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2024 VATE State Conference

Registrations are now open for the 2024 VATE State Conference at Deakin University on Thursday 21 November and Friday 22 November.

2024 VATE State Conference registrations are available for both in-person and hybrid delegates. Please note: The Conference registration pages may load slowly due to the large number of workshops on offer.

For more information about the conference including all of the speakers and presenters click here.

VATE 2024 VCE Online Student Revision Lectures

VATE’s ever-popular online student lectures are now available to order for VCE English, EAL, English Language and Literature exams. These recordings offer students the opportunity to learn from experienced VCE teachers and examiners who provide insights into key aspects of the exams for each of the VCE English Studies.

For more information please view the flyer for the Online Student Revision Lectures.

You can order lectures for your school here.

2024 Membership now available

VATE membership renewal for 2024 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 2023. You can now renew your VATE Membership for 2024 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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Upcoming events

10 - 24
Oct

Deakin x VATE Hot Topics Seminar: Teaching Digital Writing Seminar Series

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14
Nov

VATE Prologue: An Online Webinar for Pre-Service Teachers

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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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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 01, 2024

The sustainability of the English teaching profession/al in uncertain times

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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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Latest from the VATE bookshop

Bookshop

Chronicle of a Death Foretold – VATE Inside Stories 2024

Inside Stories

VATE Inside Frameworks

VATE Publications

As You Like It - VATE Literature Perspectives 2024

Literature Perspectives

Admissions – VATE Literature Perspectives 2024

Literature Perspectives

Inside Language VCE Unit 3 (2024–2028)

Inside Language

Inside Language VCE Unit 4 (2024–2028)

Inside Language

Inside Language VCE Unit 2 (2024–2028)

Inside Language

Inside Language VCE Unit 1 (2024–2028)

Inside Language

The Hazards - VATE Literature Perspectives 2024

Literature Perspectives

The Plains – VATE Literature Perspectives 2024

Literature Perspectives

Our partners and projects

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