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The use of authentic documents in the beginner levels of foreign language classes requires careful planning if the material is to be of real meaning to students with limited language skills. The session presents a lesson plan in which high school students in their second year of French use the Web as a tool to discover and practice new linguistic elements within the cultural framework of Europe and the European Union. Through this unit, students learn about the geography of Europe, the origin of the name of European capitals, the history and symbols of the European Union, the Euro, Art History, and the specific issues of the European Union today.
Instructor: Fabienne Gerard
Fabienne GÉRARD is a Ph.D. Candidate, University of La Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France. Her field includes Foreign Language Didactics and her dissertation is intitled "The Web and the Aims of Education in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning". She is a French Teacher at The Trinity School, New York City, New York and her Course Web Site can be visited at
http://cyber.trinity.nyc.ny.us/fabienne.gerard/
The conference presentations she has given include “The Web and the Aims of Education in the Foreign Language Classroom”, “The French Cyberbooks – A set of Online Textbooks Created at Cary Academy for the French Curriculum”, “The Web: a Collaborative Editing Tool for Foreign Language Instruction”, “The Use of Authentic Web Documents in the Foreign Language Classroom”. The Workshops she taught included : “Developing Web pages with Front Page”, “Creating a Thematic Online Unit for the Foreign Language Classroom”, “Teaching the Humanities with Technology at the Secondary Level”, “Using Technology to Connect to Other Disciplines“.
How do teachers of World Languages and Social Studies at American secondary schools bring students to enduring understandings of the power of European identity in a changing European political, economic and cultural landscape? Teachers can achieve success in this endeavor using the film Die Mitte (The Center) by Stanislaw Mucha as a base text to explore issues of place and identity in the EU and beyond. The film provides strong points of departure for studying and discussing the EU in World Languages and Social Studies classrooms. This interactive session will guide teachers in developing solid teaching units.
Instructor: Christopher Gwin
Mr. Christopher Gwin, Teacher of German/Social Studies at Haddonfield Memorial School, Camden, NJ, was awarded the Mandel Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Christopher GwinBA- German , RutgersMA- Education, ColumbiaMA- History, Stockton College I teach German courses and social studies courses at Haddonfield Memorial High School in NJ, undergraduate German courses at Rowan University, history and teacher development courses at Camden County College and the methods of foreign language teaching course at Rutgers in Camden. I am the VP of the South Jersey chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German and sit on the executive board of Foreign Language Educators of NJ. I am the editor of the state of NJ journal for world languages called Multiverse.I am the Vice President of the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council and the 2005 recipient of the Janusz Korczak International Teaching Award.
Instructor: Andrzej Harasimowicz
Visiting Professor at Columbia University was Director General in the Council of Ministers’ Office, 1991-92; Director of European Integration Bureau, 1991-96: responsible for Government’s programming and implementing activities within the area of European Integration; Director of European Institutions and Policy Planning Department in the Office of the Committee for European Integration, 1997-98: coordinating works leading to preparation of National Integration Strategy, Government official position in 1997; Spokesman for the Office of the Committee for European Integration, 2000-01; Director of European Information Department in the Office of the CEI, 2001-02; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Strategy and Foreign Policy Planning, Senior Counselor, 2002-03. He is now Professor at the Warsaw University Centre for Europe – since April 2003.
Instructor: Dr Irene Finel-Honigman
Professor, Columbia's Institute for the Studies of Europe,
Senior Research Associate, European Union Center, The Graduate School of The City University of New York, Adjunct Professor, Queens College, Cuny, and former Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies. Courses taught: History and Development of The European Union Research and Teaching Specialization: European Union, Economic Culture of The Eu, Us/Eu Financial/Economic/Trade Issues, French Politics, Economics, Culture and Language, Business Communications Recent Publications: "Bank Failures, Bailouts and Too-Big-To-Fail in The Eu, " Co-Author, Working Papers, Ciber, (Spring 2001); "Reconfiguration of Us/Eu Financial Competitiveness: The Bank, The State and The Shareholder," Working Paper Series, University of Georgia (April 2000); Us/Eu Relations in The Last Decade: Fortress Europe To The Transatlantic Business Dialogue," Culture and Strategy: European Culture and The Global Business Context, Robert Crane Ed. (2000).
Columbia University
David Jestaz is Visiting Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also affiliated with the Earth Institute's Center on Capitalism and Society (CCS), and is Program Director of the Alliance Program. His research focuses on macroeconomic issues, such as the specificity of European unemployment compared to Anglo-American countries, the relationship between stock market performance and the accumulation of employees, and the functioning of the stock market as a "cornerstone" institution in the United States. He is especially interested in the role of financial performance in international migration. David is a French national, and he holds a Ph.D. with High Distinction from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris.
E-mail: dj2028@columbia.edu
Andrzej
Harasimowicz
Visiting Professor at Columbia University
Andrzej
Harasimowicz was Director General in the Council of Ministers’
Office, 1991-92; Director of European Integration Bureau, 1991-96: responsible
for Government’s programming and implementing activities within
the area of European Integration; Director of European Institutions
and Policy Planning Department in the Office of the Committee for European
Integration, 1997-98: coordinating works leading to preparation of National
Integration Strategy, Government official position in 1997; Spokesman
for the Office of the Committee for European Integration, 2000-01; Director
of European Information Department in the Office of the CEI, 2001-02;
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Strategy and Foreign Policy
Planning, Senior Counselor, 2002-03. He is now Professor at the Warsaw
University Centre for Europe – since April 2003.
KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A
pronounced
by H.E
Martin Palouš
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States
Ambassador Palouš is a political philosopher and was among
the first signatories of the Charter 77 document calling on the communist
regime in power in Czechoslovakia to respect human rights. In November
1989 he became one of the founders of the Civic Forum, which replaced
the communist regime, and in 1990 he became a Minister of Parliament.
He was appointed Ambassador by Czech President Vaclav Havel in the summer
of 2001.
- Workshop: 10:30 - 12:00
- Exchange session: 12:00 - 12:30
- Evaluation: 12:30-12:45