Monthly Archives: February 2022

Richard Emch, Ohio Foreign Language Association PresidentFrench Teacher, North Royalton High School Planning a conference, particularly one the size and quality of the Ohio Foreign Language Association’s Annual Conference, is always quite an undertaking. As you can imagine, it has … Continue reading →

The Ohio Foreign Language Association voted at its February 12, 2022 board meeting to revise its Vision Statement. The inclusion of the word culture puts OFLA in step with the Ohio Department of Education’s Learning Standards for World Languages and Cultures adopted in March 2020. This is from ODE’s website:  In March … Continue reading →

Kaleigh Baker, OFLA Executive Vice PresidentSpanish Teacher, Butler High School If you are newer to being 1:1 with Chromebooks or iPads in your school, you have probably come across the problem where your former Word documents or PowerPoint presentations just … Continue reading →

Cheryl Johnson, OFLA Immediate Past PresidentInstructional Technologist for the Dept of Modern Languages, Denison University What is social annotation? As defined by Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation, “social annotation is reading and thinking together. It brings the age-old process of … Continue reading →

SpanishPlans.Org Lisa Howie, OFLA Executive TreasurerSpanish Teacher, Smithville High School I learned about this activity, like so many others I use, at an OFLA conference several years ago. Actually, I believe my colleague first showed me one in German and … Continue reading →

Beth Hanlon, OFLA Executive Recorder and Editor of The CardinalSpanish Teacher, Oberlin High School I want to first state that I realize how unbelievably late to the Pear Deck scene I am.  As a Xennial, I grew up as the … Continue reading →

Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations Milton Alan Turner, OFLA Editor for Electronic MediaFrench Teacher, Saint Ignatius High School The recent Disney film Encanto tells the story of the Madrigal family whose members … Continue reading →

Marianela Serrano, OFLA Professional Development ChairSpanish Teacher, Hathaway Brown School This school year, I made one of my goals to redefine my assessments.  In the unprecedented circumstances of the last few years, research about language acquisition and teaching has revealed … Continue reading →

Kirsten Halling, OFLA Public Relations and Advocacy ChairProfessor, Wright State University Advocacy comes naturally to language instructors, who are constantly faced with questions like, “What can you do with a language besides travel and teaching?” or, “Why learn a language … Continue reading →

Teri Wiechart, OFLA Membership ChairRetired French Teacher, Delphos Jefferson High School The main goal of a world language classroom is for students to become proficient enough in another language to be able to communicate in culturally appropriate ways with other … Continue reading →