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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

 

Virginians!!  Please pass this message around to all you know.............................

 

The 57th Annual Northeast Conference and NYSAFLT Spring Colloquium

"Simply Irresistible:  People, Programs, and Practices that Inspire"

March 25 - 27, 2010 at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway

http://www2.dickinson.edu/prorg/nectfl/reg10withonline.html

Dear Colleagues,

I encourage each and every one of you to attend The 2010 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign in NYC! Please attend with your colleagues and learn a few things from the over 200 sessions and workshops that are available! Visit the many exhibitors who will be in attendance in the massive exhibit hall and take home some freebies. Teachers who have attended in the past rave about the conference and all that it has to offer! Will you be one of them?! If your school doesn’t cover the expense, register anyway because we need to support our language organizations that support what we do on a daily basis! For many of us it is a short train or bus ride to NYC, so please make the trip and support NECTFL! I hope to see you all at the Marriot Marquis Hotel on Broadway from March 25-27. 2010!

http://www2.dickinson.edu/prorg/nectfl/reg10withonline.html

 

Happy 2010!

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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