Two Duval County Public Schools' American Sign Language (ASL) teachers have been selected from a large pool of nationwide applicants to present their work at the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages/Florida Foreign Language Association's (ACTFL/FFLA) national convention being held November 20-24, in Orlando, Florida.
Craig Leavitt, an ASL teacher at Ed White High School and the 2007 FFLA Most Valuable Teacher and Lesley Silvestris, an ASL teacher at Sandalwood High School who was the Florida American Sign Language Teachers Association's Teacher of the Year in 2007, will present a workshop entitled "Implementing Cross-Discipline Activities and Technology in the ASL Classroom."
The presenters have incorporated reading and writing strategies into activities which they have used in their classes to teach major milestones in the evolution and development of the language, including principal historical events and controversies relating to deaf education and their impact on the language; key aspects of deaf culture including its value as a language; and the use of the language as an art form.
Duval County Public Schools currently employs more than 200 world language instructors.
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