Room: Colorado
presented by Marian C. Hulsey, IB English A1 HL Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Nancy Boudreau, IB Language B German Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Jennifer Robinson, IB Language B French Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Sue Waters, IB Language B Spanish Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Classen School of Advanced Studies is a public and specialty college preparatory school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To expand students' knowledge of the world in which they will take their places as informed and involved citizens, English A1 and Group 2 Language B teachers collaborated to create units that were "more than just literature". We will show some of the videotaped presentations of student work, and a PowerPoint demonstration of how teachers can adapt these ideas to their current world literature and language B classes. Also, using song and fable, we will demonstrate how languages sound more alike than different as they provide ways to share the world and the future by conveying the human experience.
Marian C. Hulsey, IB English A1 HL Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Marian Hulsey has supervised and taught the IB English A1 curriculum since Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, opened in 1994. Although she has taught for 33 years, she says that the past 13 years at Classen with its diverse population have provided the structure and exciting incentive for her "to become a teacher." She coordinates the 6-12 English curriculum for the school, which also offers an intensive and sophisticated visual and performing arts program. Her training in music and drama enables her to bring enrichment activities to the study of literature that helps students see literature as more than the study of novels, plays, poems and essays.
Nancy Boudreau, IB Language B German Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Nancy Boudreau, a teacher for more than 20 years, the last 11 at Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is dedicated to her students and the instruction of IB Language B German. She is a frequent presenter at the Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association, for the Oklahoma Association of Teachers of German, and at three national conferences of the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. She was one of the master teachers for the State of Oklahoma, and continues to be a Teacher Trainer for the German government through the Goethe Institut. As part of GAPP (the German-American Partnership Program), her students partner with a school in Berlin, Germany, with reciprocal biannual exchanges between the schools.
Jennifer Robinson, IB Language B French Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Jennifer Robinson, a National Board Certified Teacher in World Languages, has been teaching French for 12 years, the last three of which have been IB language B French at Classen School of Advanced Studies, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She has been awarded a French Embassy Scholarship to study at the Francoforum Language Institute in St.-Pierre-et-Miquelon, and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study the literature and cultural geography of francophone West Africa in Senegal. Currently she is working with the French Ministry of Education and the Oklahoma State Department of Education to create an educational partnership between the schools in Oklahoma and the Academie d'Amiens in France. Ms Robinson also leads student trips to France, England, and other parts of Europe.
Sue Waters, IB Language B Spanish Teacher, Classen School of Advanced Studies
Sue Waters has been teaching IB Language B Spanish for 13 years at Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She has sponsored student trips to Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, the Galapagos and Spain. This foreign travel enhances the classroom study of Spanish and provides an opportunity for many students to experience the often abstract interaction of a language in its primary settings, enabling students to see and hear the "real" use of language. Students return from these trips excited about learning more about Spanish and the diverse peoples who speak it. As they go on to college, many pursue semesters abroad in these same countries they were introduced to in her classes.
