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Title: Professional Development Seminar for Teachers of Russian
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American Councils for International Education, ACTR/ACCELS will offer a weekend seminar, October 24-25th, 2015, in Washington, DC for teachers of Russian who are interested in the Prototype AP® Russian Exam and The College Board-American Councils National Examinations in World Languages (NEWL) Series: Russian. These standards and proficiency-based assessments reflect the best practices in language assessment. During the two-day seminar, participants will gain an understanding of the core design and content of the proficiency-based Prototype AP® Russian Exam and the NEWL: Russian Exam, as they relate to course curriculum, exam content, online administration and scoring. Special attention will be made to incorporate local conditions into the design and planning of proficiency-based curriculum, as teachers gain an understanding of and experience with the four sections of the exam. Upon completion of the seminar, participants will receive a certificate of participation and of qualification to administer the Prototype AP® Russian Program and Examination and The College Board-American Councils National Examinations in World Languages (NEWL) Series: Russian at their home schools.
Join a community of high school Russian teachers and make further connections as you share your classroom culture, communicate across many topics, and compare best practices, creative ideas, innovative techniques and practical solutions.
Where: Washington, D.C.
When: October 24-25, 2015
Registration: $250
Travel and accommodations are participants’ responsibility.
Application Deadline: October 7, 2015
Contact: Holly Gerrity (PrototypeAP@americancouncils.org)
Gerry, H. [SEELANGS] Professional Development Seminar for Teachers of Russian. SEELANGS listserv (SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, 18 Sep 2015).
Source: SEELANGS
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Title: Discovering German Roots in Georgia
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From http://georgia.aatg.org/germanroots/welcome.html
Discovering German Roots in Georgia is a website designed to shed light on the Salzburger, the first German-speaking settlers in the colony of Georgia, who established a fairly prosperous community in New Ebenezer — a settlement lying roughly 35 miles northwest of Savannah.
The Salzburger project consists of a three-day (or four-day) teaching unit that relies fairly heavily on web-based exercises that are housed on a webpage, a wiki, and a couple of webquests. Ancillary materials include three PowerPoint presentations and two QuickTime movies.
This project is being conducted by the Georgia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, with the approval and financial support of the national organization.
The project is still being developed; explore existing resources at http://georgia.aatg.org/germanroots/welcome.html
Source: AATG-Georgia
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Title: German Higher Education Virtual Fair
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From https://www.ubivent.com/registration/germanhighereducationfair#ueberschrift
2nd German Higher Education Virtual Fair
USA and Canada 2015
October 9
Put Germany on your resume!
Career-building academic programs. Dynamic and innovative research projects and teams. Generous funding opportunities.
Learn more at the 2nd German Higher Education Virtual Fair and meet representatives of German universities offering a wide variety of high-quality Bachelor- Master-, Phd- and short term programs. You don’t even need to speak German! Oh, and you can find out about scholarships and grants, too!
15 universities will participate, from full research universities (Universitäten) to more practice-oriented universities (Fachhochschulen). The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will also be on hand to answer questions about funding your experience in Germany.
During the virtual fair you can visit the booths and have a personal chat with their representatives, attend information sessions, and watch information videos.
Learn more and register at https://www.ubivent.com/registration/germanhighereducationfair#ueberschrift
Source: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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Title: National German Week
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From http://www.aatg.org/news/249700/Get-Ready-to-Celebrate-National-German-Week-.htm
National German Week, October 5 to October 11, provides a great opportunity for recognizing the many contributions of Germans to the modern world and a chance to highlight the great German programs in public and private schools across the country.
October 6 is German-American Day, commemorating the arrival of thirteen German families to Philadelphia in 1683. These families founded Germantown, PA, the first German settlement in the original thirteen American colonies. In 1983, October 6 was proclaimed German-American Day in celebration of the 300th anniversary of German immigration to the US.
Find resources to celebrate National German Week and German-American Day at http://www.aatg.org/news/249700/Get-Ready-to-Celebrate-National-German-Week-.htm
Source: AATG
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Title: 25 Years of German Unity
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From www.germany.info
On October 3, 1990, East Germany and West Germany reunited to form a single nation. Here is a collection of English-language article dealing with reunification: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/02__GIC/GIC/05/09-GermanUnity25/00-GermanUnity25.html
Source: Germany.info
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Title: Cambridge Schools Classics Project
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From http://www.cambridgescp.com/Upage.php?p=misc^about_cscp^intro
The Cambridge Schools Classics Project is a research and development project established in 1966 with funding from the Nuffield Foundation and the Schools Council. The website is aimed at students and teachers of classical languages in the UK, but it is full of useful resources for teachers anywhere.
These resources include support for the Cambridge Latin Course, a free myths and storytelling section, free resources for learning ancient Greek, and resources for learning about classical civilization.
Explore the available resources at http://www.cambridgescp.com/main_entrance.php
Source: University of Cambridge
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Title: #LoveSpanish Scholarship Competition
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In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, SpanishDict.com is offering its $15,000 scholarship opportunity to all students 13 years or older. Students simply write a Tweet or Facebook post sharing why they #LoveSpanish.
Deadline to participate is October 30.
For information on how to apply, go to www.spanishdict.com/scholarship
JNCL-NCLIS NewsBrief (24 Sep 2015).
Source: JNCL-NCLIS
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Title: Library of Congress Launches Online Hispanic Literature Recordings
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, The Library of Congress launched an online selection of recordings from its "Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape," a series of over 700 audio recordings from renowned poets and prose writers in their native languages. 32 different countries are represented in the 50 new digitized recordings that were previously only available on site at the library.
"I am so excited that the entire world will be able to hear some of these wonderful writers, such as Gabriel García Márquez and Octavio Paz, that we recorded for the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape," said in a statement Georgette Dorn, chief of the Library's Hispanic Division and curator of the archive. "Hearing the voice of a writer -brings him or her alive."
Listen to the recordings on the Library of Congress’s website: http://www.loc.gov/collections/archive-of-hispanic-literature-on-tape/about-this-collection/
Source: NBC News
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Title: New Colorín Colorado Website
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Colorín Colorado is a national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. The website has just been redesigned. The new site features the same outstanding, research-based bilingual content presented in a new, user-friendly design, along with new ELL resources.
Explore the new website at http://www.colorincolorado.org/ or take a video tour here: http://www.colorincolorado.org/welcome#video
Source: T.ELL.E-GRAM
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Title: 15 Academic Vocabulary Resources
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Elena Shvidko introduces 15 different resources that students and teachers can use to improve their academic vocabulary in this blog post: http://blog.tesol.org/15-academic-vocabulary-resources/
Source: TESOL
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