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Amy Baird in France!

03/02/2012

In January 2012, Amy Baird, a French minor, went to France prior to her student-teaching to do a four week practicum at the Lycée Voltaire in Orléans, France, arranged through the French Section of the Department of Modern Languages and the »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥'s College of Education.

According to Amy, "I attend the University in order to become a high school English teacher, and I will also have a minor in French when I graduate this May.  I spent five weeks in Orleans, France, a city an hour southwest of Paris, at the beginning of this semester.  I lived with a host family that had three children, and I taught at a high school in a variety of classes.  Most were preparatory classes with students 18-20 years old preparing for an exam to be accepted into a business school.  I also taught a European history class and a French literature class.  On the weekends, I visited Paris, Geneva, and Aix-en-Provence.  The experience not only improved my French, but taught me a lot about another culture and my future profession."