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2024 VATE State Conference

Registrations for the 2024 VATE State Conference have now closed.

The VATE Office will be closed from Wednesday, November 20 - Tuesday, November 26 due to the Conference.

2025 Membership now available

VATE membership renewal for 2025 is now open.

We'd like to thank the strong and vibrant VATE community that continued to support our English teaching colleagues across the state in 2024. You can now renew your VATE Membership for 2025 through the 'My account' area of your account or if you aren't a current VATE member, you can join here!

Over 50 years of supporting English teachers

VATE is an independent, not for profit organisation that aims to foster the highest quality teaching of English throughout Victoria. Since 1960 VATE has supported its members as they have navigated the various changes to the teaching and learning of English over the last sixty years. 

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Registrations for the 2024 VATE State Conference have now closed.
The VATE Office will be closed from Wednesday, November 20 - Tuesday, November 26 due to the Conference.

Upcoming events

21 - 22
Nov

2024 VATE State Conference

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21 - 22
Nov

2024 VATE State Conference - Hybrid

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26
Nov

ACMI and VATE present: Sunset Boulevard

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28
Nov

Inside Stories: New texts for 2025

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28 Nov
28 Feb

Literature Perspectives: New Texts for 2025

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03
Dec

Structuring Your Year - VCE Units 3 and 4

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Become a VATE member

VATE exists to support its members in the continual process of renewal necessary to engage with the dynamic nature of both the profession and subject English.

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Networks

2019 Collaborative Research Grant

11 Apr 2019

VATE has four active online VCE Networks. VATE members are able to join these Networks and contribute to the conversations.

VCE English teachers

To subscribe to this Network email adminofficer@vate.org.au

VCE English Language teachers

To subscribe to this Network email adminofficer@vate.org.au

VCE Literature teachers

To subscribe to this Network email adminofficer@vate.org.au

VCE EAL teachers

To subscribe to this Network email adminofficer@vate.org.au

Volume 60, number 02, 2024

Tales from Beyond Suburbia

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News

24 Apr 2024 - 1:30pm

Middle Ground

The purpose of VATE’s Middle Ground publication is to provide middle years’ teachers (Years 7-10) with access to activities and lesson sequences that can assist with the teaching of English concepts, skills, knowledge, and ideas. Each edition of Middle Ground is mapped to the Victorian and Australian curricula and is supported by extensive support materials including professional reading, media articles, audio visual material, as well as tables, handouts and worksheets.

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Poems: Elizabeth Bishop - VATE Literature Perspectives 2025

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The Age of Innocence - VATE Literature Perspectives 2025

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The Winter Road - VATE Literature Perspectives 2025

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Olive Kitteridge - VATE Literature Perspectives 2025

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Our Sunshine - VATE Literature Perspectives 2025

Literature Perspectives

Twelfth Night - VATE Inside Stories 2025

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New & Selected Poems, Vol 1: Mary Oliver - VATE Inside Stories 2025

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Jane Eyre - VATE Inside Stories 2025

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Ghost Wall - VATE Inside Stories 2025

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