Qualifications required for teachers in France versus the United States and their Impact.

The French state is responsible for the training and certification of French elementary and secondary school teachers. Each academie, responsible for a particular geographic area and supported by the universities in that area, runs an Instituts Universitaires de Formation des Maîtres (IUFM). IUFMs provide two years of post-graduate teacher training for nursery and primary school teachers in France. The curriculum of each IUFM is carefully regulated by the state to conform to specific standards. The curriculum for each IUFM includes training in French, mathematics, a foreign language, and physical education during the two year; the skills each teacher trainee is expected to master are specifically listed in a national standard skills reference book. Additionally, approximately one-third the training is devoted to actual work experience including in school placements…more

Guess what we all are watching this weekend?

22nd Annual GrapeFest on Sept.11, 12, 13 and 14

Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer Fun Run & 5K will be on Saturday, September 20th in Addison

Dear Friends,
Just wanted to remind you that this year’s Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer Fun Run & 5K will be on Saturday, September 20th in Addison. I hope you’ll consider joining Team DIS again, and supporting this great cause.

If you want to register for the DIS team (we already have 29 people participating!), please follow these easy on-line instructions, and I will pick up your packets for you and have them on Saturday morning. We will plan on having a reserved table at the Food Tent for the post-race festivities (including a concert by Eddie Coker, who the kids love), if you can make it. Everything will be finished by about 10:30 or so.

If your children run or walk in the race, they will get a free pass good for all day Saturday to the Oktoberfest.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

With warmest regards,
Beth

WOKC FUN RUN Registration Instructions:

· Copy & paste this link into your browser: https://www.active.com/register/index.cfm?event_id=1599084&skipLogin=true

· Click on the third button “Team Member Registration” and then click “Continue”

· On the next page, select the button for either the Fun Run (1 mile) or 5K and complete the checked boxes (including the request for initials) and hit “Continue”

· On the next page, on the “Select a Team” drop down menu, select “Dallas International School” and complete the rest of the information about the participant
· Our password is tigres

· NOTE: For the 2nd to last question, “Where do you wish to pick up your run packet?”, please select “Run On Richardson” so that I can pick up your packet for you

· On the next page you will be asked for payment info

· Once you complete payment, you will receive an email with your confirmation #.

· When you have the confirmation, please send me an email with your T-Shirt sizes.

Dallas Accueil Calendrier Septembre 2008

Calendrier Septembre 2008

A propos de Dallas Accueil

Dallas Accueil est une association apolitique, non confessionnelle, à but non lucratif, s’adressant à toute personne francophone ou parlant la langue française. Dallas Accueil est affiliée à la Fédération Internationale des Accueils Français et Francophones à l’Etranger (FIAFE), qui gère un réseau mondial de plus de 126 accueils.

Sa vocation est d'accueillir et d'aider les personnes de langue française qui s'installent à Dallas et ses environs, à s'intégrer à la vie américaine et à les accompagner tout au long de leur séjour à Dallas.

Fondée en 1985 et gérée exclusivement par des bénévoles, notre association dispense dans un cadre informel des informations pratiques et propose des activités aux familles expatriées ou locales, francophones et francophiles.

Dallas Accueil multiplie les moments de rencontre, d'échanges et de découverte en proposant notamment :

- un café mensuel pour faire connaissance, se retrouver et échanger les derniers tuyaux,
- des activités culturelles, touristiques, manuelles, sportives, culinaires et ludiques,
- un club " mamans-jeunes enfants ",
- un journal mensuel qui foisonne d'informations pratiques (petites annonces, calendrier des évènements…).

NOUS DÉCLINONS TOUTE RESPONSABILITÉ EN CAS D’ACCIDENT OU D’INCIDENT SURVENANT LORS DE L’UNE DE NOS ACTIVITÉS.

Nous espérons vous avoir donné un petit aperçu de la vie dynamique de notre association, alors bon surf et à bientôt !

Plano Ballon Festival - September 19, 20, 21, 2008

Benefits of Language Immersion

video

School district offers Spanish immersion up to 7th grade

By JEFF BRADY / WFAA-TV

".....He says most American school districts graduate students who are woefully ill-prepared for the world they will face and foreign language skills are a prime example.
"After having been to China twice, I think we have maybe five years to turn things around and get serious," he said. "