Featured Foreign Languages Advocacy PowerPoints created by UW Students:
Rebecca Brazzale: Foreign Languages: Good for the Brain
Nikki Tottingham: Foreign Language Advocacy
Toni Theisen's (ACTFL 2008 Teacher of the Year) resources for teaching
with technology: http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/
Spotlight on the Wyoming 6th - 8th Grade Spanish Curriculum
Wyoming teachers developed sixth-grade materials with funding from the Wyoming Legislature as part of a five-year pilot program to offer Spanish-language instruction to over 9,000 children in grades K-6 throughout the state. Thanks to a federally funded FLAP project, units for grades 7-8 also have been developed by teams of Wyoming teachers. When completed, all materials for grades 6-8 will be posted on the following Curriki site:
The Fulbright Teacher Exchange program http://www.fulbrightteacherexchange.org/index.cfmprovides opportunities for K-12 teachers to participate in direct one-to-one exchanges with colleagues from other countries for a semester or academic year. Fulbrighters enrich their schools and communities with a new awareness of other cultures and of events occurring in different parts of the world, providing students and citizens with new perspectives about the world in which they live.
Cincinnati Enquirer Article: U.S. Suffers from Language Weakness
Article by Leah Mason
October 2009
The following organizations provide a wealth of information and support for foreign language teaching/learning and advocacy:
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
JNCL-NCLIS (Joint National Committee for Languages - National Council
for Languages and International Studies) http://www.languagepolicy.org/
Modern Language Association
National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages
National Council of State Supervisors of Foreign Languages
National Foreign Language Resource Centers
List-servs:
FL Teach
InterCom CASLS (Center for Applied Second Language Studies)
