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2019 Spring/Summer Communication 2019 Spring/ Summer edition A message from the Editor Bonjour chères lectrices et chers lecteurs, I am delighted to introduce our members to the new Board of Directors for 2019-2020. This group of diverse professionals volunteer their time during the day, at night and on weekends to keep this association vibrant, current and serving the needs of their members in regards to FSL and International Languages in Ontario. Our association is proud to have a wonderful team of directors with a variety of teaching experiences, language backgrounds, and great strengths and from all over our province working on our collective behalf. I encourage you, our readers, to enhance your network and broaden your knowledge by actively using your OMLTA membership. Your membership provides you with free access to resources, leadership opportunities and discounted events. We encourage members to support networking and collaboration by contributing their expertise to our Communication; consider submitting ideas, strategies, resources or articles that support the modern language classroom. Also, this year we will be introducing our activity of the month where we welcome members from across the province to submit classroom strategies and tools to be featured on our website. Other exciting initiatives are being planned, so be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to keep informed. Je suis tellement fière de faire partie d’une équipe si travaillante et positive. Entrez en contact avec vos directrices/directeurs, venez nous connaitre cette année et profitez de votre adhésion. Suivez-nous sur les médias sociaux. Inscrivez-vous à une de nos conférences ou à un de nos événements. Vos commentaires sont bienvenus et nous vous encourageons de nous envoyer un courriel ([email protected]) si vous voulez contribuer à cette revue de quelque façon que ce soit. Restez inspiré.es et motivé.es! Lisa Picerno Editor Communication Meet Your OMLTA/ AOPLV Board of Directors and Team for 2019- 2020 Susanna Beatrice-Gojsic President Hamilton-Wentworth DSB French, Italian, English Jimmy Steele Past President Toronto DSB German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Icelandic, English Josette Bosc 1st Vice-President Ottawa Catholic DSB French, English Alessandro La Gamba 2nd Vice-President Toronto Catholic DSB French, English, Italian Beverly Kukhta-Jackson (2019-2022) Secretary Hamilton-Wentworth DSB French, English Pamela Marshall Gray (2017-2020) Treasurer Near North DSB French, English Sonia Blanchard - Administrative Assistant since 2013 French, English Haley Brooks (2019-2020) DSB Ontario North East French, English Wendy Chan (2019-2022) Durham DSB French, English Pauline Galea (2018-2021) Durham Catholic DSB French, English Angeline Humber (2019-2021) Webmaster Greater Essex County DSB French, English Board of Directors continued Francesca Martinez (2019-2022) Algonquin Lakeshore Catholic DSB French, English, Spanish Marissa Moser (2019- 2020) Waterloo DSB French, English Lisa Picerno (2019-2022) Editor of Communication Independent Schools Italian, Spanish, French, English Jordan Sloan (2019-2022) Renfrew County DSB French, English Julie Théberge (2019-2021) Ottawa Catholic DSB French, English We send our sincere thanks to Josée Boutin, from the Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB, for her four years of commitment to the OMLTA Board of Directors. She recently stepped down from our Board and her contributions, particularly to the 2016 Fall Conference and the 2018 Concours d’art oratoire, are warmly remembered. We also would like to recognize the enormous efforts from the following past OMLTA Board of Directors: Nicole Czaja (8 years on the board), Laura Dursley (7 years on the board), Ida Continenza (4 years on the board), Mara Reich (2 years on the board) and Lianne Perreault- Raymond (1 year on the board). Your contributions were tremendous! Directors in Action Our Directors have been busy representing the OMLTA/AOPLV in the community at the following events: Canadian Independent Schools’ Modern Languages Symposium York University Additional Qualification Course - FSL, Parts 1-3 - Woodbridge and Toronto Ontario High School German Contest Ontario Secondary Schools Spanish Contest Toronto Universities’ French Contest Concours et festival d’art oratoire, CPF Ontario at Glendon College Modern Languages Council OTF (Ontario Teachers’ Federation) Curriculum Forum OISE/UT Additional Qualification - FSL, Part 1 Support our partners Thank you to our Communication newsletter sponsor www.watermelon-works.com Save The Date SAVE THE DATE FOR THE OMLTA/AOPLV 2020 SPRING CONFERENCE! NEW VENUE and NEW DATE HILTON MEADOWVALE MISSISSAUGA 6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON, L5N 2L3 APRIL 17-18, 2020 Deepen your understanding of how to promote well-being and support student resilience through the global competencies. Enrich your language teaching skills, experience culture in a collaborative and convivial setting, and network with other second language teachers across the province! Call for workshops will be posted on www.omlta.org this fall! Be a part of the largest annual conference for second language teachers in the province. 2019 Fall Conference The OMLTA FALL CONFERENCE will take place this coming Saturday September 28th at the University of Ottawa. This year we are delighted to be partnering with EducLang and the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT) to offer educators an amazing opportunity for learning and collaboration. We look forward to deepening our collaboration and discovering new innovations across diverse stakeholder groups in language teaching, including established and emerging researchers, graduate students, practicing teachers, teacher candidates, as well as professional association representatives. Take advantage of reduced Early Bird conference rates by registering before Monday, September 9th, 2019! Le CONGRÈS D’AUTOMNE OMLTA aura lieu de samedi 28 septembre à l’Université d’Ottawa. Cette année, nous sommes ravis de travailler en partenariat avec EducLang et l’Association canadienne des professeurs de langues secondes (ACPLS) afin d’offrir une journée centrée sur l’apprentissage et l’innovation. Cette journée représente une belle opportunité pour les divers groupes d’intervenants en enseignement des langues qu’ils soient des chercheurs établis ou émergents, des étudiants d’études supérieures, des enseignants de langues, des étudiants en formation ou encore des représentants d’associations professionnelles. Resource Review Rocketbook https://getrocketbook.com/pages/educators By Marisa Moser Rocketbook. How cool does that sound? This interactive notebook is a great resource for teachers and students! This notebook is reusable and allows for much ease in note taking. With this notebook, students write their notes, teachers take a picture of the work and can easily upload the work to a storage file of their choice (e.g., google drive, e-mail etc.) This is very handy for when students are absent or working at home for extended periods of time. I used it in my classes this year and it was a big success. A timesaver for me and my students. Rocketbook also offers free PDF sheets available on their website. Download the free Rocketbook app on your phone today to try it out! Resource Review www.bookrix.com By: Lisa Picerno Great for International Language Teachers! Students are able to download easy readers, short stories, novels in 25 foreign languages for FREE. Teachers can project the book on screen and analyze the text in large font for all to see. I had some success this year using this free resource with my Grade 11 and 12's in Spanish class. My students were happy to use a free application for reading books but the footnotes on many pages were often not of interest to the students but on the other hand, English is used in the footnotes which they appreciated. I will continue to use this website next year for a variety of authentic written material for my students for free! Auguri! Winner of the Italian Bursary in Sienna Congratulations to OMLTA member Mario Buscemi who is the winner of the Study in Sienna bursary awarded by the Istituto di Cultura in partnership with the OMLTA. Mario is currently employed by the York Catholic District School Board. Mario will study this summer in a program dedicated for foreign teachers of the Italian language. L A N G U A G E C O N T E S T S The 48th Ontario High School German Contest This year, over 30 students from five schools competed at the 48th Annual Ontario High School German Contest at Appleby College in Oakville. We are delighted to announce the top winners in each category: in Group A (one year of German) Annaliese Bissell; in Group B (more than one year of German) Oliver Weizel; in Group C (students with extra exposure to German) Jessica Link, and in Group D (students with strong German background) the top student was Gabriella Kinney. The winners in Groups A, B and C are all students of the University of Toronto Schools. The winner of Group D is from the Gary Allan Saturday School. All our winners received cash prizes and gifts donated by our sponsors. Thanks to the generosity of the German Embassy in Ottawa, the German Consulate in Toronto, and the Goethe-Institut, we were also delighted to award trips to Germany to two of our top winners in Group B: Oliver Weizel and Emily Wan, both from the University of Toronto Schools. We were also very honoured to have some special guests at the prize awards’ ceremony: Tanja Matuszis und Katarina Reljic representing the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany; Markus Stock, Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto; Elke Rühl, German Consultant, Canada East; Marje Stock, Consultant for German as a Foreign Language, Cornelsen Publishing Company; Christine Korte, Goethe-Institut, Toronto; James Steele, President, Ontario Association of Teachers of German, and Magda Stroinska and Nikolai Penner from the Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University. We would like to extend our special thanks to the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut for their continued support of our Contest.
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