vendredi 4 septembre 2009

Fall meeting

Reminder: The fall meeting of the Houston Chapter will take place on Saturday, September 12 at the Alliance française de Houston (www.afdehou.org), beginning at 2pm. The Alliance is located at 427 Lovett, Houston, TX 77006 in the Montrose area, just southeast of the intersection of Westheimer and Montrose. Please help us get the word out: bring a colleague, tell a friend, forward to other French faculty members at your school. We encourage all stakeholders in French education to attend, whether they are members or not! We've lined up two important guest speakers for the meeting... one is our wonderful regional rep to the national office, Dr. Jacki Thomas, and another is our own fabulous Attachée culturelle adjointe from the French Consulate, Marie Maurannes! Please come and join us for an informative meeting!
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Qui sommes-nous?

We are the Houston Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF-Houston). The American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) was founded in 1927 and is the largest national association of French teachers in the world with nearly 10,000 members. Our members are French teachers at all levels and include approximately 3/4 secondary teachers and 1/4 post-secondary. We also have a growing number of French teachers in immersion settings and in the elementary grades. As a professional association, we seek to address the concerns of our members which include: promoting the study of languages in general and French in particular; facilitating the implementation of national and state standards in the classroom; improving the training of French teachers by encouraging minimum levels of language and cultural proficiency, and exposure to the French-speaking world through study abroad opportunities; creating opportunities and finding resources for practicing teachers to update their skills and improve their teaching; and, finally, encouraging the use of new technologies in the teaching of French and actively developing materials to support this use. Our regional representative to the national office is Dr. Jacqueline Thomas of Texas A&M University at Kingsville.

Officers of AATF-Houston

Roya Razavipour MCARTHUR, President
rrazavipour@gmail.com



Dore Sulistyo, Vice President
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Johan P. Vergult, Grand Concours Director
Johan.Vergult@springbranchisd.com



Kathy KOCH, Secretary



Gerri MANLOVE, Treasurer
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Claude BOUTIN, Destination France Program Administrator
cgboutin@yahoo.com


Marci Pampe, Webmaster
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