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Category Archives: Vol. 53, No. 3 – Summer 2015
Advocacy
Stay Professionally Connected This Summer Sarah Shackelford, Advocacy Chair Happy Summer Break, everyone! I hope you will be able to take advantage of some needed “down time” to rest and to rejuvenate even while remembering to stay professionally connected, take … Continue reading
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OATC
Ohio Association of Teachers of Chinese (OATC) Ping Wu, Columbus School for Girls, OATC President The 2014-2015 academic year ended with a bang for Ohio’s teachers of Chinese. Highlights were trips to Atlanta for the National Chinese Language Conference (April … Continue reading
ODE Around the State
OTES – Will It Stay or Will It Go?!? Ryan Wertz, Kathy Shelton and Paula Sondej, World Language Consultants, Ohio Department of Education Since the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System, better known as OTES, first came onto the Ohio educational scene, … Continue reading
TESOL
TESOL Liaison Report Lillian Acker, TESOL Liaison, Ashland University The TESOL Conference will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center again this year on October 30 and 31, 2015. We will have invited guests who will discuss the … Continue reading
A Day in the Life of an Elementary Spanish Teacher
Samantha Chaney, Elementary Spanish Teacher, Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio, OFLA ELL Committee Member The day has just begun when a Spanish teacher enters her classroom. In her room, you don’t find textbooks, workbooks, and mountains of worksheets. … Continue reading
CSCTFL/OFLA 2016
Mark Your Calendar NOW for CSCTFL/OFLA 2016! Sarah Shackelford, CSCTFL/OFLA 2016 Program Chair 2016 conference Ad Mark your calendar NOW for CSCTFL/OFLA 2016! OFLA’s joint conference with the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages will be held … Continue reading
OTES Success, OFLA Teacher Evaluation Tool
María Postigo María Postigo is a native speaker from Spain. She teaches Spanish II, III/Hnrs & IV and is the Spanish Club Advisor at Canal Winchester HS. She is on the OFLA Secondary Language Learning Committee. She is also a … Continue reading
Paris and Beyond: Chance Encounters, Lifelong Learning
Pascale Abadie and Kirsten Halling, Wright State University The Wright State University French Ambassador Program is the longest running professor-designed and professor-led study abroad program at our university, counting a total of 185 student participants since its inception in 2003. … Continue reading
Taming the Technology Beast
Effective Use of Technology in the World Language Classroom Angela Gardner, Spanish Teacher, Ross Local Schools, Hamilton, Ohio With the constant barrage of new gadgets, gizmos, websites, tools, and other technologies buzzing all around us, it is easy to become … Continue reading
Tech in the News
Motivating students and integrating culture through Barcelona’s Congreso de Móviles (Mobile World Conference, MWC) María Postigo, CWHS Spanish III/IV Teacher, OFLA Secondary Language Learning Committee For the past 10 years, Barcelona (Spain) hosted the Mobile World Conference in March 2015. … Continue reading