Conference

Dates:	Friday, October 31 & Saturday, November 1 Pre-Conference Workshops - Thursday, October 30
Preliminary Program:	Click here for the Preliminary Program.
Conference Registration:	Click here for Registration Form. Click here for New Teacher Confirmation Form.
Conference Schedule:	Conference Schedule - Click here to view.
Location:	Sturbridge Host Hotel - Directions
Theme:	The Foreign Language Standards: Creating Life-Long Learners
Keynote Speaker:	Dr. Myriam Met, Acting Director of the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland MaFLA is pleased to announce that Dr. Myriam Met will be giving the Keynote address at the 2008 Annual Conference. Dr. Met is a Senior Research Associate at the National Foreign Language Center in Washington D.C., responsible for K-12 language policy analysis and dissemination. Prior to that, she served as the Coordinator of Foreign Languages K-12 for Montgomery MD County Public Schools. She also served on the Advisory Council for the National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project. She has extensive publications in the areas of curriculum, assessment, and teacher development for all levels of foreign language instruction. Dr. Met has given over a hundred national and international invited addresses and has been involved with teacher training in most of the United States as well as abroad. Her Keynote Address “Language Teaching and Learning: How Good is Good Enough?” is bound to inspire you and to give you a deeper understanding of the role of the national standards in our profession.
Opening Session:	Dr. Jennifer Eddy, President of the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages. Dear MaFLA members, I invite you to participate in phase two of the survey "Needs Assessment for designing articulated K-12 language programs." Preliminary results of this survey were shared with members of the Delegate Assembly at ACTFL 2007. The purpose of this survey is to gather information on the practices and procedures of teachers and administrators. Results of this survey will facilitate professional development needs toward designing well-articulated K-12 programs for foreign language learners. This survey is being administered through the department of Secondary Education in the Division of Education at Queens College. This survey was developed from self assessments featured in the appendices of the document, Understanding Articulation, Designing for Performance: A Guide for Action in Planning Language Programs by Ruta Couet, Gregory Duncan, Jennifer Eddy, Myriam Met, Martin Smith, Maria Still, and Ann Tollefson. This project has been underwritten by generous support from the National Foreign Language Center (University of Maryland) and the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (Iowa State University). Our sincere thanks to both Dr. Myriam Met and Dr. Marcia Rosenbusch for their help with this project. Thank you for your participation in this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ulLTlwH7qm54Jf35JuWeMQ_3d_3d . Dr. Jennifer Eddy President National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages Assistant Professor of World Language Education, Queens College
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Entertainment:	Hummel and Hamm
Exhibitors:	Exhibit hours Thursday, October 30 3PM - 6PM Friday, October 31 9AM - 6:30PM

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