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LOTE CED Lowdown

The Lowdown newsletter was distributed to foreign language department heads and district coordinators to provide updates on LOTE Center activities and to highlight news and resources of interest to LOTE educators. Selected articles are featured below and archived issues indexed at left.

Selected Articles From Past Issues

A Class Act: Learning Scenarios (includes off-site links)
Japanese Learning Scenarios on the Web
This Web site contains Japanese National Standards Learning Scenarios created by twelve Japanese language teachers in Indiana and one in Iowa.
Integrating Technology and Culture Learning
CLEAR News article: Learners discuss cultural perspectives in film with others on-line.
Interdisciplinaire à la carte: Making Connections in the French Class
This article in the AATF National Bulletin focuses on connections to other subject areas.
Designing a Standards-Based Thematic Unit ... (link no longer working - 2008)
Article in PDF format from the spring 1999 ACTFL Newsletter
Great TEKSpectations: Innovative Learning Scenarios for the LOTE Classroom
Learning scenarios for Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.

Featured Articles
Retiring Fort Bend ISD Language Coordinator to Begin New Career
Denise Tanner of Fort Bend ISD has been named Texas Secondary Teacher of the year.
German Teacher Named Secondary Teacher of the Year
Texas LOTE Teachers Participate in Action Research Initiative
2001-2002 TFLA Teachers of the Year: Five Texas teachers were honored this year by the Texas Foreign Language Association.
The Metz Exchange: The Smyrls Abroad: One Texas family's account of living in France in the 1980s.

Letters From the Field
Differentiated Instruction in the LOTE Classroom
THIS is Staff Development
A New Transition: From San Antonio to Austin
FLES for Many: One District's Solution
TEA Transitions: Reflections on Past and Future
Reflections on the Creative Process in LOTE Teaching and Learning
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