As school communities are diverse and learners and their language repertoires are individual, it is important as educators and teachers that we work together to build our understanding, share our experiences, and develop a language aware operating culture and language aware practices that support the equal participation and involvement of all learners. As in all education, in language aware teaching the teacher’s beliefs and conceptualisations and choices and actions have an essential impact on what can be learned.

The Language Aware Pathway is built to run throughout the class teacher education curriculum, ensuring you have plenty of time to:

• Develop your understanding of language awareness as an ethical, social and pedagogical phenomenon;
• Recognise learners as linguistic agents with a variety of linguistic resources; and
• Develop your own language aware pedagogy.

On the Language Aware Pathway, you will develop your pedagogical expertise for encountering diversity and promoting the agency of all learners in future school communities.