MCLL students and faculty to participate in annual conference this weekend
The Loren Alexander Award was established in 1998 to recognize an outstanding future Kansas world language teacher, a student who is currently enrolled in a formal teacher-training program.
Jennifer Bailey who will graduate from WSU with a bachelor degree in Spanish Education and Spanish this December will receive this award on Saturday. She is currently substitute teaching but she looks forward to teaching in her own classroom. Brigitte Roussel who has supervised her work will be there to recognize her efforts.
Also on Saturday, a panel from faculty and students from WSU will take place at 3:30 p.m. The title of the panel is "En Espanol: Community-Based Learning, Communication
Strategies and Cultural Components in Higher Education."
The presenters are RociÂo del Aguila, graduate coordinator of the Spanish MA program; Julie Henderson, Spanish lecturer and former MA student; Amanda Allen, former Spanish MA student and Nickerson High School teacher; and Kristen Hock, Spanish MA student.
This panel aims to demonstrate the efficient use of different pedagogical approaches to teaching languages at the higher education level. They all have studies on communicative and beyond the classroom methodologies which originated several teaching projects. Their presentations are based on their experience and outcomes of teaching Spanish at Wichita State.