Kevin Gaugler | April 20, 2011
In March I spoke at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenneesee about the future of language education and post-secondary education as a whole. Particularly, I set out to speak about the ACTFL map for 21st Century Skills and how I designed and have been teaching for nearly a decade a course that attempts to fosters 21st century skills [...]
Kevin Gaugler | April 3, 2011
Last year, for the first time, I taught an intensive two-week pre-college Spanish summer course at Marist College. In designing the course I set out to produce a 21st century Spanish composition and conversation course. In the class students discussed global issues, enhanced their media and information literacy skills, explored Hispanic culture in their local [...]
Kevin Gaugler | April 2, 2011
I’ve included here the audiovisuals for my recent presentation at NECTFL 2011. The idea for the talk is the result of my own observations about my students’ inability (even my best students’ inability) to say numbers beyond 1000. Apparently, speaking about numbers and with numbers constituted a low-frequency activity in the language courses with these [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 1, 2011
Kevin and I will be co-presenting at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages this weekend. We hope to give language educators an opportunity to explore the ways in which some of the currently experimental google lab projects could be used to support our language learners. What’s particularly intriguing is the way in [...]
Barbara Lindsey | March 24, 2011
Prior to becoming an ESL and social studies teacher, Larry Ferlazzo served for almost two decades as a community organizer. “Organizing,” Larry told us in our interview, “is just another word for relationship building.” Good teaching anchors learning through relationships—relationships with our peers, with our mentors, with members of our close and extended communities. We [...]
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