Polyglot Press
January 27, 2015
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There are so many
great things going on, accomplishments being celebrated, challenges being met
and online treasures being found. Please share!
BRAVO
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Hats off to Spanish teacher Michelle Ballard at Forest Hills High
who in addition to teaching is also the Cheerleading Coach. Her team will
compete soon at Cheer for A Cure at
Sun Valley High School January 31. http://cheerforacure.org/give/yellowjacketcheersupportsacure
. In addition, she is on a school Meals Committee to make sure students
have enough to eat on long weekends and that athletes have meals after late
night competitions.
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Congrats to Spanish teacher Christina Bachiller who won the Excelsior Award at Weddington High http://wdhs.ucps.k12.nc.us/news/jump.php?news_id=382457
Professional Development
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Monday, February 9, 2015 Images,
Visuals, Pictures 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. at the PDC Room 207. Learn copyright and
the use of images found on the Internet, searching for images with appropriate
usage rights, locating and understanding the Terms of Service & Private
Polices, citing sources of images, inserting images by Lisa Phillips,
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February 28, 2015 – FLANC Proposals
Due - deadline to present at the FLANC conference Fall 2015. http://flanc.org/?sec=conference&page=proposal
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Saturday, February 21,
2015 FLANC
Spring Conference at UNC-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC - 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. one-day, K-20 conference
will be highlighting the "Best of FLANC" from the Fall 2014
Conference. $75 - $95 Option for 1 CEU with homework. Online registration is through February 10. Registration on site is
an option. http://flanc.org/?sec=conference&page=spring
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Friday – Saturday, March
5 – 6, 2015 SCOLT
Conference in Atlanta, Georgia (Southern Conference on Language Teaching) See
http://www.scolt.org/images/PDFs/Conference/2015/2015_SCOLT_CONFERENCE_SESSIONS_AT_A_GLANCE_No-Number-1-10-15.pdf
for full schedule
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March 24 – 25, 2015 World View’s Spring Seminar:
Latin America and North Carolina The annual Latin America and North
Carolina Seminar provides general and concurrent sessions for understanding
issues in Latin America as well as best practices in serving Latino/Hispanic
populations in our schools and colleges. This seminar is for all educators of
every grade-level and discipline. http://worldview.unc.edu/our-programs/seminars
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Browse the UCPS Staff Development Opportunities at https://sdm2.ucps.k12.nc.us/application/controllers/section/section_search.php?action=clear
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NC DPI Online
Professional Development Modules - There are many courses for CEUs that are
modules created by NC DPI. They are found at https://rt3nc.org/lib/cover/modules%20flyer%202014.pdf
They are listed on the UCPS Staff
Development page also. If the course is
not yet listed in our Staff Development Registration Manager, then you have put
in a prior-request form. Courses are self-paced, mini-courses, MOOClets and
facilitator led.
Improve Your Language Skills by Connecting with Native Speakers Online
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The Mixxer
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The Mixxer is
a free educational site for language learners hosted by Dickinson College.The Mixxer is designed to connect language
learners around the world ... http://www.language-exchanges.org
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Italki Not free. For Spanish only. Highly recommended. Also
features language teachers that you can do a free trial with and then hire if
you like to give you lessons. https://www.italki.com/?ref=howlearnspanish
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Busuu https://www.busuu.com/enc/ and Duolingo https://www.duolingo.com/ are both
free and both have online learning and access to native-speakers from around
the world
Publicity
It helps to promote your world language
program, its activities and accomplishments. See about posting updates from
your world language program on your school website.
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Tyler Vaughan is pictured
here receiving recognition as the Cuthbertson Middle School Teacher of the Year.
Mr. Vaughan has been the Spanish teacher at CMS for five
years. He graduated with a K-12 degree in Spanish Education from Appalachian
State University in 2010 and is a Union County native. At school, he is
involved in many leadership committees and constantly seeking to support
students through challenging, yet fun instructional opportunities. Outside of
school he is very involved in the community through coaching soccer http://cms.ucps.k12.nc.us/news/jump.php?news_id=381135
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The Union County Education Foundation awarded Cuthbertson
Middle School’s Pascale Perreau,
French teacher, with a $500 mini-grant. The mini-grant will be used to help
students experience authentic aspects of the French language and culture.
Mrs. Perreau’s eighth-grade yearlong French class corresponds with pen pals in
St.Andiol, France. Students exchange cards and treats
throughout the school year and on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and
Easter. The grant will help finance the exchange project and also provide
authentic French breakfasts throughout the year. http://cms.ucps.k12.nc.us/news/jump.php?news_id=382148
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Xiaohong
HuMueller had students write this article about a visiting Chinese
calligrapher that came to her Chinese class at Marvin Ridge High. http://mrhs.ucps.k12.nc.us/news/jump.php?news_id=382339
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MeiHui Wang had the
help of the media center director in writing up an article abut a visiting
Chinese calligrapher visiting from Beijing. http://mrms.ucps.k12.nc.us/news/jump.php?news_id=380168
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World
Languages at Cuthbertson Middle holds Ping Pong Tournament with posters and
chants in French and Chinese. http://cms.ucps.k12.nc.us/news/jump.php?news_id=382187
Congrats to Pascale Perreau and Lingyu Liao for organizing and
publicizing this event.
Advocacy for World Languages
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks Chinese at Tsinghua University in
Beijing China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_168pH9GJk 3
minute clip and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvSV7bgsClo 30
minute speech
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US Secretary of State
John Kerry speaks French in Paris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeFJrETA7PA 1 minute
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President Barack
Obama says your children should learn to speak Spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZprtPat1Vk 1:07 minutes
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Assistant Secretary
of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta
Jacobsen, speaks Spanish. She
heads US visits about reopening full diplomatic relations with Cuba. Univision http://noticias.univision.com/video/555170/2014-12-19/noticiero-univision/videos/reacciones-ante-nueva-situacion-de-cuba-con-eeuu 0:46 minutes.
DPI News
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New DPI Licensure Renewal Expectations – Did you know that that current expectations
of 7.5 CEUs to renew your license will change for those renewing in the school
year ending June 2016? K -8 will need 3 Content CEUs, 3 Literacy CEUs and 2
General CEUs. Al others will need 3 Content CEUs and 5 General CEUs http://pdc.ucps.k12.nc.us/news/jump.php?news_id=381918
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Forest Hills High School, Social Studies teacher Jennifer Whitley has been recognized as Region 6 Teacher of the Year. The NC
Teacher of the Year will be recognized in April 7, 2015.
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/newsroom/news/2014-15/20150114-01
Student Travel
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Full scholarships to study in Germany 2015-2016
Open to: U.S. citizens, national or
permanent residents; students between the ages of 15 years and 18 years and 6
months at the start of the program; current high school students at the time of
application, with a GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale. Previous German language
study is not a requirement and all levels of language ability are encouraged to
apply. http://bit.ly/BundestagYouthExchange
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2015 Chinese Bridge Summer Camp for American High
School Students Travel to China with NCSU Confucius Institute - Thursday 7/16/2015 - Friday 7/31/2015. High school students; Age between 14 and 18; grades from 9 to 12;
Non-Chinese learning background and less than three years of Chinese learning
experiences; Teacher chaperones needed Expenses in China are paid but
participant must pay their own way to China, visa, travel insurance and an
admin fee Application Deadline - Friday,
March 6, 2015 Interested? visit: http://oia.ncsu.edu/chinese-bridge-summer-camp
Study French in Raleigh at NCSU
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Friendship
and Mobility Grant: Additional Funding for Study Abroad in France - NC State is one of four grant recipients of the Transatlantic Friendship and Mobility Initiative, a grant to double the number of U.S students
going to France and French students coming to the U.S. by 2025. The same
grant will provide study options for high school students to participate in a
July 2015 summer intensive language courses in Raleigh, where students
will earn college credit and become eligible for guaranteed scholarships for
study on any program in France if they go on to become NC State students
http://dasa.ncsu.edu/blog/2014/12/11/friendship-and-mobility-grant-additional-funding-for-study-abroad-in-france/
Teaching Methods
Formative
assessment constitutes the
comprehension checks that should be done frequently throughout the lesson.
Simply stated: “Do the students understand what you are talking about? Are the
students with you? Do they get it?” Here are numerous ways to check that
students understand, be it in the target language or English. These were
presented in an EdWeb webinar January 21 by Barbara Cotter. EdWed http://home.edweb.net offers LOTS of free webinars on many topics:
Assessment, Tech Tools, New Teachers, etc.
Most are very good. People join from all over the world.
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Formative (Informal) Assessment Strategies http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/cms/lib07/MA01906464/Centricity/Domain/44/Formative_Informal.pdf
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Informal Formative Assessment Strategies http://www.rmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Informal_Assessment_Strategies.pdf
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33 Digital Tools for Advancing Formative
Assessment in the Classroom: https://www.nwea.org/blog/2014/33-digital-tools-advancing-formative-assessment-classroom
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Techniques to Check for Understanding - http://www.levy.k12.fl.us/instruction/Instructional_Tools/60FormativeAssessment.pdf
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Fantastic Formative Assessment Tools that Give
Great Feedback (all digital): https://www.graphite.org/blog/fantastic-formative-assessment-tools-that-give-great-feedback
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25 Quick Formative Assessments for a
Differentiated Classroom http://store.scholastic.com/content/stores/media/products/samples/21/9780545087421.pdf
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Inside / Outside Circles – How to use them http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/inside-outside-circles
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56 Different Examples of Formative Assessment: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nzhdnyMQmio5lNT75ITB45rHyLISHEEHZlHTWJRqLmQ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p
Technology Tips
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Sock Puppets - If you or your students are iphone or ipad users,
you will love the app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sock-puppets/id394504903?mt=8 . You can record in any language as one of the
cast of sock puppets. The app is free for 30 second recordings. Your voice is
adapted to ‘animated’ puppet talk to which the mouth syncs. Very easy and very
fun. For a small amount, you can increase the length to 90 seconds, add
puppets, etc. You can save the videos you create to your photos, to Facebook or
to your You Tube channel. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sock-puppets/id394504903?mt=8 See my first Sock Puppet video in Spanish at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mKMCjv8gU Please share any classroom-friendly Sock Puppet
videos!
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YouTube
Channel – Create your own videos and archive them in your own YouTube
channel. Free and easy. Upload your screencasts, your WeVideos, etc. Learn how
in this four minute video - How To Make A Youtube Channel 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m51Q-iEBIw Please
share your educational YouTube Channel.
Chinese Resources
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YoYo
Chinese – “Chinese taught in Plain English”: includes images, animation, free videos, etc. Method for
teaching adults that claims to be fun. “Chinese
on the Street” series helps you practice listening by bringing you authentic Designed
for English-speakers. Chinese dialogue from the streets of China. Includes
pinyin chart online https://www.yoyochinese.com
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