mardi 26 janvier 2010

AATF Houston Chapter Spring Meeting 2010

The 2010 spring meeting of the Houston chapter of the AATF will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of HATFL (Houston Area Teachers of Foreign Language) on Saturday, Feb. 20. The meeting will be held on the second floor of the Jerabeck Center of the University of St. Thomas, from 1-3PM. It is not necessary to register for the HATFL meeting to attend the AATF chapter meeting, but members are encouraged to do so. For more information concerning activities planned for the HATFL meeting, go to http://www.hatfl.org/ For directions and information on parking, go to http://www.tinyurl.com/AATFspring2010directions.

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
GUNDORE@sbcglobal.net



Johan P. Vergult, Grand Concours Director
Johan.Vergult@springbranchisd.com



Kathy KOCH, Secretary



Gerri MANLOVE, Treasurer
gembus@earthlink.net



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


Marci Pampe, Webmaster
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