Spotlight on: Kentucky World Languages Association
With almost 500 active members, the Kentucky World Languages Association is the largest organization for world language educators, professionals and supporters in Kentucky.
Fayette French teacher wins world languages award
Laura Roché, a French teacher at Beaumont Middle School (Fayette County) is the 2015 recipient of the Kentucky World Language Association Outstanding Teacher Award. She received the award Sept. 26 at the KWLA annual conference in Louisville. Roché is in her 24th year of teaching French. She has spent the past six years at Beaumont Middle after having taught at [...]
Kentucky World Language Association conference set
Registration is open for the Kentucky World Language Association’s annual conference Sept. 24-26 at the Ramada Plaza Louisville Hotel and Conference Center in Louisville. The conference will include professional development sessions and keynote speaker Nicole Naditz, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ 2015 Teacher of the Year. Click here for more information.
Playful teaching method helps German teacher, her students excel
Kentucky’s world language teacher of the year uses innovative methods and technology to reach her students.
Use it or lose it: World languages focus on communication
Kentucky students who go to a foreign country are sometimes faced with a significant problem – they can’t ask for food. More specifically, they can’t order the food they want, according to Jacque Van Houten, world language and international education consultant for the Kentucky Department of Education.
