• Meeting with my school’s Global Education Task Force — We are looking for some international conferences, or something in-house that we could do here.

    – At the moment I am reading Going Global from the Asia Society. . .

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    Yes, we have Spanish and French as well as German from grade six. Hopefully I can arrange something with you next year.

  • Rich Platts posted a new activity comment: 3 years ago

    In reply to: Rich Platts posted an update in the group Middle School: Hi everyone — I’m a teacher of German at levels 7 & 8, but am also very interested in helping to build connections for teachers at other levels in my […] View

    Great! This is great to hear — I spent a few weeks in Rosario, Argentina some years ago as part of a Study abroad program. We went to Buenos Aires for a weekend, which was great. Unfortunately we were unable to visit for a second weekend since the country was in an uproar over the sale (and disbanding of) Aerolineas Argentinas, which we…[Read more]

  • Rich Platts posted an update in the group Group logo of Middle SchoolMiddle School: 3 years ago

    Hi everyone — I’m a teacher of German at levels 7 & 8, but am also very interested in helping to build connections for teachers at other levels in my district.

    • Hello, we are a School in Buenos Aires, our students speak Spanish and German and they learn Englisch from class 4 on. We are very interested to connect our chidren with other Schools.

      • Great! This is great to hear — I spent a few weeks in Rosario, Argentina some years ago as part of a Study abroad program. We went to Buenos Aires for a weekend, which was great. Unfortunately we were unable to visit for a second weekend since the country was in an uproar over the sale (and disbanding of) Aerolineas Argentinas, which we…[Read more]

    • Do you have Spanish at your school? I teach 6th, 7th and 8th grade Spanish….we also have a French teacher…I took German in school, but here at my school, we don’t have it. Also, maybe for next year, it might be neat for our kids to talk back and forth and they can ask how to say some things in German and yours how to say some things in…[Read more]

      • Yes, we have Spanish and French as well as German from grade six. Hopefully I can arrange something with you next year.

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