Tīhei uriuri, tīhei nakonako
Connecting Languages, Culture and Identity
Growing, strengthening, and advocating for language learning and use, and sustaining heritage languages in schools.
Build your skills and strengthen your language teaching practice with one of our hands-on workshops or programmes.
We offer programmes, workshops, in-person classroom support, online support and resources to help strengthen language learning in New Zealand schools, and many of our services are fully-funded.
We also advocate for language learning and language maintenance in New Zealand schools.
Just need access to some teaching resources or want to know the latest research? Join our vibrant community.
Over 20 facilitators and kaiako
What we do
For school leaders
- Provide funded PLD to sustain teacher pedagogy.
- Explain the value of learning a language to students in the wider context of all their learning.
- Develop a robust and sustainable language programme.
- Highlight career opportunities for students of languages.
- Strengthen an existing language programme.
- Help schools build international links.
- Support the development of teacher efficacy.
- Plan and run cultural events to create a multicultural environment.
- Improve outcomes for students taking languages.
For principals
- Develop a robust and sustainable language programme.
- Improve outcomes for students taking languages.
- Strengthen an existing language programme.
- Explain the value of learning a language to students in the wider context of all their learning.
- Develop your skills as a middle leader.
- Highlight career opportunities for students of languages.
- Plan and run cultural events to create a multicultural environment.
For language teachers
- Understand the importance of ongoing development for languages teachers.
- Improve outcomes for your students.
- Develop your skills in a wide range of research backed pedagogy.
- Connect with other teachers around the country.
- Provide access to grants to develop language teaching in your school.
- Highlight career opportunities for students of languages.
- Make languages visible.
- Help you to become influential within your school community and an advocate for language learning.
We provide professional development in language teaching pedagogy across all languages.
Explore our upcoming courses & workshops
GROW: Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) Years 1-10
This course is designed to provide participants with the support to successfully design and implement different types of communicative tasks. This will enable participants to make their languages lessons more interactive and engaging.
GROW: Steering Beginner Learners Towards Meaningful Spoken Communication
This programme is designed to support educators to inquire into improving student outcomes, with a particular focus on increasing students' spoken use of the language; deepen your understanding of key documents which underpin the Learning Languages area of the NZC; and reflect on collected evidence of how you cater for these in your practice.
Join the Languages Learning Circle
The Languages Learning Circle is an online destination where you will find: our Calendar of Events, our searchable and rich resource hub (Pātaka Rauemi), and much more!
We've created this online space to allow all educators - teachers, school leaders and academics - to come together and share.
It's free to join for all NZ registered teachers. Register now using the link below!
Making an impact
Hear from educators whose practice have been positively impacted by our innovative approach to learning and professional development.