Be bilingual!

Download and share this fun poster with your students and colleagues to show how learning a second (or third) language can make you smarter.
Classroom posters: 5 ways Being Bilingual makes you smarter


November 11th Meeting- location: Michele Maxson's room Middle School off of the square
Agenda

• Brigitte- share
• Atlas in the real world (skills)
• Wrting exemplars- examples of student writing (BRING FOR EACH COURSE) What does writing look like at different stages of the language aquisition continuum?
• List of US candidates for Governor's School (bring names for Spanish, Latin, French): Criterion

* Thanks to those that have begun to submit your syllabus/course description and final exams for your courses- please don't forget to include a placement exam for your language.  I will accept the submissions both online and in paper format (just leave in my mailbox or on my desk in the language office.)

Projects 2015

I am beginning to compile a list of your projects (just new ideas you are working on)  for this year and am excited to see so many wonderful ideas. Please submit your idea to me either by Google Drive in the shared format or through email.  I will begin to set up appointments with you to see you and your projects at work in the classroom. 

I am happy to see that many teachers want to participate reaching out to a Lower or Middle School class.  I would love to see all languages represented! The activity need not be labor intensive, it can be as simple as reading a story, playing multiplication bingo, sharing a snack.  Look at a few ideas on these wikis below:

Helena Curtain

Wendy Brownell

Global Learning with Food

Building Bridges

Multi-lingual Magazine

Phoebus, Potomac's literary magazine, is officially accepting submissions. The magazine is going to be run online, so we will be taking submissions from a wide range of art styles; feel free to submit short stories, essays, visual art, photography, audio clippings, videos, or anything else you can think of. Just email phoebuslitmag@gmail.com with any submissions or questions.

We are hope to make Phoebus more interactive with the student body this year, and hope to be able to collaborate and discuss with other students on their writing and artwork. We also aim to have various get-togethers and activities with other interested students, so look out for more updates!

Upper School cell phone policy:

Please remember, Students are allowed to use cell phones during common free breaks and during lunch. They should not have them out in class unless the teachers ask them to take them out.

Changing Course Level – Grading Implications 

Becca clarifies some questions we may be having with this process... if you wonder, check out the link here

International Education Week: November 16-20, 2015

The 16th annual International Education Week (IEW) is November 16–20, 2015. This year's theme is "International Education: Advancing Access for All." Many activities—both virtual and in-person—are being planned around the country and the world.    Iniciatives

*Thanks to Ingrid and Sarah for updating us in their teaching from Middlebury interactive.  Could we see using this platform in other ways?   Have you taken a look at the demo?  Comment pros and cons.

Susan Lafky  
Susan Lafky, Middlebury Interactive’s lead German teacher, has been teaching world languages for parts of four decades, mostly in the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. At Fairfax, she also served as the Chair of the Foreign Language Department. Susan joined Middlebury Interactive full-time three years ago after health reasons made it impossible for her to continue at her classroom position. In our blog, she shares her thoughts on digital education, her students and the differences between teaching in the digital and brick-and-mortar classrooms.
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