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The FLAME website offers resources and information for Maine's K-12
teachers of French, German, Latin, Spanish, ESL and other languages.
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The deadline for making a proposal for presenting a workshop at the spring conference has been extended. Please consider presenting your wonderful ideas or activities!
Meet Your FLAME Board!
Seated, from left to right: Janice Clain, Christopher Gram (FLAME President), Priscille Michaud, and Betsy McPhedran Standing, from left to right: Nancy Sparacio, Gisela Hoerchel-Alden, Donald Reutershan, Ann Sullivan, Catherine Gram (FLAME Secretary), Kim MacDonald (FLAME Treasurer), and Betsy Hudson Several other members of the Advisory Board are not pictured: Dennis Glidden, Mary Oches and Ruth Parent.
Click here for
information regarding the annual scholarship that the Maine Chapter of AATF
gives to a senior or junior French student. You will find the topic and the
reading. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact our Vice
President, Prof.Chelsea Ray at UMA. Please take the time to view this as you
might just have a winner sitting right in front of you in class!
Show our ME Pride at NECTFL in 2010 “Simply Irresistible: People, Programs and Practices that Inspire” Do not miss this opportunity to attend this major regional conference Co-sponsored by NYSAFLT At the Marriott Marquis in New York City March 25-27, 2010!!!
“Simply Irresistible:
Do not miss this opportunity to attend this
major regional conference
http://www2.dickinson.edu/prorg/nectf The Northeast Conference P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle PA 17013-2896 Tel. 717-245-1977 Fax 717-245-1976 E-mail: nectfl@dickinson.edu
CALICO - The Computer Assisted Language Instruction ConsortiumCALICO 2010 Registration Available Registration is open for CALICO 2010, Enhancing
Language Learning: Research, Innovation, and Evaluation in CALL, taking
place at Amherst College, Massachusetts, June 8-12.
Are you looking for a way to advocate for your language program? Check out the FLAME Advocacy Video!
Called The Many Faces of Maine, it was professionally produced by Ronnie Hersh and Richard Searls of Kinetiscope. Our FLAME Video Committee included Chris Gram, Catherine Hobby and Peter Nutting. Together they created a script and chose who would be interviewed. They also collaborated to edit the film. The video offers a clear rationale for the inclusion of language study in our schools. We are pleased to offer you this lively and informative video which is suitable for a variety of audiences:
If you would like a copy of the videocassette ($10 for FLAME members, $20 for non-members), please email Ann Sullivan at mmesorciere@msn.com.
Accès Cinéma Africain Penobscot School in Montréal (since 1997) This French immersion for adults and advanced-level students in the context of Montréal’s annual Festival de Cinéma PanAfrica International will be held April 22-25, 2010. The new Program Director is Dr. Abe Waldstein, Francophone Africa specialist. Co-Founder Julia Schulz will assist. For more information, please contact: Patti Luchetti, Executive Director, Penobscot School; 28 Gay St, Rockland, ME 04841; 207-594-1084; patti@languagelearning.org Information and registration forms available on line: www.cinema-africain.org C.E.U.’s are available.
Limited financial aid is available for Maine foreign language teachers in the form of $100 tuition grants. Funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis, thanks to the generous support of the David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation. The Foundation's wish is to address the need for professional development funds created by school budget cuts. Please request a scholarship application form with registration.
It’s time to start preparing for the 2010 Grand Concours, the
National French Contest of the American Association of Teachers of French
(AATF).
The dates for the 2010 National French Contest are February 15-26 for
FLES and March 1-28 for the Middle School/High School level. As in the
past, the exam will be administered in your own school. Please arrange
for testing in your school through a school administrator, guidance
counselor or another (non-French) teacher. All students are encouraged to
participate. Further information about the National French Contest is
available on the AATF web site at
http://www,frenchteachers.org/concours/.
The contest fees for AATF members are less than for non-members.
Current members of AATF pay $3.00 per student and non-members pay $4.00.
The CD for each level is $6.00. AATF is offering two types of incentives
to recruit new members.
In order to be eligible for the fee reductions, a teacher must be an
AATF member by January 1, 2010.
To limit unnecessary photocopy expenses, I have not included the
registration forms with this mailing. If you plan to offer the National
French Contest this year, please contact me via e-mail (preferred),
telephone, or snail mail and I will mail you all of the necessary
documents. Please notify me by December 4th
of your interest in participating in order to allow sufficient time for
you to receive and complete all necessary paperwork.
Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me. If
I can’t answer your questions immediately, I will contact the National
Contest Administrator to find the answers for you. I hope your year is
going smoothly and that I will hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Ruth
Haszko
Contest
Administrator for Maine
e-mail:
haszko@pair.com
telephone:
207-779-1709
Here are some course offerings at the graduate level in French at UMaine. For more information, click here.
In addition to the graduate level courses, you might be interested in the following:
FRE 307 French for Business,
Spring 2010, TTh 3:30-4:45, 205 Little Hall
For students of business, international affairs or related careers. Focuses on the development of vocabulary and the improvement of oral proficiency in business and social settings applied to various francophone settings. Applies technology to education through the regular use of the internet as a source of reading and information, as well as other media. (3 cr.) Satisfies the Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives General Education Requirement. Prerequisite: FRE 202 Intermediate French II (or permission)
For more information contact Prof. Jane Smith:
J. S. Smith, Ph.D.
If you would like to hear about French-related activities on the UMA campus, please contact Chelsea Ray , Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature (chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu), to have your name added to the general mailing list. This year, for example, we are offering a number of different programs: the “Fun in French for Kids” program for children ages 3-10 (high school student volunteers are welcome to participate); a French Conversation Table (on the first Thursday of every month from 2:30-3:45 p.m.); a French Conversation Course (Tuesdays from 3:00-4:00 p.m.), and a French Film Festival (Spring 2010). Please pass on the word about classes in French at
UMA. In particular, the one credit "French for Everyone" might apply to both
French teachers and high school students. Let me know if anyone wants
additional information.
Here is a reminder to save the date, and REGISTER EARLY for the 2010
FLAME conference. Do it now before budgets freeze!!
Gisela Hoecherl-Alden has put together this wonderful list of resources for the promotion of the study of languages. Check it out!!!.
International Exchange Opportunities for Teachers and
Principals
The 2010 summer edition of The Spanish Language and
Literature Programs for High School Students, in CEELE-accredited Schools in
Spain, is available now at:
Establishing Partnerships with Schools in France
Are you, a teaching colleague, or your school interested in establishing a partnership with a school in France? If so, please read the information below. On February 24, 2009 Commissioner Gendron and James Breece, Vice Chancellor of the University of Maine System, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Académie de Nantes, France. The purpose of the MOU is to foster educational collaboration between Maine and the Académie de Nantes, which is responsible for directing K-12 and postsecondary education in the Pays de la Loire region of France. Through the MOU all partners agree to develop a range of joint educational and research activities for students, teachers, professors and school administrators. Examples of possible cooperative projects include correspondence, visiting programs, and study/research activities and exchanges that are either face-to-face or mediated through technology. (Due to current economic conditions, overseas travel should not be viewed as a required component to a project. The inclusion of travel will depend on the extent to which partner schools are able to find ways to finance the desired travel.) Examples of project themes range from a comparison of French and American schools to a discussion of an environmental issue facing your region or the state; from sharing cultural information (e.g. tourism, history, visual and performing arts) to comparing geography and related industries in Maine and the Pays de la Loire; from sharing information about students’ families and/or friends to creating stories or plays together in French and English. If you or your school is interested in developing a partnership project with a school in France, please click here to complete the application form. If you have additional questions, contact Don Reutershan at don.reutershan@maine.gov. Thank you in advance for your interest in this program.
Our President Mary Oches attended the 2008 ACTFL Conference where she represented FLAME. The conference took place in Orlando, Florida in November. Mary is pictured here with the AATSP representative to the FLAME Advisory Board, Betsy Hudson.
On October 10, 2007, the State Board of Education unanimously approved Maine Department of Education Regulation 132 - Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction. The routine technical rule has been approved by the Attorney General and filed with the Secretary of State, with an effective date of October 22, 2007. The filing of this rule completes the final step in the comprehensive review of the Maine Learning Results. The new standards can be found on this page: http://www.maine.gov/education/lres/pei/index.html
Le lancement du livre Voyages A Maine Franco-American Reader de Nelson Madore et Barry Rodrigue a eu lieu samedi. C’est vraiment un très beau livre !
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The Peace Corps' Coverdell World Wise Schools has hundreds of Peace Corps volunteers in 73 countries who are signed up for the Correspondence Match program, seeking to be connected with a US teacher for a two-year letter writing exchange (once a month). If you might be interested in participating, please go to our website and click Educators to sign up: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/correspond/
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For information about financial support for candidates for National Board Certification, click here.
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Interested in hosting an international student? Check out these websites: Council on Standards for International Educational Travel
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Have you ever thought about volunteering for one of the FLAME committees, and then hesitated out of concern that the job might not be what you expected? We committee members have all been there! So we decided to put together a "job description" for each committee so that potential volunteers might find their "perfect position." Click here to read about what members of FLAME committees do.
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Click here
for a summary of federal legislative actions related to foreign/world
languages. This report comes from the Joint National Committee for
Languages & National Council for Languages and International Studies (JNCL-NCLIS).
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ACTFL has launched a new sustained public awareness campaign for language education. DiscoverLanguages.org is up and running! Check it out.
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