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Sue Fenton, M Ed. teacher, author, humorist, motivator (Over 1000 Communication Starters, Move Your Students to Paris, The Wit of Madame Fifi - Over 500 Puns with a French Twist, Co-creator (author and lyricist) of Oh Là Là—Sing Your Way to French)
Sue Fenton is available to speak to groups of language teachers and school districts. She has a dynamic 3-hour workshop which can expand into 5-hours with more hands-on practice activities.
Ms. Fenton presents strategies to help teachers boost and maximize communication for all students; make all aspects of their classrooms and lessons more communicative and plugged into the world; and make everything they teach communicative. She shows how to inject world exposure and skills not just into occasional "virtual" units but into everything that is taught all the time and every day. She presents her exciting curriculum strategies:
Yes, move your students into their own apartments in an international city for the entire year, and expand the experience beyond that city from level to level. Teach all language from that perspective.
FULL OF REALITY CHECKS, GREAT IDEAS, AND SPICED WITH HUMOR,
HER PRESENTATIONS ARE GETTING RAVE REVIEWS:
"Fantastic!"
"Phenomenal!"
"The most exciting things I have heard related to language teaching in years."
"Your presentation made the whole conference worth coming to."
An experienced teacher and author, she is known for her highly energized and creative classroom where her students are always engaged and communicating in enjoyable ways. Her students place into junior level French for majors at college and one student as a college freshman was chosen to be an intern at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. But her students don't just learn grammar; they speak French very fluently and are comfortable and confident in doing so.
Ms. Fenton has taught French 1, 2, 3, and 4 AP and Spanish 1 and 2, chaired two city-wide French immersion days,and wrote and taught a course called “Imagination.” She is known for her innovative ideas... from creating a beach on the French Riviera in her classroom, to having students perform magic shows in French, to teaching verb endings with socks and a clothesline, to dressing as Marie-Antoinette, to engaging her students in simulations and frequent role play conversations, to organizing the construction of an 18-foot papier mâché submarine, to following her students around Paris as they led the way. Her passion has been to help students believe in themselves, to encourage them to work hard, to set goals, and challenge themselves; to give students the desire to communicate in another language without feeling intimidated and uncomfortable; and to open up the world to them. She has spent many summers living in Paris, and is responsible for dozens of students going to France, for teaching students how to backpack and sleep on overnight trains, and for personally coordinating many student exchanges.
Contact Madame Fifi Publications for more information and fees.