The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages national conference is at the Swan and Dolphin in Orlando. The program looks interesting and it is always invigorating to meet with fellow educators for discussion and networking. I’ll be presenting two hands-on technology-focused workshops: Integrating Technology into Instructional Practice (6 hours) and Enter the Conversation: [...]
The Michigan World Language Association conference is starting tomorrow. The Holiday Inn South in Lansing is the location – it is centrally located, free parking, and easy to reach for many educators from the east and west sides of the state. Hope to see you there!
I just returned from co-facilitating a 10 day intense professional development institute called Mentoring and Leadership for K-12 Chinese teachers at the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University. Cherice Montgomery, my co-facilitator, did a tremendous job with curriculum development. The participants were phenomonal – what a great group of teachers of [...]
During a campaign stop in Colorado, Obama indicated that in order to compete in our global economy everyone should be bilingual or even trilingual. Read more at Obama Urges Education Reform.
What I find interesting about this comment is here we have a presidential candidate who himself has second language experience (Indonesian) and third language experience [...]
Delaware is the latest state to consider adding a world language proficiency requirement for high school graduation. Delaware Online highlights the positive move and support of the World Language Task Force, State Board of Education, etc. Kudos to Delaware!
