Job Opening

Small private elementary Montessori school in Vancouver, WA, Pre-K through 8th grade, is looking for a full-time experienced French teacher. Our students’ abilities require a teacher capable of taking them as far as they can go. Will be replacing our current French teacher who has also taught an International Baccalaureate High School French program for eight years and is retiring this June.

Skinner uses a phonetic approach to French. It’s a methodology easily learned and with proven results. Training of two to three weeks will be provided when school resumes this fall.

French is taught daily, in small groups of about seven students for 20-30 minutes.
Enrollment is at about 150 students. As head French teacher you would be responsible for another French teacher who focuses solely on the younger students (21/2 yrs through Kindergarten).

Our students are enthusiastic learners with an almost insatiable desire for knowledge. They love to work and are open to any activities presented to them.

At Skinner, we assess and separate according to ability. Although we have defined groups, they are fluid. A program is in place for students through 4th grade, but programs for grades 5th through 8th will need to be developed.

If you are interested:
            Please call 360-696-4862
            E-mail at nikki@skinnermontessori.com
                        Or french@skinnermontessori.com

7/1/08
Gina Greco presented the paper “Perspectives on Peer-Review: Readers and Authors” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, on May 9, 2008.

6/15/08
Gina Greco received an Internationalization Mini-Grant to develop ties between students at PSU and students at the University of Ouagadougou. She has implemented email exchanges in two classes, and her French 303 class is creating a dvd about Portland State which will be screened for the students of the University of Ouagadougou.

4/15/08
Dr. Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, published a book review of Anne E. Duggan’s Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies.  The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France in The French Review.  Vol. 80, No. 2 (December 2006). 451-52.

4/15/08
Dr. Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper entitled “Journalistic Intimacy and Le Mercure galant” at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, May 2007.

4/15/08
Dr.Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, published an article entitled “Sociopolitical Education and the Nouvelles of Le Mercure galant” in The Art of Instruction. Essays on Pedagogy and Literature in 17th-Century France. Ed. Anne L. Birberick. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 53-82.

11/15/06

Gina Greco participates in press conference on international education at the
American Cultural Center in Burkina Faso.

9/18/06
Gina Greco is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar’s Grant to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She will lecture on American Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Ouagadougou and will pursue research for curriculum development in francophone film.

9/18/06
Dr. Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper entitled "Edification and the Nouvelles of Le Mercure galant" at the "Modernités / Modernities" conference held at St. Catherine's College at Oxford University in June 2006.

5/19/06
Gina L. Greco presented the paper "Chivalry and Courtesy in Jean de Saintré" at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies on May 4 in Kalamzoo, Michigan.

5/19/06
Gina L.Greco received a $15,000 grant from the Florence Gould Foundation for the Charrette Project.

11/3/05
Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, is the editor of a volume entitled Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Actes du 36e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature to be published by Narr Press in Tübingen, Germany in June 2006.

4/18/05
Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures Faculty, presented a paper entitled "Women and the Ana" at the meeting of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature held April 14th-16th at the University of South Carlolina, Columbia.

4/11/05
Congratulations to Cécile Accilien who has received a Nationl Endowment for the Humanities grant to attend a Summer Institute on African Cinema in Dakar, Senegal.

4/4/05
Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to participate in a summer institute entitled "A Voice of their Own: Women Writing - Venice, London, Madrid, Paris--1550-1700" that will take place at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in July.

10/12/04
Stephen Walton, Foreign Languages faculty (French), gave a presentation on "An Approach to Teaching French Pronunciation" at the Joint Conference of COFLT/WAFLT (Confederation in Oregon for & Washington
Association for Language Teaching) in Portland, October 8, 2004.

10/11/04
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, who was the guest speaker at the annual Oregon Association of Teachers of French (OATF) and Washington Association of Teachers of French (WATF) conference held in Portland on October 9th at which she presented a paper entitled "L'acquisition des langues pour tous âges" ("Language Acquisition for All Ages").

1/15/04
Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, recently received two grants in support of an upcoming conference titled "Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature." Perlmutter, principal organizer of the May 6-8 conference, received $20,000 from the Florence Gould Foundation and $1,000 from the Internationalization Mini-Grant