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What's going to happen now that
the "2005: Year of Languages" initiative has ended?
Click on the logo above to find out.
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Alliance Française
Essay Contest for 2012
This
year's Alliance Française Essay Contest will be held at
Pomperaug High School in Southbury, CT on Wednesday, February
15, 2012 from 3:45 - 5:45. Below you
will find links to the two
necessary forms - the student information form and the waiver
form, both of which must be brought on the day of the contest.
In addition, students are allowed to bring a dictionary to use
during the contest. For more information,
please click on the links below.
Essay Contest Announcement
Student Information Form
Regulations and Waiver
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French Summer Language Institute for High School Teachers
French Summer Language Institute for High School Teachers
offered in beautiful Angers, France! Southern Oregon University
offers an intensive summer program designed specifically for
Middle School, High School, and Community College French
teachers taught in Angers, France. Option to obtain your Master
of Arts in French Language Teaching over three summers. Obtain
the most up-to-date second language acquisition theories and
methodologies while improving language proficiency and cultural
understanding. Southern Oregon University is a fully accredited
public university. For more information, see our attached
brochure, or visit our website at
www.sou.edu/summerlanguageinstitute/french,
or email
frenchsli@sou.edu.
To view a brochure about
this program, please click here.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ALL CT COLT
EVENTS
(Fall Conference, Poetry Contest, Poster
Contest, Essay Contest, Rhyme Celebration, The Technology
Academy,
Student
Awards/Excellence, Scholarships, Awards)
Participation in all CT COLT events now requires
membership to CT COLT. Membership is based on a calendar
year. Please join us and take advantage of our new
initiatives, as well as our well
established ones. We look forward to working
with you and hope you will become involved in our many
activities.
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2012 CT COLT Poetry Recitation Contest
The Poetry Recitation Contest will be held
on Thursday, April 26, 2012
at Bristol Eastern High School.
Please note that in order for
students to participate in the contest, their teachers MUST be
current members of CT COLT. More details about the contest
will be available on this page by mid-November. There are
several changes to the rules, regulations and procedures.
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U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program
Dear Ms. Dalpe,
I would like to introduce to you and
the teachers who are affiliated with your organization a unique
opportunity to teach in China and learn about Chinese language
and culture through the U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program.
Now in its sixteenth year, the program sends American K-12
teachers to China to teach English in Chinese secondary schools,
and places Chinese secondary school teachers of English in
American schools to teach Chinese language and culture, and
where appropriate, English as a Second Language.
We seek experienced American K-12
teachers of any level and any subject who will return to the
U.S. committed to improving teaching about China in American
schools. While in China, they teach English in Chinese secondary
schools. The teachers leave the U.S. in late August for the
school year that begins on September 1, and are generally
finished with their teaching duties in late June. The Chinese
school year runs through early July, but the students are
reviewing for and then taking exams in which the American
teachers have no role.
The exchange program also brings
Chinese secondary school teachers of English to the U.S. They
spend the school year teaching Chinese language, Chinese culture
(history, literature, arts), and/or, where appropriate, English
as a Second Language. It is not required that every school or
district both send and receive. We are flexible, hoping to
satisfy the needs and interests of individual teachers, their
schools, and their districts.
Following this message you will find
an announcement about the Teachers Exchange Program. We would
appreciate it if you would disseminate information about the
program through newsletters and online listservs, advising
prospective applicants to write to e-mail tep@ncuscr.org for
additional information and an application. They may also contact
us by snail mail at:
Teachers Exchange Program, National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations
71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1901, New
York, NY 10010-4102
Interested teachers may also learn
more about the program from our website:
http://www.ncuscr.org/programs/tep
<http://www.ncuscr.org/programs/tep>
.
The application deadline for the
2012-2013 academic year is March 1, 2012. Thank you for your
interest in the U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program. Please do
not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Hu Di
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NEW
The CT COLT World Language
News Exchange is now ONLINE NEW
Please click on the
issues listed below to read them ONLINE!
Winter 2010-2011
Links to this newsletter and future newsletters
are located on the "Newsletter" page of this site.
You can access that page by clicking
on the "Newsletter" button at the bottom of this page.
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Master of Arts in Romance Languages
Now Being Offered At
Southern CT State University
Southern Connecticut State University
now offers a Master of Arts in Romance Languages. Designed
for students interested in French, Italian or Spanish, the
program provides training in language and literature, as
well as literary and cultural theory for those who wish to
teach these languages at the elementary, middle school or
high school level (whether they are seeking initial
certification or cross endorsement), to work in related
fields (such as translation, foreign service, private
industry), or to continue graduate work to the doctoral
degree. The MA in Romance Languages has rolling admissions.
Applications to matriculate either in the fall or spring
semester are now being accepted year round. For more
information, please email
larkine3@southernct.edu or call (203)392-6766.
To view the poster advertisement, please
click here.
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CT COLT Student Summer Program
Scholarships
NEW
Summer World Language
Experience Student Scholarship
NEW
The Connecticut Council of
Languages Teachers has established a scholarship for Connecticut
students (pre-K through 12th grade) to help defray the cost of
summer language study in an existing approved summer language
experience program. The maximum award is $500, not to
exceed the total cost of the language experience.
For more information and the
registration form and recommendation form, please
click here.
NEW
Francofête Scholarship
NEW
The Connecticut Council of
Languages Teachers in conjunction with the Francofête Committee has established a scholarship for students
from Connecticut studying French in Grades 9, 10, and 11.
The purpose of the scholarship is to help defray the cost of
summer language study IN FRENCH ONLY in an existing approved
French summer language
experience program. The maximum award is $300, not to
exceed the total cost of the language experience. This
scholarship will be offered for ONLY three years (2011,
2012, and 2013).
For more information and the
registration form and recommendation form, please
click here.
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Educators Wanted to Mentor
Aspect Foundation Exchange Students
Educators
wanted to mentor Aspect Foundation exchange students
coming to CT high schools for the 2010-2011 school year.
Mentors will help locate and screen a volunteer host
family in their community and�supervise the student and
family throughout the school year. Students arrive in
August and stay for one or two semesters. This is a
part-time independent contractor position working with
two or�more students. Compensation is $800 per student.
Please visit
www.americanhostfamily.org
or call 1-800-US YOUTH for more information or an
application.
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France
Honors Five Connecticut Teachers
with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
The
recipients of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques:
Carol A. Kearns, Margaret Nocturne,
Nancy Silander, Sharon Straka, and Brian
Carter pictured with Pierre Vimont,
Ambassador of France to the United
States.
May 9, 2008.
New Haven, CT — On Monday, May 12, Pierre Vimont,
Ambassador of France to the United States, conferred the
insignia of Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Acad émiques
upon five Connecticut teachers: Brian Carter, PIER
Outreach Director, European Studies, Yale University,
New Haven; Carol A. Kearns, French teacher emeritus,
Litchfield High School, Litchfield; Margaret Nocturne, French
teacher, Joel Barlow High School, West Redding; Nancy
Silander, French teacher, E.O. Smith High School,
Storrs; and Sharon Straka, Director, Center for the
Teaching of French, Yale University, New Haven.
The presentation took place at a private reception at
Yale University. Following the presentation, Ambassador
Vimont gave a public address on the topic "France,
Europe, and the United States: What Prospects for
Trans-Atlantic Relations" in Rosenfeld Hall, 109 Grove
Street, at 3:30 p.m.
The Ordre des Palmes Académiques
(Order of Academic Palms) was founded by Napoleon
Bonaparte in 1808. A brilliant administrator, Napoleon
appreciated the importance of education, and he
established the honorary titles of Titulaire,
Officier de l'Université,
and Officier d'Académie
as awards for devotion and accomplishment in the areas
of teaching,
scholarship, and research. In more recent times, this
award was made a ministerial Order under the French
Minister of Education and now has three ranks—Chevalier,
Officier, and Commandeur.
Pierre
Vimont was appointed Ambassador of France to the United
States by President Nicolas Sarkozy on August 1, 2007.
Prior to his present appointment, Mr. Vimont was
Chief of
Staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position he
had held since 2002. He was previously Ambassador and
Permanent Representative of France to the European Union
from 1999 to 2002. His talk can be accessed with this
link:
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/multimedia.htm.
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An Interesting
Free World Language Related Web Site
Bill Zimmerman wants to share with you news of his newest
educational project and also ask for your help to make it
succeed.
A year ago he launched a new
web site --
http://
www.makebeliefscomix.com
-- where children and adults can create their own comic
strips. They can select from 15 fun characters with
different moods -- happy, sad, angry, worried – and write
words for blank talk and thought balloons to make their
characters talk and think. There also are story ideas and
prompts to help users create graphic stories.
This site can be used by educators to teach language,
reading and writing skills, and also for students in
English-as-a-Second-Language programs to facilitate
self-expression and storytelling, as well as computer
literacy. It is now being used in 150 countries by
educators.
Some educational therapists use it with deaf and autistic
people to help them understand concepts and communicate.
Parents and children can create stories together, print them
to create comic books or email them to friends and family.
Others will find the site a resource to be creative, calm
down and have fun.
Because so many Spanish-speaking users asked us for the
ability to write their cartoons in Spanish as well as in
English, we recently upgraded the site to accept words
written in Spanish, including appropriate accent marks. This
can be a useful tool for someone who is learning Spanish as
well as someone whose first language is Spanish. This
feature is being expanded to other languages, such as
French, Italian and German.
Mr. Zimmerman hopes that you
will share
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
with your colleagues, teachers, students or readers of your
publications and resource lists. The site is free with no
advertising. Any help you might offer in getting word out
about this project will be greatly appreciated.
If you can suggest other people or groups whom he might
contact to make them aware of the site please send me their
names, email addresses or phone numbers. Any list-servs he
might join? Relevant Internet resource sharing groups would
be helpful, too. It takes a community to build a useful
resource like this one.
As one
who learned to read with comic books, he knows that creating
comic strips can help people tap into their creativity and
practice their language and storytelling skills. The site
is free and stems from his lifelong mission to create
resources that help people find their voice and express
themselves. The concept for makebeliefscomix.com
is derived from his earlier books, Make Beliefs
and Make Beliefs for Kids of All Ages (which can be
found on his other web site: http://www.billztreasurechest.com.
A Make Beliefs interactive feature appeared for 13 years on
his syndicated Student Briefing Page for Newsday, and in
National Geographic’s World Magazine.
He hope you like
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
and will use it in your work
and personal life. Your feedback is welcome and very
helpful. Mr. Zimmerman may be reached at
wmz@aol.com.
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Last year, in an effort to
promote foreign languages, TFLTA
(Tennessee Foreign
Language Teaching Association)
sponsored a state-wide quilt project.
Their end result was
an amazing quilt which represented
several schools, elementary through university
levels in the state of
Tennessee.
This year, because
the TFLTA state
conference will be held in conjunction with
ACTFL, TFLTA is broadening
the scope of their original
project by making a “national” quilt.
They have encouraged
all the state organizations to send a quilt
square representing their
individual states.
The quilt squares from the
various states will then be made into a
quilt which will be on display in Nashville at
the ACTFL convention in November.
Above you will see CT COLT's contribution to
this national quilt that will be on display at
the ACTFL convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
CT COLT's quilt square was designed and created
by Lynne Campbell (Glastonbury Public Schools),
the ACTR representative to the CT COLT board of
directors. Great job, Lynne!
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 Downloadable
CT COLT Tri-fold Brochure
This
tri-fold brochure has been designed for members and
non-members of CT COLT. If you are a
member, you can download this brochure,
print it and pass it on to your non-member
colleagues. If you are not a member of
CT COLT, we encourage you to download this
brochure and check out the benefits that CT
COLT offers to its members.
CT COLT
Brochure
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