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Position Opening: 1.0 FTE Spanish Teacher Jesuit High School

Job Opening: 1.0 FTE Spanish Teacher. Click here to view the vacancy notice. The teacher application is below. The deadline is March 30, 2016.

To download a teacher application, please click here. If you have any questions regarding the teaching application, please contact Linda Pieratt atlpieratt@jesuitportland.org.

Southern Oregon University offers the Summer Language Institute, designed specifically for high school and middle school teachers. 

SOU SLI Brochure.pdf

Please note that the application deadline is only two weeks away, on March 3, 2016! 

The Summer Language Institute is a unique and intensive program. Students can earn their MA degree in Spanish or French Language Teaching over the course of three summers, or take classes for professional development, all on site in beautiful Guanajuato, Mexico or Angers, France.  

Please see our web page for complete information. 

Thank you, 

Joanna 

Joanna Steinman
Graduate Program Specialist
Southern Oregon University
541-552-6113

Register now for COFLT Spring Conference Workshops held on 

Saturday, March 12 at Lewis and Clark College, Portland.  

This year the spring conference will follow a full-day workshop only format.  Sign up for one of four workshop tracks: 

COFLT is seeking volunteers to join the Board in August 2016.  Elections will be held in the Spring, and the term will begin with the August board meeting. We are in need of representatives for 9-12, post-secondary, and immersion, as well as a secretary.  If you are interested in running for election, please complete the elections form.

The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) aims to help U.S. K-12 schools start or grow an Arabic or Mandarin Chinese language program. TCLP places teachers from China and Egypt in U.S. host schools for an academic year where they teach Mandarin or Arabic language and culture. Funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education TCLP provides teachers’ salaries, healthcare, roundtrip airfare, training, and ongoing program support.

WANT TO LEARN MORE? 

TCLP Application Deadline: January 25, 2016 at 11:59pm (EST). For more information and to apply, please visit http://tclprogram.org/host-school-application. You can also e-mail your questions to tclp@americancouncils.org.

For more information or questions about this program, contact:

Samantha Berk
Program Assistant, Teacher Programs
American Councils for International Education
1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20036
T 202.833.7522
F 202.833.7523

www.americancouncils.org

Oppose Cuts to International Education.  

Send a message to your representative to urge them to support funding for international education.  

 http://www.nhalliance.org/take_action_international_ed

House and Senate Appropriations Committees are meeting right now to negotiate funding levels and severe cuts to international education are on the table!

Act now to tell appropriators that international education programs are crucial for educating U.S. students for our interconnected world and training experts in foreign languages and cultures! 

Join the Coalition for International Education and NHA in opposing these cuts! 

Click here for more information on the proposed cuts to Title VI and Fulbright-Hays.

Learn more about Syria

This Refugee Backgrounder from the Center for Applied Linguistics provides basic information about Syrian refugees. It includes a brief guide to Syria’s history, people, and cultures and looks at the current crisis in Syria and conditions faced by refugees

Download the Refugee Backgrounder (pdf).

Bonjour, tout le monde,

The French singer, Eric VINCENT, is coming to Oregon and he will perform on Tuesday November 24th at 11:00am at Mt Hood Community College Studio Theatre, 26000 SE Stark, Gresham, OR 97030.

To attend this one-hour morning concert with your students, please contact: Eric Tschuy <Eric.Tschuy@mhcc.edu>. 

Cost is $8.00 a person.

To get a good idea of the value of this event, check out the reviews by teachers and students who have attended his concerts at: 

http://www.eric-vincent.com

Eric Tschuy
French instructor
Humanities Division
Mt Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark
Gresham, OR 97030
(503) 491-7469

The PNCFL semi-annual report Fall 2015.pdf is now available for download.  Please direct any questions or comment to a board member.

Travel the world, earn professional development credit, and bring global understanding into your classroom! 

Founded in 2007, Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that has sent over 1300 teachers abroad on adventurous travel programs. With GEEO educators can earn professional development credits while seeing the world. GEEO's trips are 7 to 21 days in length and are designed and discounted to be interesting and affordable for teachers. In addition to amazing tour leaders, many of the programs are accompanied by university faculty that are experts on the destination. GEEO also provides teachers educational materials and the structure to help them bring their experiences into the classroom. The trips are open to all nationalities of K-12 and university educators, administrators, retired educators, as well as educators’ guests.

"I will talk about these trips all year in my classes. For so many of my students, my description of my travels will be the only exposure they will have to other countries and other ways of life."

- Social studies teacher Michael Baldwin, whose first time traveling abroad was with GEEO. 

GEEO is offering the following travel programs for 2016: Bali/Lombok, Bangkok to Hanoi, China, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe, The Galapagos Islands, Greece, Iceland, India/Nepal, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Peruvian Amazon, Peruvian Andes, Portugal/Spain, Heart of the Silk Road, Southern Africa, Southern India, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Vietnam/Cambodia, Western Balkans, Peru (Winter Break), Israel (Spring Break), Moorish Spain (Spring Break), and Morocco (Spring Break). The registration deadline is June 1st, but space is limited and many programs will be full well before the deadline. 

Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can be reached 7 days a week, toll-free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9 AM-9 PM EST.

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Brooke Fisher
Outreach Director, GEEO Teacher Travel Programs
Phone: 1(877)600-0105
Email: Outreach@geeo.org
Website: www.GEEO.org