VATI Conference 2026 - Presentations available to download
Matthew Bokan - Bringing Italian into Everyday Life: Engaging Resources for VCE students
Laura Montesano - Retrieve to succeed! Years 7-9 students
Antonella Taylor & Antoinette Rehak - This works for me! Ideas for the secondary classroom to engage students (Years 7-10)
Nancy Cozzo, Jacqueline Robertson, Isabella Mammoliti & Angela Francavilla - This works for me! Ideas for the primary classroom to engage students (Years F-6)
Sara Cardenia Sanders - Chief Assessor’s Report- The Oral Italian exam (VCE)
Max Tosi & Federica Mancusi - Italiano in scena – Roleplay activities in the Italian classroom
Francesca Lo Presti, Lisa Grech & Bianca Turrisi - Evolving Practice, Accelerating Progress: Rethinking Italian from Year 7-10
Tina Di Camillo - Chief Assessor’s Report- The Written Italian Exam (VCE)
Professor Tanya Serry (La Trobe University): Science of Language and Reading - How learning a foreign language can assist with the national reading crisis
VCAA Kathleen Duquemin & Catherine Bryant - F-10 Victorian Curriculum, V2.0, (Italian Primary). Introducing new support resources to plan and implement the curriculum in your classroom
VCAA Francis Holl & Robbie Muljana - F-10 Victorian Curriculum, V2.0, (Italian Secondary). Introducing new support resources to plan and implement the curriculum in your classroom
Terri Di Battista & Maria Dikaiou - The Victoria Curriculum, V 2.0, Italian - Planning and developing a unit of work Levels F-6 (Primary) and levels 7-10 (Secondary) - Unit planning template
David Menzies & Ginevra De Benedetti - Viva L‘Italia! Exploring Art, Design and the Italian Curriculum
Nick Boffa - The use of Intentional Teaching Gestures to increase student language production in a range of Italian programs
Laura Lori - Language, Gender and Contemporary Italian
Mario Gava - Approaching and creating assessments for Years 7-10 Italian
Nathalie Marchand - Active breaks: the key to students’ cognitive wellbeing
Riccardo Amorati, Elena Pirovano & Ariana Diaz - Resources and strategies for Gender-Expansive Italian Language Education - Link to textbook
Mariella De Paolis - Teaching Italian to young learners (Preschool, Foundation to Year 2)
Michela Pellizon - Marking together : Alligning Judgement in VCE Italian Writing
Mark Gabriele - Using ICT (ChatGPT, AI & technology tools in the language classroom)
