Quebec Celebrated its 400th birthday
on July 3, 2008!
French teachers might be interested to know
about these discounts on France Today and France-Amérique:
Teachers are entitled to a 20% discount off the magazine’s regular
subscription rate. This means an annual subscription to France Today will
cost you $36 instead of $45 and that an annual subscription to France-Amerique
will now cost you $40 instead of $50
Simply enter the
promotion code TEACHER09 when
you subscribe online to either France Today or France-Amerique and it will
automatically calculate the discount. Our online subscription pages are
available here:
http://www.france-amerique.com/magazine/abonnement.html
http://www.francetoday.com/magazine/subscribe.htmlWe would be happy
if you could share this information with your school contacts. Students
of French are also entitled to this 20% discount and can enter the
promotion code STUDENT09 when
subscribing online to enjoy this discount.
Methods Matter
A Practical Seminar on Teaching K-8 Foreign Language
July 27 - 29, 2009
8 am to 1 pm, Monday - Wednesday
Penobscot School in Rockland, Maine
Tuition: $185, includes 1.5 CEU
(FLAME members: $155)
Scholarships are available for Maine language teachers.
Scholarship Application requests should be directed to Patti Luchetti, Office
Manager at patti@languagelearning.org.
The registration deadline is June 26.
The
seminar will increase teachers’ practical skills for developing curriculum and
motivational strategies, based upon the latest research on language acquisition.
Course material will be meaningful for teachers of any language at any level;
examples will be given in French and Spanish. Participants will leave with
ready-for-the-classroom activities, games, and songs and with a new support
network of colleagues.
Presenters:
Julie von Kamecke: B.A. Russian, SUNY Oswego, founded the Spanish program at
Rockport Elementary School, Rockport Maine in 1998 and has been teaching since
1993. She is the current Maine Representative for NNELL (National Network for
Early Language Learning) and a Penobscot School Board Member. Trained and
actively engaged in curriculum planning, alignment with the Maine State Learning
Results, and local assessment work, Julie serves as a mentor and a resource for
teachers in her district and around the state.
Margot Stiassni-Sieracki: B.A. Williams College, M.A. French, University of
Illinois, M.A. Stanford University, has taught French and Spanish to grades K-8
in Maine since 1996, including at the Center for Teaching and Learning and Bath
Middle School. She has often led sing-a-longs with her guitar for Penobscot
School. Margot teaches that music is a powerful (and fun!) teaching tool for
language and cultural acquisition, useful for all teachers. Always on the
lookout for new approaches, she will provide you with practical activities,
techniques, chants and songs, plus resources to share with your students.
Accommodation extra; limited home-stays and on-site accommodations are
available, on a first come, first served basis.
BEN SLAVIC IS COMING TO MAINE OCT 8+9 2009 to do a TPRS workshop!
Ben Slavic, author of TPRS in a YEAR and PQA in a Wink, will be presenting a 2
day workshop in Lewiston, Maine. Please go to
http://www.poland-hs.u29.k12.me.us/ for more information and a registration
form. Click on the TPRS workshop with Ben Slavic box. Registrations paid before
AUGUST 24TH are only $99.00 - TOTAL FOR BOTH DAYS!. Hope to see you there!
PROGRAMME JULES VERNE
Sponsored by
the French Ministry of Education
and the
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
General Information
The Programme Jules Verne is a
new and exciting teaching initiative sponsored by the French Ministry of
Education and the Cultural Services at the French Embassy. The program, to be
implemented in American schools in Fall 2009, aims to encourage international
mobility for teachers while at the same time strengthening and developing
international and cultural relations between France and the United States. It is
our hope that in time, the program will develop into a reciprocal educational
exchange between school districts in France and in the United States.
The Programme Jules Verne will
send fully trained and certified elementary and secondary school teachers from
France abroad to teach in school systems all across the world. Created in the
spirit of the European Erasmus program which promotes cross-cultural exchanges
for students of varying nationalities, the Programme Jules Verne will allow
participants to live and teach outside of France for a full school year,
immersing themselves in the culture, language and civilization of the host
country.
Each teacher sent from France
will participate in the daily life of their school and will be exposed to
pedagogical methods popularly used in the United States, including various
teaching devices, grading systems, and theories regarding the orientation and
supervision of students. The program will encourage participating teachers to
pursue their love of education through the accomplishment of pedagogical goals
in a new professional environment.
Upon their return to France,
participants will reenter the French school system. Returning teachers will
conduct elementary classes in English or will teach their primary subject of
study to middle and high school students in English-language immersion
programs.
Teachers
The teacher’s full salary will
be provided by the French Ministry of Education. All program participants will
be fully trained teachers certified by the French government to teach in the
public school system at either the elementary or secondary level. Elementary
teachers will be licensed to teach general elementary school classes, including
French language and culture. Secondary teachers will be licensed to teach one of
a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to) French language and
literature, history, geography, mathematics, sciences. All participants will be
highly proficient in both spoken and written English (European Classification
Level B2 or higher). Teachers may participate in the program for a maximum of 2
years in a row.
Responsibilities of
participating Maine schools
The host school district in
Maine will be responsible for the following:
Payment of a round-trip plane ticket from France to Boston, Portland or Bangor
(dependent on flight itinerary and school location)
Payment of $750 annual fee for the visiting teacher to obtain or renew a
federal J-1 exchange visitor visa
Payment of the teacher’s health insurance required for a J-1 visa
Payment of travel costs for the teacher to attend a half-day required
orientation program in August in New York City (J-1 visa requirement)
Payment of the teacher’s expenses up to $200 to attend a 1-2 day orientation
program held in August in Augusta, ME
Payment of $100 application fee for an International Visiting Teacher Permit
issued by the Teacher Certification office of the Maine Department of
Education
Payment of $55 fee for a Criminal History Records Check (fingerprinting)
Payment of expenses for the teacher to attend the annual Foreign Language
Association of Maine (FLAME) Conference held in Portland, Maine in March 2010
Placement of the teacher with a temporary host/welcome family for the first
2-3 weeks until s/he locates suitable rental housing, the cost for which the
teacher will be responsible
Assistance in arranging for permanent rental housing and vehicle purchase or
lease (if necessary)
Full-time teaching assignment for the teacher
Assignment of a teacher mentor to the teacher
Apply now
Due to the length of the process
to acquire a U.S. exchange visitor J-1 visa, public schools in the United States
are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to receive a teacher from the
Programme Jules Verne. Priority will be given to school districts and states
that already have exchange agreements in place with school districts in France.
(The Maine Department of Education has a signed educational Memorandum of
Agreement with the Académie de Nantes, France.) Immersion schools will also be
given priority in the assignment of teachers from France to American schools.
Additional Information
Contact Don Reutershan, World
Languages Specialist, at the Maine Department of Education if you are interested
in participating in this program:
don.reutershan@maine.gov, tel. 207 624 6826.
Please note:
the deadline for application for the Richard Williamson Scholarship has been
extended to June 1.
MAINE
Richard Williamson Scholarship for Teachers (2009)
AATF – Maine encourages teachers to apply
for the $250 Richard Williamson Scholarship for Teachers (2009) 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 are due by MONDAYJune
1, 2009. Decisions will be made by the AATF- Maine Board by June 15, 2009.
·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.
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.
Are you, a teaching
colleague, or your school interested in establishing a partnership with a school
in France? If so, please read the information below.
On February 24, 2009
Commissioner Gendron and James Breece, Vice Chancellor of the University of
Maine System, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Académie de
Nantes, France. The purpose of the MOU is to foster educational collaboration
between Maine and the Académie de Nantes, which is responsible for directing
K-12 and postsecondary education in the Pays de la Loire region of France.
Through the MOU all partners
agree to develop a range of joint educational and research activities for
students, teachers, professors and school administrators. Examples of possible
cooperative projects include correspondence, visiting programs, and
study/research activities and exchanges that are either face-to-face or mediated
through technology. (Due to current economic conditions, overseas travel should
not be viewed as a required component to a project. The inclusion of travel
will depend on the extent to which partner schools are able to find ways to
finance the desired travel.) Examples of project themes range from a comparison
of French and American schools to a discussion of an environmental issue facing
your region or the state; from sharing cultural information (e.g. tourism,
history, visual and performing arts) to comparing geography and related
industries in Maine and the Pays de la Loire; from sharing information about
students’ families and/or friends to creating stories or plays together in
French and English.
If you or your school is interested in
developing a partnership project with a school in France, please click
here to complete the application form.
If you have additional questions, contact Don Reutershan at
don.reutershan@maine.gov. Thank you in advance for your interest in this
program.
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.
Penn Lauder CIBER is proud to announce our
Seventh
Annual
Summer
Institute for Teaching a Second Language for Business Communication
We have received information about a very exciting
international travel grant opportunity for US secondary level teachers through
the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA)
program. This program is funded by the U.S. Department of State
and is implemented by IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board).
they are currently
recruitingU.S. secondary-level
teachers of English or the social sciences to participate in a two-week
professional exchange program in one of the following countries: Argentina,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia,
Colombia, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana,
Guatemala, Honduras,
India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Senegal,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.
Click
here for more information about this
travel grant.
Concordia Language Villages offers two programs for
world language educators:
Second Language and Immersion Methodologies:
Educators of all world languages can enhance their understanding of second
language and immersion methodologies for the K-12 classroom. This ten-day
program is located in Bemidji, Minnesota, near Concordia Language Villages,
providing a great opportunity to see language teaching and learning in action!
Dates: June 21 - July 1. Cost $900 for the seminar; $682 for room and board.
Graduate credit is available. For those who wish to enroll in the seminar for
graduate credit, the cost is $1560 for four semester hours of graduate credit,
$84 for library and technology fees, and $682 for room and board. Visit:
www.ConcordiaLanguageVillages.org and click on "Educators" in the orange
navigation bar near the top of the website for more information or contact
educators@cord.edu.
Master of Education in World Language Instruction:
An innovative mix of online learning during the academic year and on-site
classes and observations at Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota,
during the month of July. Combining theory with practice, you will "live the
Language Villages experience" and find new ways to make language come alive for
your students. Applications are being accepted now. Visit
www.ConcordiaCollege.edu/graduate for more information or contact
educators@cord.edu.
Donna L. Clementi, Director
of Education and Research, Concordia Language Villages, 901 Eighth Street South,
Moorhead, MN 56562
You may contact me at my
home office:14 Penbrook Circle, Appleton, WI 54913, PHONE: 920-734-1170,
CELL: 651-341-9445, Email: Clementi@cord.edu
"Preparing young people
for responsible citizenship in our global community"
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43,
suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using
that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of
his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside
his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
* Wednesday March 11th. Education Center, room 113, 7 p.m.
In 1658, playwright/actor Molière, having been given a theater in the
capital by the King, is back in Paris after touring the kingdom of France
with his company of players. One day, a young lady asks him to follow her to
the deathbed of her mother... Thirteen years earlier, Molière already runs a
troupe but goes broke and is thrown to prison. Fortunately (?) his debt is
covered by Monsieur Jourdain, a rich man who wants him to help him rehearse
a one-act play he has written with a view to seducing a beautiful bright
young widow, Célimène. As Jourdain is married to Elmire, and is the
"respectable" father of two daughters his design must remain secret so
Molière is introduced into the house as Tartuffe, an austere priest...
* Wednesday March 25th. Lincoln Auditorium, 7 p.m.
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) directed by Jean-Marc Vallée,
with Michel Côté, Marc-André
Grondin, Danielle Proulx. 127 min.
It's a story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one
son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie.
That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from
all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. During the next 20 years, life
takes Zac on a surprising and unexpected journey that ultimately leads him
to accept his true nature and, even more importantly, leads his father to
love him for who he really is. A mystical fable about a modern-day
Christ-like figure, "C.R.A.Z.Y" exudes the beauty, the poetry and the
madness of the human spirit in all its contradictions.
* Wednesday April 8th. Education Center, room 113, 7 p.m.
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young
eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated
Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up,
she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic
fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji
dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send
her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves
an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a
different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound
disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji
finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman
and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.
* Wednesday April 29th. Lincoln Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Algeria, 1943, through Italy and France, to Alsace in early 1945, with a
coda years later. Arabs volunteer to fight Nazis to liberate France, their
motherland. We follow Saïd, dirt poor, an orderly for a grizzled sergeant,
Martinez, a pied noir with some willingness to speak up for his Arab troops;
Messaoud, a crack shot, who in Province falls in love with a French woman
who loves him back; and Abdelkader, a corporal, a budding intellectual with
a keen sense of injustice. Is the promise of liberty, equality, and
fraternity hollow?
Sylvie Charron, Professor of French, University of Maine at Farmington, 270 Main
Street, Farmington, ME 04938, USA
For a brief synopsis of each film, see: “NEWS
AND EVENTS” at
www.uma.edu
The Tournées Festivalwas made possible with the support of
the Cultural Services of the
French Embassy and the French Ministry of
Culture (CNC).
High School Diploma Requirements
The 123rd Maine Legislature
established a stakeholder group to review curriculum requirements and
standards for awarding a high school diploma. The group was established
by legislative resolution (LD
2174). The group began meeting in August 2008 and completed its work
November 25, 2008, when it presented final recommendations to Commissioner
Gendron. She will review the recommendations and determine appropriate
next steps for implementation.
The report contains important implications for
world language teachers and lists the diploma requirements:
•The diploma for each secondary school student shall reflect
credits earned in all eight content areas.
•Credit: The diploma will be based on standards in Maine’s
Learning Results as measured by credits. The definition of a credit is
the successful demonstration of the content standards in the Maine
Learning Results specified in units of study or syllabi.
•Although all students will have educational experiences in all 8
content areas, in order to be awarded a diploma all students shall meet
the standards in the following 4 common areas statewide::
ØEnglish Language Arts
ØMath
ØScience & Technology
ØSocial Studies
•The student will select one other area of the following three
areas to meet the standards:
Ø Heath Education and Physical Education,
ØVisual and Performing Arts, or
ØWorld Languages.
Ø In lieu of one of these areas a student may meet the
requirement of a national industry certification.
•Students must at least partially meet the standards in the
remaining two to three areas:
ØHeath Education and Physical Education,
ØVisual and Performing Arts, or
ØWorld Languages
NOTE: Career and Education Development standards
will be imbedded in the other 7 content areas.
As
a teacher, enjoy FREE
LODGING in Montreal next summer…
NEH
SEMINAR FOR TEACHERS, JULY 2009 in AVIGNON, FRANCE.
Dr. Mary Ann Witt of
North Carolina State University will direct a seminar on modern French
theater in Avignon, France. The seminar, conducted in French, runs from
June 29 to July 24, 2009. The seminar is an intense study of major 20th
century plays by Sartre, Genet, Ionesco, and Genet. In addition to the
seminar, participants attend and discuss plays produced at the Avignon
theater festival.
New Rich Internet Applications for
Language Learning
Source: CLEAR
The Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State
University has had rich Internet applications available free to language
teachers for some time now. New additions include the following:
-The Broadcasts program allows you to record audio files and distribute
them to your students for playback on the computer or on their portable
media devices.
-Worksheets is a program that allows teachers to create worksheets that go
beyond the capabilities of paper-based worksheets, adding interactive and
multimedia elements such as drag-drop matching, instant feedback, and
audio recording and playback.
-Revisions, and online writing lab, is coming in October 2008.
Learn more about and use these and other rich Internet applications at:
Course Description Franco-American Women's Project: Borders and Beyond
This course will examine the intersection of the past, present and
future texts, in comparison/contrast with writings that cross borders
and go beyond the borders. Through various mediums, the course will
explore the expression of the self, the imagination, the geography,
the crossing of oceans, the past events that continue into the
future--time and space measured by texts and contexts of literature
and story. A world within a world—visibility of presence outside of
the mainstream focus: What constitutes story of a cultural group such
as the Franco-American women? Métis women? Francophone women of color?
Does an event cease to happen in its own time, or does it effect the
future generations with each new examination of the event and its
representation? Do stories relate and inter-relate, weaving
complexities across texts, back to the original and newly fashioned
genres? Where is the future generation's literary, legacy bound?
What does the absence of presence of the French women mean in the area
of Ethnic or Women’s Studies in many areas of publication such as
anthologies, textbooks and more? Borders, boundaries, time, space,
texts, contexts, events, and the future of literatures will be
examined through the lens of FrancoAmerican/Métis/Francophone women of
color, women-defined, examination of writings and more. Texts, plays,
film, music, artifacts, etc. will be some of the mediums explored in
this course. The course will be writing intensive, students will
conduct original research, and publish final projects online.
To register, contact:
UMaine Continuing & Distance Education
Questions or Comments? Call Toll Free 1-877-947-HELP or E-mail C&d
122 Chadbourne Hall, University of Maine,
Orono, 04469-5713
phone:(207)581-3143 fax:(207)581-3141 http://dll.umaine.edu/cd/
Instructor:
Rhea Côté Robbins, M.A.
WIC
Fernald Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
or
641 So. Main St.
Brewer, Maine 04412-2516 Rhea_Cote@umit.maine.edu
or RJCR@aol.com
Phone: 207-989-7059
FAX: 207-989-7059
Prerequisites
This class will utilize email, computer conferencing and the World
Wide Web, requiring students to log on the Internet for lessons,
reaction responses, and online discussion. The class will include
intensive text-based online discussion.
Weeks of the course:
France, Canada and Slavery
Haitian Women's Literature
Diasporas
Counting on Grace
Political Women
Performers
Crime! Scandal and Social Issues
The Challenged
Lesbian Women
Women & Wars
Stories Re-written
Speak White
Artists
Raging Grannies
Final Project
Do you need research to defend or build your program?
This document is a compilation of resources on the benefits of learning
languages from the NEA website. Take a look! There's lots of valuable
information. Thanks to Grace Leavitt for submitting it.
Gisela Hoecherl
Alden has put together a marvelous brochure describing reasons for
learning languages. It is suitable for students, parents, school board
members--anyone thinking about language learning. Please feel free to
download it and to distribute it as
you see fit.
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 !
Book Description:
Dozens of voices celebrate--in essays, stories, plays, poetry, songs, and
art--the Franco-American and Acadian experience in Maine. They explore
subjects as diverse as Quebec-Maine frontier history, immigrant drama,
work, genealogy, discrimination, women, community affairs, religion,
archeology, politics, literature, language, and humor. The voices,
themselves, are equally diverse, including Norman Beaupré, Michael
Michaud, Ross and Judy Paradis, Susann Pelletier, John Martin, Béatrice
Craig, Michael Parent, Linda Pervier, Alaric Faulkner, Ray Levasseur, Yves
Frenette, Paul Paré, Yvon Labbé, Rev. Clement Thibodeau, Bob Chenard,
Denis Ledoux, Josée Vachon, Greg Chabot, Jean-Paul Poulain, Stewart Doty,
Rhea Côté Robbins, and many others. This is a rich resource and an
engaging read, one that will resonate with many.
If you buy it through Amazon.com, it’s $10 cheaper than the list price!
On October 10, 2007, the State Board of Education unanimously approvedMaine 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 theMaine Learning Results.
You will find RTF
and PDF versions of the learning standards here:
http://maine.gov/education/lres/pei/index.html
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.
French teachers in the
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.
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:
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.
If you are an AATF member and your address or email has
changed recently, please send these changes to
address@frenchteachers.org.
Interested in hosting a student from
abroad? Click
here for more information about Youth for Understanding.
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.
What do we do? We work with you to develop a group of local and state allies
(at school, in business, in the local and state political scene, among parents,
etc.). We help you develop a corpus of local-specific knowledge and give you
state specific reasons why French is important. Among these allies, in most
cases we can put you in contact with a chapter advocacy team.
What kind of knowledge do we offer? Recent economic, demographic, historical
knowledge about your state that can be openers with power brokers or part of a
winning argument in a debate. We offer the addresses of valuable contacts from
consulates, state supervisors, your state's AATF chapters, regional chapters of
the Alliance Française, and many more.
What else will we do? We will help you create a game plan, and then play an
appropriate role in its execution.
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 .
I might add that we have been active in a number of states promoting the general
good of taking languages.
Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Professor of French
University of Tennessee at Martin
Professor of French
Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
University of Tennessee at Martin
Vice President, American Association of Teachers of French
Director, Globegate Intercultural Web Project
Editor, Société François Villon Bulletin bobp@utm.edu
*AATF
* Maine Chapter* 
