*AATF
* Maine Chapter*
American Association of Teachers of French
*AATF
* Maine Chapter*
American Association of Teachers of French
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Accès Cinéma Africain Penobscot School in Montréal (since 1997) This French immersion for adults and advanced-level students in the context of Montréal’s annual Festival de Cinéma PanAfrica International will be held April 22-25, 2010. The new Program Director is Dr. Abe Waldstein, Francophone Africa specialist. Co-Founder Julia Schulz will assist. For more information, please contact: Patti Luchetti, Executive Director, Penobscot School; 28 Gay St, Rockland, ME 04841; 207-594-1084; patti@languagelearning.org Information and registration forms available on line: www.cinema-africain.org C.E.U.’s are available.
Limited financial aid is available for Maine foreign language teachers in the form of $100 tuition grants. Funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis, thanks to the generous support of the David and Eleanore Rukin Philanthropic Foundation. The Foundation's wish is to address the need for professional development funds created by school budget cuts. Please request a scholarship application form with registration.
It’s time to start preparing for the 2010 Grand Concours, the
National French Contest of the American Association of Teachers of
French (AATF).
The dates for the 2010 National French Contest are February 15-26 for
FLES and March 1-28 for the Middle School/High School level. As in the
past, the exam will be administered in your own school. Please arrange
for testing in your school through a school administrator, guidance
counselor or another (non-French) teacher. All students are encouraged
to participate. Further information about the National French Contest
is available on the AATF web site at
http://www,frenchteachers.org/concours/.
The contest fees for AATF members are less than for non-members.
Current members of AATF pay $3.00 per student and non-members pay
$4.00. The CD for each level is $6.00. AATF is offering two types of
incentives to recruit new members.
In order to be eligible for the fee reductions, a teacher must be an
AATF member by January 1, 2010.
To limit unnecessary photocopy expenses, I have not included the
registration forms with this mailing. If you plan to offer the National
French Contest this year, please contact me via e-mail (preferred),
telephone, or snail mail and I will mail you all of the necessary
documents. Please notify me by December 4th
of your interest in participating in order to allow sufficient time for
you to receive and complete all necessary paperwork.
Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me.
If I can’t answer your questions immediately, I will contact the
National Contest Administrator to find the answers for you. I hope your
year is going smoothly and that I will hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Ruth
Haszko
Contest
Administrator for Maine
e-mail:
haszko@pair.com
telephone: 207-779-1709
Franco-American playwright Grégoire Chabot and his theatrical troupe will perform two fantastic shows in Jewett Auditorium at UMA!
A variety of monologues will be presented (in French and English) YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW FRENCH TO ENJOY THE SHOW! Thursday, November 12th from 3:30-4:45 1 monologue in French 2 monologues in English “Talk back” with the performers Friday, November 13th from 6:30-8:00 3 monologues in English 2 monologues in French JOIN US! SHOWS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC For more information, please contact Chelsea Ray at: chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu or 621-3487 These shows are made possible with the support of “Le Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques”
Chelsea Ray
Registration
for Spring 2010 begins very soon. Please note of the following course
offerings at the graduate level in French at UMaine. If you have any
questions, I will be more than happy to answer them. Just drop me a line
at Jane.Smith@umit.
French Film Series The French Club at the University of Maine at Farmington cordially invites you to a screening of the following films (English subtitles). All screenings at 7:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. ++Wednesday November 11th: De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté (2005) by Jacques Audiard, Room C23 Tom, a real estate thug, is torn between a criminal life and his desire to become a concert pianist. ++Wednesday November 18th: Paris, (2008) by Cédric Klapisch, Lincoln Auditorium Poetic view of Paris through the eyes of a young dying dancer. ++Wednesday December 2nd: Entre les murs (2008)by Laurent Cantet, Lincoln Auditorium Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood. ++Wednesday December 9th: Maurice Richard(2005) by Charles Binamé, Lincoln Auditorium Canadian Film about Maurice Richard, an outstanding hockey player, and about discrimination against French Canadians in the fifties and sixties in Quebec. For more information: Sylvie Charron, Professor of French, University of
Maine at Farmington, 270 Main Street, Farmington, ME04938, USA
If you would like to hear about French-related activities on the UMA campus, please contact Chelsea Ray , Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature (chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu), to have your name added to the general mailing list. This year, for example, we are offering a number of different programs: the “Fun in French for Kids” program for children ages 3-10 (high school student volunteers are welcome to participate); a French Conversation Table (on the first Thursday of every month from 2:30-3:45 p.m.); a French Conversation Course (Tuesdays from 3:00-4:00 p.m.), and a French Film Festival (Spring 2010). In addition, please mark your calendars for November 12th (3:30-4:30 p.m.) and 13th (6:30-8:00 p.m.), when Franco-American playwright Grégoire Chabot will present a series of monologues in French and English with his troop in Jewett Auditorium. We will also provide the texts of the monologues in advance, should you wish to use them in your classes.
Fall FLES Conference
The fall FLES Conference will take place on November 7 at the Manchester Elementary School. You will receive information in the mail. Contact Betsy McPhedran for further details. betsy_mcphedran@maranacook.org
AATF – Maine encourages teachers to apply for the $250 Richard Williamson Scholarship for Teachers (2010) to attend a workshop or seminar during the summer.
Purpose: The scholarship encourages French teachers to participate in a seminar or Conference, which will further their education and make them better teachers of French. Eligibility: · You need to be an active member of the Maine Chapter of AATF. · Please send a brief resume in English (1page or less) including where you teach, for how long, what your goals are, and how we can reach you. Also state program costs and how you are funding your attendance at the workshop/conference. · Write a brief letter in French (1page or less) explaining why you want to attend the workshop/conference and what you hope to gain from the experience.. · Promise to report on your experience at Fall AATF Conference. Deadlines and where to send application: · Applications will be due in the spring of 2010. · Please send application to Sylvie Charron by e-mail (use attachments) at scharron@maine.edu or by mail at Professor Sylvie Charron, Department of Humanities, 270 Main Street, Farmington, ME 04938. · Successful candidates will be notified by e-mail and mail.
Prospective Applicants K-12 teachers who hold conditional, transitional, provisional, professional, or targeted needs certificates in French have the opportunity to reach advanced levels of mastery in language and culture and develop the pedagogical knowledge required for full certification from the Maine State Department of Education. The M.A.T. in French is congruent with the new guidelines for Modern and Classical Language Teacher Endorsement. Teachers who are already fully certified in language education may opt for courses in French language and culture or for the study of a second foreign language at the intermediate level or higher in lieu of the courses leading to certification. For more information, click here.
Does one of your students demonstrate an interest in the study of French or international studies with a focus on the francophone world? If so, please consider nominating him or her for the Laurianna Boucher Scholarship. For more information, click here.
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Le lancement du livre Voyages A Maine Franco-American Reader de Nelson Madore et Barry Rodrigue a eu lieu samedi. C’est vraiment un très beau livre !
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On October 10, 2007, the State Board of Education unanimously approved Maine Department of Education Regulation 132 - Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction. The routine technical rule has been approved by the Attorney General and filed with the Secretary of State, with an effective date of October 22, 2007. The filing of this rule completes the final step in the comprehensive review of the Maine Learning Results. Please see Informational Letter #32 for additional information: http://www.maine.gov/education/edletrs/ilethome.shtml You will find RTF and PDF versions of the learning standards here: http://maine.gov/education/lres/pei/index.html
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| Great news!
In response to the critical state-wide need for more
qualified teachers of Modern Languages, the M.A.T. in French at the
University of Maine has been redesigned with the collaboration of the University
of Maine System and Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges. This program offers
intensive courses in a language immersion setting during the summer session and
academic-year courses by means of distance learning technology. For more
information, please click
here.
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Northeast will be presented with a one time opportunity to celebrate the arrival
of Samuel de Champlain in North America in 2008 and 2009. Don't miss the boat!
(Or more appropriately, the canoe.) French teachers may know that the ship that brought Lafayette to North America, l'Hermione, is being reconstructed at the Corderies Royales in Rochefort. You can visit the ship under construction and also the Corderies Royales (take the guided tour). When the ship is finished, currently expected around 2011, it will make a trip to Boston before returning to Rochefort where it will be on permanent display. L'HERMIONE: the frigate of enlightenment: http://hermione.free.fr/english/rebuild.html
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The Peace Corps' Coverdell World Wise Schools has hundreds of Peace Corps volunteers in 73 countries who are signed up for the Correspondence Match program, seeking to be connected with a US teacher for a two-year letter writing exchange (once a month). If you might be interested in participating, please go to our website and click Educators to sign up: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/correspond/
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The U.S. Department of Education's International Education Programs Service (IEPS) offers funding to promote expertise and competence in foreign languages and area and international studies. Click here for more information.
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The American Association of Teachers of French now has a Commission on Advocacy to defend your French program, whether you are a member or not. We have a national web site to explain our goals and
objectives: Though we cannot guarantee to thwart the bad guys, we can be your best chance to
save a good program, provided you let us know early enough. Of course, AATF
members receive regular news of what we are doing through our paper
publications:
http://www.frenchteachers.org . Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
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