Greetings
Class of 2011!

Monday, August 23, 2010

By now you have experienced the early challenges of your first rotation with in-service days and two days of classes with your mentor teacher. What a wonderful beginning to a semester of teaching, learning, and school. You have embarked on a tremendous voyage of discovery about yourself and the realities of public education. At times, you will be overwhelmed. At other times, you will be overjoyed. But next May, you will be amazed and astonished at your professionalism and readiness to have your own classroom.

This semester we continue with our main textbook, The Teacher’s Handbook, 4th ed., by Shrum and Glisan. We will cover Chapters Seven, Eight, and Nine, and supplement with the Blaz books on Standards and Performance Assessment. Our main goals will be to develop effective lesson plans and student assessments. You will also decide upon an action research project and attend the District III Foreign Language Conference — and don’t forget that I will be visiting your classes to assess your teaching.

Before you know it, the Fall Semester will come to a close, and you will be well on the way to becoming an “emerging” professional in your chosen field of education. I look forward to traveling with you.

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Dr. Bowles

Freddie A. Bowles
Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education and Health Professions
Stone House South F09
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Office: 479-575-3035
fbowles@uark.edu

Different languages — I mean the actual vocabularies, the idioms — have worked out certain mechanisms of communication and registration. No one language is complete. A master may be continually expanding his own tongue, rendering it fit to bear some charge hitherto borne only by some other alien tongue, but the process does not stop with any one man. While Proust is learning Henry James, preparatory to breaking through certain French paste-board partitions, the whole American speech is churning and chugging, and every other tongue doing likewise.
     — Ezra Pound, "How to Read," 1929