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2014 Central States Conference
Sarah Shackelford Hope you are making plans to join us in St. Louis on March 20-22 for the 2014 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The Conference Preview is available at http://www.csctfl.org and includes more than 180 sessions … Continue reading
An Unexpected Encounter with LinguaFolio
Carol Eiber, Stow-Munroe Falls HS, Retired It is surprising where LinguaFolio turns up. I hardly expected to see it while traveling for pleasure in France last April but that’s exactly what happened.
Camp OFLA Celebrates Ten Years
New Plans are under way for Camp OFLA 2014! Dr. Lori Winne/Co-director, Camp OFLA Camp OFLA 2014 will celebrate its tenth year this summer! Camp OFLA is a one-week elementary residential camp in Ohio sponsored by the Ohio Foreign Language … Continue reading
Connecting With the Community
Medina High School Chinese Class Booth At The 5th Medina International Fest Shasha Gibbs, Chinese Teacher, Medina High School On August 24, Medina had its 5th Medina International Fest. Students from Medina High School who are taking Mandarin Chinese participated … Continue reading
El Día de Gracias (Thanksgiving Day)
Writing Our Own Bilingual Thanksgiving Story Paulina Montaldo, New Castle Christian Academy, Spanish Teacher K – 8th The 4th and 5th graders at the New Castle Christian Academy have worked writing a bilingual story, English / Spanish, about Thanksgiving.
How I “Hacked” Google Docs To Facilitate Planning, Collaboration, & Communication
Becky Searls, Spanish Teacher, Upper Arlington City Schools I’ve been using Google Docs (renamed Google Drive in recent years) for quite some time now and have gotten to the point where it has 99% replaced any other word processing or … Continue reading
Innovating Homework
Moving Beyond the Workbook Kirsten Dickerson, Mentor High School Dickerson@mentorschools.org @CardinalFrench I am smack dab in the middle of my eleventh year teaching French, and I must admit that – besides my first year when I cried every day – this … Continue reading
Innovative Teaching Strategies For Second Language Acquisition in the 21st Century
María Postigo María Postigo is a native speaker from Spain. She teaches Spanish III/Honors & IV and is the Spanish Club Advisor at Canal Winchester HS. She is on the OFLA Secondary Language Learning Committee. She is also working on … Continue reading
Building Arabic Programs in Ohio
The Most Commonly Taught of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Jennifer Nichols, Kenyon College In the mid-1980s, I began studying Arabic with Dr. Mahdi Alosh in my high school at Worthington (now Worthington-Kilborne). The program only lasted a couple of … Continue reading
It’s Great – When You Collaborate!
Art, English and Spanish Join Forces Jennifer Coppolino, Immaculate Heart of Mary Grade School, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio/K-8 Spanish Teacher
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