VATI Mock Exam 2020 and VCAA Sample Exam
Dear VCE Colleagues,
1. VCAA sample exam
In case you need them, we have made a recording of the listenings of the VCAA sample exam (https://vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/italian/2020/italian-sampexam-w.pdf).
The transcripts are at the end of the exam.
Download the recordings by visiting https://www.vati.vic.edu.au/mock-exam/.
2. VATI Mock Exam 2020
As in previous years VATI is preparing a mock exam which should be available to VCE colleagues by the end of August.
REVISED NOTICE OF VATI ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020
Dear VATI members,
Due to the new COVID-19 restrictions announced by the Premier on 7 July, the VATI AGM scheduled for Wednesday 22 July 2020 at 5:30pm will now become an online meeting using the Zoom platform.
In order to participate you need to request the Zoom link for the scheduled meeting, by emailing the president, Ferdinando Colarossi, at info@vati.vic.edu.au, including your full name, and indicating whether it is a school or individual member request. The link will be emailed to you closer to the date.
Requests for the link must arrive no later than 4.00pm Friday 18 July.
The purpose of the meeting is to:
- confirm the minutes of the previous annual general meeting
- receive from the committee reports upon the transactions of the Association during the last preceding financial year
- elect officers of the Association and the ordinary members of the committee
- Set membership fees for 2021
- To insert the following to the model rules of the Association in Part 1- Preliminary: Purposes
“The purposes of the association are:
- to promote the teaching and learning of the Italian language
- to support teachers in their teaching of Italian
- to support students with their learning of the language
- to maintain links with and make representations to State and Federal agencies and governments in Australia and to the Italian government and regional authorities in support of the teaching of Italian in Victoria
- to liaise with relevant professional associations, cultural institutions and other organisations”
A member may appoint another member as a proxy for the meeting. Download the proxy form here.
School memberships are entitled to one vote regardless of the number of teachers associated with that membership.
Ferdinando Colarossi
VATI President
Tel. (03) 93499012
Email: ferdinando@coasit.com.au
8 July 2020
Download the notice of the VATI Annual General Meeting as a PDF.
2020 Italian Language Model United Nations
We encourage you to take part in this special event for senior students. The students who participated last year found the day stimulating and rewarding. You can see this on display in the videos of the language specific UNAA Victoria model that were filmed last year. You will find the Italian model UN video on this link: https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/modelunlanguages. Please watch and share the video with your students. The videos are designed to give teachers and students an understanding of how the Model UNs work and the benefits that are derived from participating in this unique learning event.
VATI Congress 2020
Dear Colleagues,
As you may have already suspected the VATI Congress cannot be held on Friday 24 April. It will be rescheduled to a date in November. Thank you for your forebearance.
Ferdinando
VATI president
Congress 2020 will be held at the Catholic Leadership Centre, 576 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne.
VATI CONGRESS 2020 - information for Publishers/Organisations
Attention publishers, bookshops, and other businesses!
Exhibitor Registration for Congress 2020 Exhibition is now open.
2020 Membership
VATI supports teachers of Italian in Victoria. Our members are mainly drawn from primary and secondary teachers.
Membership for 2020 is now available. Payment may be made by Credit Card or EFT (Credit Card is preferred).
DET Language Teacher Register
The Language Teacher Register has been developed by the Department of Education and Training (DET) to assist schools to source qualified languages teachers to fill vacant language teaching positions in government schools.