Institute Presenters
Mr. Greg Duncan
Interprep, Inc.
Presentation Titles:
What does it mean to be proficient?
Planning for Proficiency
Greg Duncan, President of InterPrep, Inc. and a foreign language educator for more than 35 years, is an independent consultant who serves K-12 schools, teacher preparation institutions and other educationally focused entities throughout the United States and abroad. His work with schools includes professional development of teachers, curriculum and assessment design, and program evaluation. Most recently, his work has focused more intensely on immersion education at the state, local district and school levels in California, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. Greg serves the professional organization community as a frequent invited speaker at state, regional, national and international language conferences. He has authored and collaborated in the authorship of numerous publications in the field of foreign language education, and he has led the development of Emmy Award-winning distance learning programming in Japanese and Spanish. He has held positions of teacher, high school administrator and state supervisor (Georgia) of foreign languages and international education prior to his work as a consultant. During his career he has been awarded the ACTFL/National Textbook Company Award for Building Community Interest in Foreign Language Education, the Friendship Award from the Federal Republic of Germany, the Founders Award from the Southern Conference on Language Teaching, the Nelson H. Brooks Award for Outstanding Leadership to the Profession, bestowed by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and was the 2011 recipient of the ACTFL/NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. His academic studies were undertaken at the University of Salamanca, the University of Madrid, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University.
Dr. Myriam Met
[email protected]
Presentation Titles:
Creating Tomorrow's Global Leaders Through Immersion Education
What do we know about schooling students in a new language?
Core Immersion Strategies
Language Learning through Stories
Dr. Myriam Met is an independent consultant, having left the University of Maryland in 2008 where she was Acting Director at the National Foreign Language Center. She has been a supervisor of foreign language program for major urban and suburban school districts, where she was responsible for initiating and overseeing a variety of innovative programs, including the first two-way immersion program in the state of Maryland and the first Mandarin immersion program in a US public elementary school. Her current work focuses on support for K-12 program for language learners, particularly immersion in a variety of languages.
Interprep, Inc.
Presentation Titles:
What does it mean to be proficient?
Planning for Proficiency
Greg Duncan, President of InterPrep, Inc. and a foreign language educator for more than 35 years, is an independent consultant who serves K-12 schools, teacher preparation institutions and other educationally focused entities throughout the United States and abroad. His work with schools includes professional development of teachers, curriculum and assessment design, and program evaluation. Most recently, his work has focused more intensely on immersion education at the state, local district and school levels in California, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. Greg serves the professional organization community as a frequent invited speaker at state, regional, national and international language conferences. He has authored and collaborated in the authorship of numerous publications in the field of foreign language education, and he has led the development of Emmy Award-winning distance learning programming in Japanese and Spanish. He has held positions of teacher, high school administrator and state supervisor (Georgia) of foreign languages and international education prior to his work as a consultant. During his career he has been awarded the ACTFL/National Textbook Company Award for Building Community Interest in Foreign Language Education, the Friendship Award from the Federal Republic of Germany, the Founders Award from the Southern Conference on Language Teaching, the Nelson H. Brooks Award for Outstanding Leadership to the Profession, bestowed by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and was the 2011 recipient of the ACTFL/NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. His academic studies were undertaken at the University of Salamanca, the University of Madrid, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University.
Dr. Myriam Met
[email protected]
Presentation Titles:
Creating Tomorrow's Global Leaders Through Immersion Education
What do we know about schooling students in a new language?
Core Immersion Strategies
Language Learning through Stories
Dr. Myriam Met is an independent consultant, having left the University of Maryland in 2008 where she was Acting Director at the National Foreign Language Center. She has been a supervisor of foreign language program for major urban and suburban school districts, where she was responsible for initiating and overseeing a variety of innovative programs, including the first two-way immersion program in the state of Maryland and the first Mandarin immersion program in a US public elementary school. Her current work focuses on support for K-12 program for language learners, particularly immersion in a variety of languages.