Minutes of the Fall 2003 Meeting of the

Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of the AATG

on September 20th, 2003

 

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AATG combined with CCFLT's 15th Annual Linguafest, an immersion experience for teachers seeking to refresh their language skills, on September 20th and 21st, 2003. The Theme was: "Spicing up Language Teaching!"

Linguafest is an anual weekend for language teachers to brush up on their language skills, socialize with old and new friends, learn more about the language and culture you teach.

The German language group enjoyed Jo Sanders (incoming AATG President) present throughout the day and provide teachers with lots of comprehensible input. We shared food, had valuable mini-workshops, and played games in the target language.

Linguafest was held at at the rustic "Mountain Get-Away Cabins," 2918 Soda Creek Road, Idaho Springs, Colorado 80452. (http://www.mtgetawaycabins.com - This place also operates under the name Clear Creek Dude Ranch!)

The Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of AATG had this Fall Meeting in Idaho Springs in conjunction with the CCFLT immersion weekend. Seventeen members were present. Lawrence Glatz introduced the candidates for up-coming elections. Running for Vice-president: Doug Philipp & Peter Hebert; for Secretary: Robin Mitchell & Michael Miller. Elections will be conducted via e-mail.

Lawrence announced that the next meeting will be held in conjunction with the CCFLT Spring conference in Colorado Springs: http://www.ccflt.org/springconf.htm . The Goethe Institute will be holding sessions on Thursday & Saturday of the conference.

Information was given about the Goethe Institute Soccer Bridge. It will be held at Grandview High School in Aurora on October 11th, 2003. It is not too late too register a team more in formation is available at the Goethe Institute website: : http://www.goethe.de/uk/saf/soccerbridge/index.htm

This year the AATG testing will be supervised by J. T. Hughes (with help by Jay Bodine), colleagues at Colorado State University:

JT Hughes (actually Jolyon Timothy Hughes)

Jolyon.Hughes@colostate.edu

970-491-2044 (office)

970-267-8805 (home)

Dept. of Foreign Langs. & Lits. 1774

Clark Bldg. C-104

Colorado State Univ.

Fort Collins, CO 80523

With help from his colleague:

Jay Bodine

970-226-4435 (home)

970-491-7542 (office)

Concerns were brought up about how the scores are reported and the need for a more proficiency based report to be used in local schools to show how students are meeting standards.

Ideas are needed to promote membership in the local chapter. Only 33% of national members are associated with the Colo./Wyo. chapter.

Deloris DeLapp announced her retirement at the end of this school year. She would like to know of anyone who would be interested in the position at Hinkley High School. The person who replaces her will probably have to teach French or Spanish, as well as German. She can be contacted at 303-337-8714.

The members were then treated to an all day workshop presented by Jo Sanders from Alaska. Her ideas were well received.

Sincerely Submitted,

Deloris DeLapp