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Colorado Conference
of Foreign Language
TeachersAfiliated with the Southwest
Conference on Language Teaching, the
Central States Conference and the
American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages
Dear World Language Colleagues,
What an amazing week! The CCFLT Spring Conference, February 21-23, 2013 was an amazing experience.
rom our Thursday evening 2-hour sessions to the general session Keynote address, from our wine and cheese
ecepons to our Awards Luncheon, from the incredible (almost professional!) student singers from Fossil
Ridge High School, from the on-target, well-presented sessions to the outstanding talent and leadership of
Colorado foreign language teachers, it was the crme de la crme of conferences! Thank you all for aending,
or presenng and for stepping up to the challenge of leadership in Colorado! And, most especially, thank you
to the Board of Directors for CCFLT who worked relessly for an enre
year to make sure that everything was in place and ran smoothly --- you
are very simply THE BEST!
Then February 27, 2013, Toni Theisen, ACTFL president, Noah Geisel,
ACTFL Teacher of the Year, Janine Erickson, Past ACTFL President and Deb-
bie Cody and myself had the privilege of advocang for foreign languages
to the Joint House and Senate Educaon Commiee at our State Capitol.
Please take a moment to read through our presentaon in this newsleer.
And be prepared for GREAT things to happen, because we are not done
yet!
I also want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for the opportunity
to serve as your CCFLT president. This has been a great learning experi-
nce for me and has given me the chance to connect with Colorado teachers and teachers from all over the
world at our regional and naonal conferences. I have brought back so many of your ideas and foresights to
my district and to the state commiees I have served on. Working with the two Boards during my tenure has
een such a pleasure and just plain fun! When I ran for the Board in 2007 I thought that I would be giving back
o an organizaon that has given me so much throughout many years. The truth is that I gained so much more
han I gave and for this I thank all of you. Thank you for your support, suggesons, and guidance as I made this
ourney. It is teachers serving students who are at the heart of CCFLT.
Le monde est un livre dont chaque pas nous ouvre une page.Alphonse de LAMARTINE, Voyage en Orient VIII
he world is a book; each step opens a page for us.
ll see you next year at the CCFLT 52nd
Annual Spring Conference!
Anna Crocker
resident 2010-2011, Co-President 2012-2013
IN THIS ISSUE
Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers www.cct.org April 2013 Page 1
The Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers Volume 32 Number 2
Aliated with the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, the Central States Conference and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Co-Presidents Leer Page 1
Co-Presidents Leer Page 2
Board of Directors Page 3
President Elect Leer Page 4
Fall Conference Flyer
Page 5
Thank You! Page 6
Genevieve Over-
man Service Award
Page 7
2013 TOY Page 8
TOY Nominaon
Form
Page 1
TOY Nominaon
Form
Page 1
CCFLT Awards Page 1
Why Serve? Page 1
Elecon Results Page 1
Presentaon to
House and Senate
Page 1
Technology Page 2
ACTFL Awards Page 2
2014 Spring
Conference
Page 2
Register Onlinefor
the Fall Conference
(Coming Soon)
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I certainly hope you thoroughly enjoyed yourself at our Spring Conference!
We have heard so many compliments on the sessions, food, keynote and
new layout. If you werent with us this year, you picked a bad one to miss!
There was something for everyone. Our keynote speaker, Yo Azama, alone
was worth the price of registraon.
We elected several new members to the CCFLT board, and I want to person-
ally welcome them all. They are dedicang their own me to serve you.
Please thank them as you see them throughout the coming year. CCFLT
could not do all it does without members willing to sacrice their me and
work on our behalf.
We gave out many awards this year. Congratulaons to our recipients! Unfortunately, a few went un-
claimed. This year, make it a priority to nominate someone for one of our many awards, encourage your
colleagues to apply for all our grants and awards, nominate yourself for an award or apply for a grant. Its
easy to do. All grants and awards forms and informaon is in this newsleer and on our website at
www.cct.org.
I have again enjoyed my year as co-president. We have been busy, but producve and always knew the
board had our back. They were there with encouragement, help and a lively sense of humor (which I love!).
No one knows how much work goes into a successful year with CCFLT like a dedicated board member. They
truly worked relessly, and I am very thankful for each one of them.
I wish you much connued success as we head toward the end of another school year. I also wish you a
resul and rejuvenang summer.
Debbie Cody
Co-President
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It seems like when we nally gure out the latest and greatest movement in
educaon and/or language teaching and are feeling condent about the direc-
on our teaching is heading, something new comes out and throws a wrench in
our newly found comfort.
Times are changing for all teachers. Even though we are already in the second
decade of the 21st
century, we are sll struggling to gure out how to incorporate acvies that will give our
students the skills needed for a successful future. Just when we had ACTFLs ve Cs down, there are a bunch
more Cs that we need to incorporate that go along with the 21st
century skills our students need in order to
become globally competent.
Now that we have a handle on the three modes of communicaon and performance-based assessment and
feel like we are doing a good job at preparing our students to use the languages we teach them, we now need
to worry about how to incorporate the Common Core Standards, too.
And speaking of assessment, we are also charged with understanding the new teacher evaluaon system that
has been put into place with S.B. 191. A successful evaluaon of our teaching is directly related to us proving
student growth in our classroom and schools
With all these new iniaves, it can somemes feel a lile overwhelming. We have been talking about how we,
CCFLT, can help our members learn more about these iniaves and feel more condent about the changes
that are upon us. In order to beer serve you, we need feedback from as many members as possible regarding
what kind of training would be most useful. Please, take a few minutes to complete a quick survey at hp://
nyurl.com/CCFLTsurveyabout possible trainings we can provide for you throughout the year. Forward it to
your colleagues. The more feedback we can get about what your training interests are, the more we can work
toward meeng them!
Crisn Bleess
CCFLT President-Elect
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Thank you for your hard work, commitment, and dedication to CCFLT.
THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME AND EFFORT.
Thank you for the support, collaboration, and just plain fun!
Sincerely,
Debbie Cody and Anna Crocker
CCFLT Co-Presidents
To the CCFLT 2012-2013 Board of Directors:
Fawzia Ahmad Elisabea KaufmannCourtney Fell Lisa Bloomer
Diana Noonan Grace KodaStefan Betley Kristen BoehmAmy Flynn Becky LousMichael Verderaime Greg Breitbarth
Crisn Bleess Kae Lorimer
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It was quite an honor to receive the Genevieve Overman Service Award at the CCFLT Awards Luncheon. I must
confess I was so overcome with emoons, I dont exactly recall what I said
when I was giving my thanks. Maybe the following will be a lile clearer.
I would like to thank Mary Vogl who sent such a wonderful nominaon leer,
and thank, as well, my colleagues in the French Department at Colorado State
University, and Joe Harris, my long me supervisor in the Poudre School Dis-trict. The leers they wrote made me wonder if I was really the person about
whom they were talking, and my thoughts were that, if a much more deserv-
ing and accomplished nominee than I would get this award, their leers were
my prize! It is such a joy and honor to work with colleagues and supervisors
who appreciate your eorts, do not hinder your growth, support you, and who
are themselves so deserving of praise!
CCFLT has a dear spot in my heart! I was introduced to this ne organizaon in 1976, my rst year of teaching,
and I have grown as a beer and more ecient teacher because of all the creave ideas I gathered from out-
standing teachers, at every conference throughout the years-
ideas I then applied or adapted to my classes.
Yearly Fall Conferences and Spring Conferences demand tremendous organizaon and seless work, and we do
commend all the Board Members for their reless dedicaon in pung together conferences with valuable
learning and teaching resources with the like of local, state, regional, and naonal presenters. Our students ap-
preciate all these eorts as well; these conferences rejuvenate us, give us more stamina in trying new ideas, re-
arm and reinforce the reason why we are in this line of work, which is to open their eyes and their heart to the
world, and making them Cizens of the World.
Thank you so very much to everyone for this very special award!!! May you all have as many wonderful years in
this rewarding profession as I have had so far!
Marie-Jo Hofmann
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So, what does it mean to learn a language? When
students enroll in language classes across America,
what should they learn? What does a good lan-
guage teacher teach? As a high school student I
remember how dry and boring my language clas-
ses were. There were lists of vocabulary words,
verb ending charts, and we rarely if ever
read. Culture was never mentioned,
and if it was, it was almost always aboutthe life and customs of Spain. I am from
Puerto Rico and it was dificult for me to
relate to what was taught in class, even
when it was about my irst language.
This was the mid 1970s. Things have
changed a lot since then.
When I became a language teacher 23
years ago, I spoke to my students about
my life growing up in Puerto Rico. For Christmas, I
was unaware that Santa came down a chimney
there are no chimneys on an island! We celebrated
Los 3 Reyes Magos, we left food and water for the
camels, and in the morning we would ind presents
in their place under our beds. When my American
friends came to my house I was confused when
they asked why my mother and I were always
ighting. I later found that they interpreted our ex-
pressive use of hands and loud voices as yellingand anger. We also ate rice and beans every night
and it was not boring How many different types
of beans can there be? My students laugh and en-
joy hearing my anecdotes and I insure to wrap the
district curriculum into everything that I love
about culture. I want my students to be able to use
what they were learning in my class, I want it to be
real, palpable, not memorized and systematic. I
decided that since I learned English by immersion
that my students would learn more if I used the
target language almost
exclusively at each level.
What I discovered is that
while students feel that
my classes are hard
and rigorous, they ap-
preciate how much they
learn, that my classes
are fun and interesting,
and when they have
traveled to Spanish
speaking countries they understand, read and even
speak with the local folk! They become excited
and I become excited!
Some 20 years after my teaching began it is only
recently that we are feeling accepted into the hall
of fame of core subjects. Our students are seeing
the results and are feeling competent and inspired
to continue learning culture and language. It has
taken a long time, but we have inally arrived and I
am proud that I get to participate and advocate in
this adventure. We have only just begun.
Norma E. Arroyo
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Do you know a teacher who
is an excellent teacher of world language?
is a leader in the teaching profession?
advocates for world languages?
is involved in the advancement of language learning?
shares best pracces with others?
If these qualies represent you or a colleague you know, please apply for or nomi-nate someone for the Teacher of the Year. An applicaon can be found on the Con-
tests/Grants/Scholarships tab at www.cct.org
Applicaons are due May 1, 2013.
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UNC has been the proud sponsor of World Language Day for over 40 years. The contin-ued goal is to provide high school students with a unique opportunity to experience world
languages and cultures beyond a classroom setting in a fun and educational environment.
Please browse the World Languages Day Websitefor information on this event.
We look forward to another exciting event in 2013!
Registration begins the week of January 14, 2013.
Mark your calendars, UNC World Language Day, Wednesday, April 17, 2013!!
For general information please email the faculty director, Melitta Wagner-Heaston
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2013 COLORADO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER OF THE YEAR APPLICATION FORM
General Informaon/Signatures
Nominee Name___________________________________________________________
Home Address____________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________( )________________
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone
Date of Birth___________/________/_______
Electronic mail Address(es)_____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
School Name________________________________________________________________
School Address_______________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________( )_________________
City State Zip Code Telephone
Language(s) Teaching___________________________________Levels_________________
I hereby give my permission that any or all of the aached materials (other than home address, telephone and DOB) may be shared with
persons interested in promong the Colorado Teacher of the Year Program. I also acknowledge that if selected as the 2013 Colorado Teacher
of the Year, I will be released from classroom responsibilies during the year of my recognion as needed in order to fulll the obligaons
inherent in the honor.
School/Building Principal
Name_______________________________________________Title____________________
School Name_________________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________( )________________
City State Zip Code Telephone
I acknowledge that the nominee submits this applicaon with my approval. If the nominee is selected as the 2013 Colorado Teacher of the
Year, he or she will be released from classroom responsibilies during the year of recognion as needed.
Signature of School Principal___________________________________________Date_______________
Total Years of Teaching Experience______________ Years in Present Posion____________
Signature of Candidate_______________________________________Date_____________
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Required Documents to be submied with the applicaon for TOY:
Applicaon form
A current curriculum vitae that contains an account of the candidates teaching experience; professionally relevant service to com-
munity and profession (e.g. language-related extracurricular acvies and programs, posts held in professional organiza-
on); any post graduate educaon; workshops or other professional developmental acvity; and other informaon con-sidered relevant.
Three leers that support the nominaon, one from each of the following groups: students or parents, faculty colleagues, and
school administrators. Referees should specify how long they have known the candidate and in what capacity. Support
leers may be sent with the applicaon, or referees may send leers individually.
A 500-word statement in rst person on the value of learning language and culture.
A 20 minute video (DVD) of classroom instrucon.
Via a briefdossier, any other material should be submied relevant to candidacy. For example, the dossier might include descrip-
ons of programs the candidate has developed, newspaper coverage of sponsored events, cercates indicang parci-
paon in professional and developmental acvies and other evidence of professional accomplishments.
For CCFLT Board Use only:
_________ Nominaon received? Date___________________
_________ Leer sent to nominee? Date__________________
_________ Is the nominees dossier/le complete? Date__________________________
__________ CV
__________ Student Leer of Recommendaon
__________ Administrator Leer of Recommendaon
__________
Faculty Colleague Leer of Recommendaon
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the CCFLT Grants
Scholarships and Awards
Photo of the award winners taken at the
Awards Luncheon
Friday February 22nd
2013
Janine Erickson
Accepng on Behalf of State Senator Patrick
Steadman Winner of the CCFLT Friend of
Foreign Languages Award
Toni Theissen and Kendra Omlid
Kendra is the Winner of the CCFLT
Kris Wells Memorial Creavity Award Kelley Parkhurst and Molly Sederberg
Molly is the Winner of the CCFLT
New Educator Award
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New Teacher Scholarship for the 2013 Spring Conference
Mahew Webster, Mountain Ridge Middle School, Colorado Springs
Kris Wells Memorial Creavity Award
Kendra Omlid, Loveland High School, Loveland
Genevieve Overman Memorial Service Award
Marie-Jo Hofmann, Colorado State University, Colorado Springs
New Educator Award
Molly Sederberg, Thompson Valley High School, Loveland
Colorado Teacher of the Year
Norma Arroyo, Fossil Ridge High School, Fort Collins
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Are you interested in serving on the CCFLT Board of Directors?
Do you know a colleague who might be? Serving on the Board provides greatopportunities for networking, collegiality, giving back to your profession, and
most of all, FUN. To express your interest in running in the next election, to
nominate a colleague, or to get more information, please contact:
Grace Koda: ([email protected] )
I look forward to hearing from you.
Why Serve on the CCFLT Board?
The Board of Directors posions, which last for two academic years, give members the opportunity to:
Pracce Communicaon skills in at least two languages
Promote Connecons at state, regional, and naons levels
Make Friendships all over the state
Gain Leadership and professional growth opportunies
Share Teaching ps, experiences and concerns
The responsibilies include:
Serve for two academic years (beginning the May aer you are elected)
Aend monthly meengs from August to May
Aend fall retreat in August (2 days, 1 overnight)
Work at the Spring Conference
Serve on a minimum of two commiees; one Standing and one Spring Conference commiee
Chair a commiee in your second year
Reimbursements and benets include:
Up to twelve hours CDE recercaon credit
All phone calls
Mileage at 25 cents per mile
Spring Conference registraon and two luncheon meals
Fall Conference registraon
Cercates for volunteer hours
Easy to nominate yourself
Build statewide networking connecons
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Diana Noonan
President-Elect
Kathleen Bizarro
Post-
Secondary
Representave
Heather Wien
Elementary/Secondary
Representave
Deborah Ormsby
Elementary/Secondary
Representave
Jenny Beltman
Elementary/Secondary
Representave
Kristy Swartwood
Elementary/Secondary
Representave
Jian Lin
At-Large Representave
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The Colorado Congress of Foreign Language
Teachers and the world languages teachers of
Colorado fully support and are highly involved in
the Colorado Department of Educaon inia-
ves, including the Colorado World Language
Academic Standards, the Assessment Resource
Banks, and the Sample Curriculum Units project,
even though we do not have a World LanguagesSpecialist at CDE.
The U.S. State Department has idened learn-
ing a second, third and even a fourth language as crical for our naonal security.
Students acquire language skills more easily at an early age and have the opportunity to become uent
(advanced prociency) in a K-16 program.
The Colorado colleges and universies have recommended that high school students complete two
years of the same language for college entrance and readiness.
The knowledge of Foreign Languages is included in the top ve skills cited as very important by em-
ployers for high school graduates.
That the state establishes and funds a World Language Specialist posion for the Colorado Department
of Educaon.
That funding be provided for schools across Colorado to begin and maintain second language study K-
16.
That two years of the same world language be a Colorado high school graduaon requirement or test
via a Standards-based measurement of prociency at a minimum prociency of Novice-High on the
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) rang scale.
Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers
Presentaon to the Joint House and Senate Educaon Commiee
February 27, 2013
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Students should be provided the opportunity to learn a second language as early as possible inschool. Young learners have an edge in developing bilingual skills An early language learning experience
helps to develop nave-like pronunciaon
promotes higher levels of prociency if the student connues in a well-arculated sequence of lan-
guage learning.
Addional benets include:
strengthening of literacy in students rst lan-
guage
raising standardized test scores in other
subject areas
developing comfort with cultural dier-
ences.
These benets accrue with instrucon that is:
connuous throughout the school year
connected grade to grade
more frequent than twice per week, adding up to at least 90 minutes per week, at both the elemen-
tary and middle school levels.
In recent years Immersion schools and Dual Immersion programs have been opening in Denver, around
the state and naon. Content-based foreign language instrucon in these programs uses foreign lan-
guages as the vehicle for teaching subject content. I became involved in one such school, the Denver Lan-
guage School (DLS), a K-8 charter in District 31. We teach the core content in a Mandarin Chinese pro-
gram and Spanish program.
Contd...
CCFLT recognizes that todays
students will mature into a world
that is more diverse and
interconnected than at any time
in our history.
Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers
Presentaon to the Joint House and Senate Educaon Commiee
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In my position at DLS I experienced irsthand proof of research showing that:
young children immersed in a second language acquire reading, writing and speaking proicien-
cy as if it were their native tongue.
with their brains still developing, younger children are more able to think in the second lan-
guage, rather than just through translation.
brain development is enhanced because students in an immersion program utilize greater men-
tal capacities when learning subject content in a new language, when that new language is not
the commonly spoken language of the local environment.
CCFLT recognizes that todays students will mature into a world that is more diverse and
interconnected than at any time in our history. They deserve the opportunity to further their men-
tal, emotional and civic development with the additional beneits available through learning more
than one language and their associated cultures. By combining those approaches, Colorado Foreign
Language teachers will produce students who meet and exceed state and local district standards
and the performance of their non-second language peers.
Your colleague Sen. Pat Steadman our 2013 Friend of
Foreign Languages had this to say:
"I see so much value beyond what we typically say
about the pride and pleasure of knowing
another language. For children, there is the par-
ticular beneit of stretching their cognitive
abilities. Foreign language study increases the
overall capacity to learn and enhances all otheracademic skills. We really need to value and recog-
nize that foreign language is best taught at the elemen-
tary school level. There is no question that early exposure and instruction should happen during
the point in time when childrens brains are quite literally wired to learn.
If it's true that everything we need to know we learn in kindergarten, then that is when we must
start teaching world languages and cultures to our children. It's crucial for delivering the best possi-
ble education to our students.
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When policy makers and educaon leaders talk aboutSTEM, we expect to establish a shared understandingthat this must also include the study of languages and
cultures so that our future leaders are prepared to fully parcipate in
our connected, global society and economy.
According to the Commiee for Economic Development (CED), To
confront the twenty-rst century challenges to our economy and na-
onal security, our educaon system must be strengthened to in-
crease the foreign language skills and cultural awareness of our stu-
dents. Americas connued global leadership will depend on our stu-
dents abilies to interact with the world community both inside and
outside our borders.
Our future leaders will be bilingual and
bicultural. When confronted with data
showing that fewer than 20% of stu-
dents are enrolled in World Lan-
guages classes, it is imperave that
our schools ensure students have
access to world language educaon.
Learning important content through the
lens of a dierent language develops crical
thinking and analycal skills, the literacy of the Common Core State
Standards.
On a naonal level, the American Council on the Teaching of ForeignLanguages (ACTFL) has collaborated with The Partnership for 21st
Century Skills (P21) to develop a 21st Century Skills Map.
First and foremost on our Skills map is Communicaon. Language
students are learning to COMMUNICATE by arculang thoughts and
ideas eecvely using oral, wrien and nonverbal communicaon
skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
We also focus on COLLABORATION. Students as collaborators use
their nave and acquired languages to learn from and work coopera-
vely across cultures with global team members, sharing responsibil-
ity and making necessary compromises while working toward a com-mon goal. Students are able to arculate thoughts and ideas clearly
and eecvely through speaking and wring while demonstrang the
ability to work eecvely with diverse teams and to assume shared
responsibility for collaborave work.
In addion, World Language classes stress CRITICAL THINKING AND
PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS. Our students are inquirers who frame,
analyze, and synthesize informaon as well as negoate meaning
across language and culture in order to explore problems and issues
from their own and dierent perspecves. They are taught to make
complex choices and decisions and understand the interconnecons
among systems.
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION is also an area of focus. Our students
are creators and innovators who respond to new and diverse perspec
ves. They use language in imaginave and original ways. They are
open and responsive to new and diverse perspecves and become
procient in acng on creave ideas to make a tangible and useful
contribuon to the domain in which the innovaon occurs.
Our 21st Century Skills Map also addresses Social and Cross-Curricula
Skills. World Language classes insll the im-
portant skills of INFORMATION LITERACY,
MEDIA LITERACY and TECHNOLOGY LITER
ACY. Students pracce making presenta
ons using 21st Century technologies.
Our units go beyond the study of lan-
guage. It is common for students to en-
gage in target language invesgaon of
environmental and polical issues, immigra-
on, health and history. These units require students to interpret
graphs and synthesize data. Throughout, students learn to dene,
priorize and complete tasks without direct oversight with our ul-
mate goal being to inspire creave and empathec life-long learners
It is our rm belief that these are inherent in STEM skills and priorie
and that World Languages therefore need to be included in STEM
planning and funding. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ar
vital priories but it is perilous to consider them exclusively in an Eng
lish-language centric scope. This point is perhaps best illustrated by
Nelson Mandela, who said, If you talk to a man in a language he un-
derstands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language tha
goes to his heart.
These eorts are aordable, non-parsan, and cost-saving in the lon
run as it is far cheaper for our bilingual and bicultural leaders to makefriends around the world than it is for them to ght our enemies.
Noah Geisel
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We
desperately need legislave support of comprehen-
sive K-16 foreign language study and its necessity for a globally competent
and compeve work force here in Colorado.
The Naonal Research Council says lack of knowledge about foreign lan-
guages and cultures threatens the security of the US and its ability to com-
pete in the global marketplace. "In order to thrive in a global economy
America needs to prepare our children with skills and knowledge neces-
sary to compete and succeed."
Almost any job can benet from knowing another language. More andmore of Colorado's populaon speaks languages other than English, and
jobs in social services, business, communicaons, and the government all
use people with language skills. Language skills set you apart from other
workers, making you a beer candidate for hiring, promoon and work on
new projects.
Beyond that, there are a huge number of jobs that
absolutely require that you speak a second language.
These include working in the Foreign Service, serving
as a translator and/or interpreter for the Government
or the private sector, working at internaonal instu-
ons, teaching foreign languages, literatures, and
cultures in schools or universies and working for
transnaonal business corporaons.
For the rst me in almost 20 years, there are likely to
be more full-me jobs in 2012 2013 for foreign language educators than
for people with PhDs in English, according to the Modern Language Asso-
ciaon (MLA).
The update projects that the number of academic jobs in foreign lan-
guages in 2012 2013 will rise going up 10.5% from the previous year. In
English the number of posions is expected to drop 3.6%. Posions in
English have leveled o aer two years of increases, according to the
update, while foreign language posionswhich had also increased in
the previous two yearsare sll growing.
In Utah, one third of the workforce is already bilingual. As the economy
becomes increasingly global, Wyoming educators know their kids will
need to speak another language if they want to compete, even with their
neighboring states.
Mark Mathern, associate superintendent of the Natrona County School
District in Wyoming stated, "I think for states that want to be globally
compeve, this is going to be an extremely important strategy that will
help states move that way."
This is what our neighbors are up to--what about Colorado?
The Colorado Oce of Economic Development and Internaonal Trade in
its Internaonal Division creates and retains jobs in the state by helping
Colorado companies to expand and diversify their markets globally and b
helping companies from abroad to learn the value of doing business here
Their report from February 8, 2013 states: Canada retains its posion as
Colorados top export market, reaching $1.9 billion, up 29.5% over 2011.
Canada's ocial languages?
French and English. Mexico
retains its posion as Colora
dos second largest export
market with $847 million in
exports in 2012, up 12% ove
2011. Mexico's ocial lan-
guage? Spanish. MainlandChina remained third with
$676 million in exports, a 6%
increase. Ocial language?
Chinese. Japan remained
fourth with $427 million in
exports, followed by Germany, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea
and Switzerland. I think you get the idea!
Just a quick Google search of "Foreign Language jobs available in Colora-
do" nds dozens of sites. One site--Language Jobs USA--lists over 500 job
posngs in Colorado dang from February 18, 2013 to present, seeking
people with foreign language skills.
It becomes more and more obvious that for Colorado to compete with
other states and maintain a healthy role in the global economy, we must
support learning languages for uency throughout the K-16 connuum.
Debbie Cody
..there are a huge number of
jobs that absolutely require that
you speak a second language.
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Our U.S. State department has idened foreign lan-
guage study as crical for our naonal security; colleges
and universies require two years of study of the same for-
eign language for entrance; employers have indicated that
knowledge of a foreign language is very important for work-
force readiness---all valid reasons for having a two-year
high school foreign language graduaon requirement. Ac-
cording to the CIA World Fact book, only 5.6 percent of the
world's populaon speaks English as a primary language.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who don't know
English, making the ability to speak and write a dierentlanguage a valuable commodity in many
careers. However, there are also
cognive reasons for requiring
foreign language study in high
school.
To increase global understand-
ing: As globalizaon and mobility
and communicaons bring the world
ever closer together, there is a pressing need for global ci-
zens to be competent in other languages. The United States
is the only industrialized country that rounely graduates
students from high school who lack any knowledge of a for-
eign language. Whereas 52.7% of Europeans are uent in
both their nave tongue and at least one other language,
only 9.3% of Americans are uent in both their nave
tongue and another language. This stasc does not bode
well for the future of America in a global society.
To increase nave language ability: Foreign language
learners have stronger vocabulary skills in English, a beer
understanding of the language, and improved literacy in
general. Moreover, higher reading achievement in the na-
ve language as well as enhanced listening skills and
memory have been shown to correlate with extended for-
eign language study. With each addional year of foreign
language instrucon taken, a student's scores on college
and graduate school entrance exams such as the SATs,
ACTs, GREs, MCATs, and LSATs improve incrementally.
To sharpen cognive and life skills: Children who have
studied a language at the elementary level score higher on
tests in reading, language arts, and math. People who have
learned foreign languages show greater cognive develop-
ment in areas such as mental exibility, creavity, and high-
er order thinking skills, such as problem-solving, conceptu-
alizing, and reasoning.
In addion to cognive bene-
ts,language learners learn
to deal with unfamiliar cul-
tural ideas, eecvely han-
dle new situaons and have
tolerance of diverse lifestyles
and customs. It also improves
the learner's ability to understand
and communicate with people from dierent walks of life.
To increase understanding of oneself and ones own cul-
ture: Contact with other languages and cultures gives you
the unique opportunity to step outside your familiar scope
of existence and view your culture's customs, tradions,
and norms as well as your own value system through the
eyes of others. Conversely, a monolingual, monocultural
view of the world severely limits your perspecve. Intercul-
tural experiences have a monumental inuence on shapingyour identy, heightening your self-awareness, and giving
you a full appreciaon of your life situaon. These things
can happen only with knowledge of cultures and languages
other than your own.
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At the Spring Conference I presented on Screen-casng in The Language Classroom. I shocked the group
with the following statement, Do not incorporate technology if you do not have the content or pedagogy to go
with the new technology! Prey crazy for a technology guy at a technology conference to say wait on the tech
nology. I explained to the class it was all about the new thing I had learned about called Technological Pedagog
cal Content Knowledge (TPACK).
The value a school places on technology can be viewed imany dierent ways. Among the ways we see the value
is to we assess technology needs. One way you or you
school can assess needs is to administer a TPACK survey
(Just do an Internet search for TPACK survey.) According
to Mishra, Koehler, and Kereluik (2009), The TPACK
framework emphasizes the role of teachers as decision
makers who design their own educaonal technology
environments as needed. By administering a TPACK su
vey to the sta, schools show they value technology and
also that they value teachers individually working to inte
grate technology into instrucon and management. As worked on my TPACK survey, I saw places where I can
improve my teaching and consequently improve my stu-
dents learning.
Incorporang technology is not about the latest and
coolest toy. Somemes you have to make sure you are
ready to use it. It has been a pleasure wring these tech
nology arcles for the newsleer this year. I will miss
serving on the CCFLT Board.
Mishra, P., Koehler, M., & Kereluik, K. (2009). The song remains the same: Looking back
through the future of educaonal technology. TechTrends,53(5), 48.
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ACTFL Edwin Cudecki Award for Support for Language Educaon
ACTFL-MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertaon Research in Foreign Language Edu-
caon
ACTFL Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instrucon Using Technology with IALLT (K-12)
ACTFL/Cengage Learning Faculty Development Programs Award for Excellence in Foreign Language In-
strucon Using Technology with IALLT (Postsecondary)
ACTFL-NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Educaon
ACTFL-MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Educaon
ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Educaon (K-12)
ACTFL Wilga Rivers Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Educaon (Postsecondary)
ACTFL Melba D. Woodru Award for Exemplary Elementary Foreign Language Program
ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture
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SWCOLTis seeking nominaons for
Second Language Educaon Awards and Language Study Scholarships
The nominaon deadline for awards was January 15, 2013
The applicaon deadline for scholarships is December 31, 2013
Awards
- Excellence in Teaching
- Honorary Lifeme Member
- Friend of the Profession
Scholarships
- SWCOLT 2013 ScholarshipsSWCOLT Scholarship
- Teacher of the Year*
The current SWCOLT TOY is Colorados own Noah Geisel!
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