Junior High, High School and College experience in various Massachusetts locale AND since retirement teaching elementary school and then at a local college and their graduate school!!
My classroom is student centered and ACTIVE: students are constantly working with other students, moving about and USING the language they are learning... and most importantly understanding that KIDS ARE PEOPLE, TOO!!
Past president of MaFLA, MaFLA Distinguished Service Award, Chevalier dans l'ordre des palmes academiques, College Board AP Teacher of the Year award,.. but the BEST was a student-run retirement celebration of 200+ students from over 30 years with new choral/orchestral arrangement written by students for the occasion, a flashmob of Les Mis and students speakers.
B.A. Salem State College M.A. Middlebury College D.A. State University of New York
Author of Allons au-dela (2011) AP French: Preparing for the Language and Culture Examination (2011), AP French: Preparing for the Language Examination,(Pearson) C'est à toi 3,(EMC) various ancillaries to Discovering French (DC Heath) including the Long Block Activity booklets and the vocabulary and grammar sections of the CD-Rom programs. Contact me with questions, requests or ideas at rladd204@gmail.com
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific
English Language Arts, Spelling, Social Studies, World Languages, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian