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Spanish instructors needed at Virginia Tech for spring 2010 - See ad under recent activities on this page.

Exciting new action research by a Wisconsin colleague:

all about using technology in the WL classroom by teachers like us!

Judy Wyatt-Schlei, NBCT

German Department

Hudson High School

www.hudson.k12.wi.us

Due to the awful URL for this site, here is an easier one (VA WorldLanguagesTeacherEducators):

http://doiop.com/VAWLTed

Interesting article that touches upon our work:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/24/teachered

The Foreign Language

Teacher Education and Development WIKI

Virginia has great strength in world language education.  Still, language educators face similar issues locally, nationally and internationally.  Those of us who are preparing future teachers and providing continuing education to professionals in the field benefit from sharing our knowledge and resources and communicating about the current and future state of our field.  We spread the wealth by sharing this information with current and future teachers.  This wiki, then, is designed as a Virginia forum to:

• facilitate communication among VA FL teacher trainers

• stay informed about Virginia world language news and changes

• make visible a statewide, up-to-date snapshot of programs and offerings

• list resources available to Virginia teachers and teacher educators

• share knowledge, resources, information

• collaborate horizontally (inter-institutionally) and vertically (K-Ph.D.), locally, regionally, statewide

• have ready access to VA DOE, NCATE, INTASC standards and changes as they impact us

• stay abreast of technological and pedagogical movements and affordances

• learn how to use a wiki for teaching and administering

• other as we deem important.

In these dire economic times, it is critical that we facilitate collaborations and resource sharing.  Let us model here best practices in teacher preparation and professional development for the 21st Century.

A wiki is only as good as the input and participation of its members.  The official members of this wiki who may post and edit are the post-secondary teacher trainers; however, the wiki is open for viewing to all pre-service and in-service teachers.

If a Ning or other communication resources (setting up social bookmarking or twittering, for example) is needed, let us create them.

Update on the TellMeMore training:

Kathryn will be working with Richmond Public Schools in early June.

We are looking into offering sessions in the Tidewater and Northern Virginia  areas later in May or June.

NCLRC Conference on Language Teacher Education, May, 2009, information