Sentences with phrase «foreign language teachers at»

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Then at birth they can distinguish between the sound of their native language and a foreign language, suggesting that moms are their babies» first language teachers.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages has all kinds of tools on its Web site at www.actfl.org, including a new networking hub that allows foreign language teachers to connect with each other via discussion groups andForeign Languages has all kinds of tools on its Web site at www.actfl.org, including a new networking hub that allows foreign language teachers to connect with each other via discussion groups andforeign language teachers to connect with each other via discussion groups and blogs.

The most successful and developed cooperatives begin to look quite a bit like schools, with an adult teacher in the front lecturing to rows of students sitting quietly at desks, sometimes hiring experts to teach advanced subjects like calculus, foreign languages, or physics.

This initiative at Iowa State University, whose mission is to improve K - 12 foreign language teaching across the country, is a good place to connect with other like - minded teachers.

A few days later, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that LSU planned to lay off 14 foreign language instructors (that is, non-tenured teachers) at the end of Fall semester.

Used mostly to fill vacancies in subjects including math, sciences, and foreign languages, teachers trained in these programs are found at both the elementary and secondary school levels.

The Internet is full of foreign language content, but locating reading material that's interesting to the individual, at their level and buried within the English, Spanish or German speaking world - wide - web can be an overwhelming and off - putting challenge for students and teachers alike.

That directive was designed to increase student and teacher exchanges, and to strengthen foreign language study at every level.

13 - 16 — Foreign language: Annual convention, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French, for French teachers at all levels, to be held at the St. Anthony Hotel in San AntoniTeachers of French, for French teachers at all levels, to be held at the St. Anthony Hotel in San Antoniteachers at all levels, to be held at the St. Anthony Hotel in San Antonio, Tex..

The course, Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching, is aimed at professional language teachers, as well as those in undergraduate and postgraduate education, and of course anyone interested more generally in dyslexia and language learning.

But at many of the approximately 160 remaining dual language programs around the city, principals are struggling to fill the teaching spots amid a dearth of certified foreign language teachers, parents and experts said.

Another Louisiana foreign language teacher, who asked not to be named because he feared for his job, said Spanish teachers at his school in the New Orleans area received no advance information about the test.

At the high school level, foreign language teachers often sponsor and supervise foreign language clubs and related extracurricular activities.

At the end of the week, we'll be exhibiting at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention in Nashville, hoping to meet foreign language teachers who are interested in working at independent schoolAt the end of the week, we'll be exhibiting at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention in Nashville, hoping to meet foreign language teachers who are interested in working at independent schoolat the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention in Nashville, hoping to meet foreign language teachers who are interested in working at independent sForeign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention in Nashville, hoping to meet foreign language teachers who are interested in working at independent sforeign language teachers who are interested in working at independent schoolat independent schools.

1961 The Kamehameha Schools hire former University of Hawai`i music teacher Ms. Dorothy Kahananui to teach Hawaiian as an elective foreign language at the Kamehameha Schools.

Sarah Jourdain, director of foreign - language teacher preparation at Stony Brook University, said she has encountered cases where school districts have not allowed student teachers to videotape their classroom work, out of concern for the privacy of their own younger students.

At UV, students can become the teacher they want to be, with study areas available in foreign language, math, reading, ESL, special education, gifted education and more.

Specific provisions included scholarships and loans to students in higher education, with loans to students preparing to be teachers and to those who showed promise in the curricular areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and modern foreign languages; grants to states for programs in mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages in public schools; the establishment of centres to expand and improve the teaching of languages; help to graduate students, including fellowships for doctoral students to prepare them to be professors at institutions of higher learning; assistance for the improvement of guidance, counseling, and testing programs; provisions for research and experimentation in the use of television, radio, motion pictures, and related media for educational purposes; and the improvement of statistical services at the state level.

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

A neurological phenomenon that causes a person to associate colors with everything from letters to days of the week and even people and emotions, graphemeàcolor synesthesia doesn't have many practical uses in my own life, unless you count the time I filled awkward silences at my spouse's company Christmas party by entertaining acquaintances with the colors my brain links to two particularly unpopular high school foreign language teachers with whom everyone in the group happened to share an F - filled history.

Full - time teacher at any school of math, science, foreign languages, bilingual education, or other fields designated as teacher shortage areas

The French teacher was let go in October due to district budget cuts (and is now at San Diego High - International) but Spanish and German are offered as foreign languages - Spanish up to the AP level & the pass rate is very good.