Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey




FLENJ News

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2011 FLENJ Spring Conference

posted Tuesday, August 03, 2010 | Filed under: News 

Mark your calendars now. The 2011 FLENJ Spring Conference is set for March 18-19, 2011, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Somerset, NJ.

This year’s Keynote Speaker will be Cindy Kendall and her talk will be:

Teaching and Learning in a Connected World


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FLENJ at the 2010 NJEA Convention

posted Tuesday, August 03, 2010 | Filed under: News 

Thursday, Nov 4, 2010 – Friday, Nov 5, 2010

Location: Atlantic City Convention Center
Keynote – Dr. Cherice Montgomery
“Creativity by Design”
Workshops are free of charge for NJEA members.


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Successful 21st-Century World Language Education Workshop

posted Monday, May 17, 2010 | Filed under: News 

Energize your world language classes with Dr. Joan G. Jensen, a French teacher in the School District of the Chathams. Jensen will guide this world language professional learning community through the best practices to motivate and engage all students toward higher levels of language acquisition and achievement, so that all students can demonstrate proficiency in language and culture in the real world of the 21st century.


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Professional Development Opportunity for Chinese Language Teachers

posted Wednesday, May 05, 2010 | Filed under: News 

Will be offered at the University of Colorado this summer. The Middle Kingdom in Middle School: A STARTALK Program on Pedagogy and Practices for Building an Integrated Chinese Language – Culture Course of Study


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STARTALK: Mentoring, Leadership, and Change in the K-12 Chinese Classroom Institute

posted Tuesday, April 06, 2010 | Filed under: News 

The National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at Iowa State University (ISU) invites you to encourage practicing K-12 Chinese teachers in your state to participate in the STARTALK Reaching Generation C by Creating, Communicating, and Collaborating institute to be held July 18-27, 2010, on the ISU campus in Ames, Iowa.


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Summer Professional Development Courses for German Teachers

posted Monday, April 05, 2010 | Filed under: News 

The University of Rhode Island is offering professional development courses for high school teachers of German as part of its annual German Summer School (June 27 – August 6, 2010). This program allows high school teachers to earn up to 8 graduate credits in German in six weeks, four graduate credits in three weeks.


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Teach Europe

posted Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | Filed under: News 

The Center for European Studies (with support of the Language Institute) is hosting the annual Teach Europe conference at Rutgers on Friday, April 23 from 9-2:30.


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Workshops on Culture, Technology, Literacy

posted Friday, March 12, 2010 | Filed under: News 

The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) is offering a series of professional development opportunities related to language teaching and learning between June 1 and June 8, 2010, on the University of Arizona campus.


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Participate in an ACTFL Spanish Study

posted Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | Filed under: News 

ACTFL is currently seeking Intermediate level Heritage speakers of Spanish between the ages of 18-29 to be part of a study designed to gather reliable data about the range and variety of spoken language profiles of heritage speakers.


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