about them: Describe each piece of work - What did you have to do to complete it? What was your feedback and result? Why was it your best piece of work? What did you do really well on each piece? What could you have done better to improve? Consider a piece of work which you were not happy with, or didn t do so well on.. What advice would you give yourself for next time you try some work or a task like this? 4

7 Semester One Language Personal Learning Goals To be completed by the student This semester I would like to learn about I learn best when I am really good at I would like to be better at What I think I could do to help me improve and extend my skills and understanding (see ideas below) What I think my teacher could do to help me improve/extend my skills What I think my parent/s could do to help me improve/extend my skills Some ideas to help you decide on areas for improvement/extension ICT use Drama More confidence Concentration Organisation Spelling Developing writing/oral ideas Grammar Presentations Behaviour Read more challenging books 5 Work habits Student signature... Teacher signature... Parent signature... Hand/script writing Being a positive role model

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9 Student Work Samples (6-8 pieces for Semester One) 7

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11 Semester One Learning and Improvement Reflection Student Reflection Please make a comment on your progress and achievements this semester. My Language goal for this semester was: End of Semester reflection: Some activities I completed during Semester One: How the knowledge and skills learnt contributed to me achieving my language goal: Improvements I have made in regard to my language learning: What I need to improve: Parent Reflection Parents are an important part of the home-school partnership. You are invited to make a comment on your child s progress to date. (What I observed about the progress made, differences observed and general comments about my child s progress). Teacher Comment 9

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13 Semester Two Language Personal Learning Goals To be completed by the student This semester I would like to learn about I learn best when I am really good at I would like to be better at What I think I could do to help me improve and extend my skills and understanding (see ideas below) What I think my teacher could do to help me improve/extend my skills What I think my parent/s could do to help me improve/extend my skills Some ideas to help you decide on areas for improvement/extension ICT use Drama More confidence Concentration Organisation Spelling Developing writing/oral ideas Grammar Presentations Behaviour Read more challenging books 11 Work habits Student signature... Teacher signature... Parent signature... Hand/script writing Being a positive role model

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15 Student Work Samples (6-8 pieces for Semester Two) 13

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17 Semester Two Learning and Improvement Reflection Student Reflection Please make a comment on your progress and achievements this semester. My Language goal for this semester was: End of Semester reflection: Some activities I completed during Semester Two: How the knowledge and skills learnt contributed to me achieving my language goal: Improvements I have made in regard to my language learning: What I need to improve: Parent Reflection Parents are an important part of the home-school partnership. You are invited to make a comment on your child s progress to date. (What I observed about the progress made, differences observed and general comments about my child s progress). Teacher Comment 15

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