Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos! Bienvenue!
Willkommen! Benvenuti!
______________________________________________________

| Newsflash |

AATSP Awards
The AATSP would like to remind its members that the deadline for
AATSP Award nominations is Monday, May 19th, 2008.
Application & nomination information for all AATSP Awards
available on the AATSP website.For more details and application
information please click here.

StarTalk Institute: Mentoring andLeadership for K-12 Chinese Teachers
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, Iowa State University
Saturday June 20 – Monday June 30, 2008
The major goal of this institute is to equip and empower
Chinese K-12 teachers to assume expanding leadership roles in their
districts and states as a first step toward building a cadre of leaders who can
exert influence at the regionaland national levels.
Click here for flyer with additional information or here to download application.

Longtime Educator’s Career Honored at State Language Conference
The Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers
honored Joanna Breedlove Crane at a luncheon at the Embassy
Suites in Montgomery on Saturday, February 2, 2008.  
Please click here for pictures and to read more.

 

______________________________________________________

| Why join AAFLT? |

• Membership in your professional organization meets the requirements of competency 7.1 in the Alabama PEPE
  
  
• Offering workshops or sessions at the annual conference meets the requirements of competency 7.2 in the Alabama PEPE
  
  
• Professional development hours earned through conference attendance helps to fulfill the hours needed for recertification
  
  
• Professional development hours through extended AAFLT SPONSORED IMMERSION SEMINARS CAN LEAD TO “highly qualified” status
  
  
• AAFLT works on the local, regional and national level to advocate the teaching of foreign language
  
  
• AAFLT offers leadership opportunities in the profession
  
  
• AAFLT recognizes dedicated teachers through its awards program
  
  
• AAFLT disseminates information on scholarship and study abroad opportunities
  
  
• AAFLT facilitates communication among all the stakeholders in education – educators, parents, administrators and policy makers
  
  
• AAFLT membership dues fund the operating expenses of the organization that tirelessly promotes study of study of foreign language

Click here to join.

  _____________________________________________________
Linda Paragone, M.A.
Executive Director
1209 Chesterfield Road
Huntsville, Alabama 35803
______________________________________________________

This page is generously hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
This page is not a publication of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It has not been edited or examined for content by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author(s) of the page are solely responsible for the content.