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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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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.
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
Franco-American playwright Grégoire Chabot and his theatrical troupe will perform two fantastic shows in Jewett Auditorium at UMA!
A variety of monologues will be presented (in French and English) YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW FRENCH TO ENJOY THE SHOW! Thursday, November 12th from 3:30-4:45 1 monologue in French 2 monologues in English “Talk back” with the performers Friday, November 13th from 6:30-8:00 3 monologues in English 2 monologues in French JOIN US! SHOWS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC For more information, please contact Chelsea Ray at: chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu or 621-3487 These shows are made possible with the support of “Le Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques”
Chelsea Ray
FALL FLES CONFERENCE (Grades K-8) PLEASE COME! News Flash! There is still time to sign up for the FLES conference to be held at Maranacook Middle School Sat Nov 7 from 9-3.
The focus this year is on how to get students talking! Morning sessions will include: Ideas on how to use music in you classroom, songs, chants and make your own musical instruments with presenter Margo Stiassni from the Penobscot school. Fun games and activities that encourage students to speak the language with Betsy McPhedran and Simple TPR with Brett Trefethen All these activities are geared for K-8. Afternoon will present various new topics with technology to get students talking! Lots of exciting new ideas. Bring your laptop . This is for all age groups! The last hour will be a sharing time. Bring your best idea and a handout if possible. Fabulous lunch and morning bagels are included in conference price! Only $16.00. I fear the brochures may have been delayed in the mail. If you did not get a conference registration form you can download one from the FLAME web site or e-mail betsy_mcphedran@maranacook.org Hope to see you there! Betsy McPhedran
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7th 2009 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. MARANACOOK COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, 2100 Millard Harrison Dr., Readfield, Maine 04352 Fee: $16.00 (includes registration, coffee, best bagels in Maine and fantastic lunch) 9:00 a.m. Registration and welcome by FLES Committee: Betsy McPhedran, Charlie Hicks, MaryBeth Maloney, Brett Trefethen & Mary Ellen Tracy. Enjoy Bagels and Coffee 9:30-11:30 Proposed topics: Story telling and TPR. Games and fun ideas for language practice in your classrooms. Hands on activities 11:30-12:30 Lunch and networking. door prizes, handouts music and fun! 12:30- 2:00 Learn how to integrate technology into your foreign language classroom. 2:00-2:45 Participants will divide into age levels (and possibly language) and share their best worksheets/ideas. Click here for more information and a registration form.
2009 Maine Chinese Language Conference after October 20: $125 seniors (age 65+)
students: $50
French Film Series The French Club at the University of Maine at Farmington cordially invites you to a screening of the following films (English subtitles). All screenings at 7:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. ++Wednesday November 11th: De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté (2005) by Jacques Audiard, Room C23 Tom, a real estate thug, is torn between a criminal life and his desire to become a concert pianist. ++Wednesday November 18th: Paris, (2008) by Cédric Klapisch, Lincoln Auditorium Poetic view of Paris through the eyes of a young dying dancer. ++Wednesday December 2nd: Entre les murs (2008)by Laurent Cantet, Lincoln Auditorium Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood. ++Wednesday December 9th: Maurice Richard(2005) by Charles Binamé, Lincoln Auditorium Canadian Film about Maurice Richard, an outstanding hockey player, and about discrimination against French Canadians in the fifties and sixties in Quebec. For more information: Sylvie Charron, Professor of French, University of
Maine at Farmington, 270 Main Street, Farmington, ME04938, USA
Films from the Muslim World at the University of Maine at Farmington This film series is sponsored by Professor Linda Beck. For more information: Sylvie Charron, Professor of French, University of
Maine at Farmington, 270 Main Street, Farmington, ME04938, USA
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). In addition, please mark your calendars for November 12th (3:30-4:30 p.m.) and 13th (6:30-8:00 p.m.), when Franco-American playwright Grégoire Chabot will present a series of monologues in French and English with his troop in Jewett Auditorium. We will also provide the texts of the monologues in advance, should you wish to use them in your classes.
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/
For information about financial support for candidates for National Board Certification,
click here.
Interested in hosting an international student?
Check out these websites:
Council on Standards for International Educational Travel
Do you have your copy of 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:
 | parents and your PTA/PTO |
| your local school board |
| your administrators and curriculum coordinator |
| your students |
| all teachers in your school |
| all schools in your district |
| your local pre-school programs |
| community service organizations such as Rotary Club, Lions Club, etc. |
If you would like your copy ($10 for FLAME members, $20 for non-members), please email
Ann Sullivan at mmesorciere@msn.com.
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.
ACTFL has launched a new sustained public awareness campaign for language education.
DiscoverLanguages.org is up and running! Check it out!
New Teachers--FLAME has created scholarships just for you to help support your professional development. Click here for information about these exciting new scholarships.
Last updated Nov. 9, 2009
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