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Wednesday, September 14, 1988
Collegian / Directions 9
Lively receives honors for teaching, leadership
Teacher views foreign language teaching as vocation instead of just job
By Cynthia Sparks
Staff Writer
Madeleine.Lively, NE Campus
foreign language department chair-
man, recently was named College
Teacher of the Year by the Texas
Foreign Language Association.
Besides her regular duties as an
instructor, Lively plans teacher
workshops for secondary school
teachers and gives frequent seminars
in various parts of the country.
Lively, who co-sponsors the
International Club, said the award is
given by the association to recog-
nize exemplary teaching and leader-
ship in the foreign language field.
She said the award also gives
other outstanding teachers in foreign
languages a chance to honor new
colleagues.
The Texas Foreign Language
Association also recognizes out-
standing teachers in the secondary
schools.
To qualify for the college award
the teacher must be an active mem-
ber of a professional foreign language
organization, have an established
record of acknowledged excellence
in teaching, motivate students, and
encourage cultural awareness.
As for winning the award,
Lively said, “My colleagues know
as a vocation rather than just a job and
that my life centers around instilling
the love of foreign language in oth-
ers.”
Lively said working closely on
NE Campus with two past recipients
of the award, Pam Kaatz, Spanish in-
structor and Dr. Jane Harper, Hu-
manities Department Chairman, as
well as other instructors in the North
Texas area, helped her gain recogni-
tion for her work.
“We know and appreciate each
other’s work,” she said.
Lively , who taught in secon-
dary schools for 19 years before
coming to TCJC,
has taught Span-
ish and French at
the secondary
and college lev-
els.
On NE
Campus since
1982, Lively has
been a full-time
instructor for the
past two years.
Lively has
been chairman of
the foreign lan-
guage depart-
ment since the
fall of 1986.
Through her
involvement in
secondary
school teaching
Lively became
aware of the need
for a support
group of foreign
language teach-
ers
workshops provide these teachers
the opportunity to work with others
in three areas: raising individual
levels of teaching, learning oral pro-
ficiency and communication meth-
odologies and developing materials
to take back to their class.”
KUDOS - NE Foreign Language Department Chairman Madeleine Lively
in public poses with the plaque awarded to her by the Texas Foreign Language
This led to Association.
her involvement
in the teacher workshops the past
three years in the summer.
Lively is now in charge of the
workshops started by Dr. Harper in
1984.
The workshops allow teachers
to interact with each other. These
Only one workshop with 11
participants met the first year.
This year 10 workshops met
with 144 participants from Texas
and the surrounding states.
This year’s theme was Im-
provement in Communication in
Critical Foreign Languages.
As for her teaching experience
on NE Campus, Lively said, “Col-
lege teaching is not that much differ-
ent from high school teaching.
“What I like about college
teaching is the great variety of levels
of involvement
that I can have in
foreign languages.
“For example,
I have taught credit
and non-credit
French and Span-
ish and have ad-
ministered one of
the largest
children’s foreign
language pro-
grams in the coun-
try.”
Lively said
TCJC has been the
most supportive
place she has
worked.
She appreciates
the opportunity the
school has given
her to promote and
to expand what
Dr. Harper estab-
lished for the NE
Campus foreign
language depart-
“ O u r
foreign language
department boasts an enrollment of
2,500 per semester,” Lively said, add-
ing that,’’the present laboratory is
bursting at the seams to accommo-
date students.
“We are proposing doubling the
size of the lab as well as incorporat-
photo by Chris Hood
ing the new technologies; (comput-
ers, videos, high-tech testing), as
well as traditional usage,” she said.
Lively said the reason for heavy
lab usage is the foreign language
department’s high oral practice re-
quirement, which is greater than at
many other area colleges and univer-
sities.
Lively was bom in Quebec City
in the primarily French speaking
Canadian province. She has lived in
Texas since the age of five.
Though she spoke no English
when she began school in Corsicana,
Texas, Lively has always considered
herself a Texan first and a French-
Canadian second.
In fact, Lively was so assimi-
lated into American culture when she
reached adulthood that it did not occur
to her that she was not a U.S. citizen
until she applied for a passport to take
a group of high school students on a
trip.
She then applied for citizen-
ship, went through the naturalization
process and received her passport in
time for the trip.
Lively enjoys the opportunity
to work with native French speakers
and foreign language teachers.
She particularly enjoys the
opportunity to travel and speak with
teachers about methodology and
Lively received her B.A. and
M.A. in Education from NTSU. She
is a member of the Texas Foreign
Language Association and the Ameri-
can Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Language. As well, she is
president of the American Associa-
tion of Teachers of French and Portu-
guese.
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funding, Dr. McKinney hopes to have
an artist-in-residence every year.
“This will help make those
programs more visible in the com-
munity, attract talented students into
the fine arts and motivate others who
may be turned on by the arts for
personal reasons or for a career,” he
said.
Although Zhu’s office and stu-
dio will be on South Campus, he will
serve the entire district, Dr. McKin-
ney said.
Jay Adkins, chairman of the
fine arts department on South Cam-
pus, will coordinate the scheduling
of Zhu’s activities throughout the
year.
“I don’t think we could have a
better artist-in-residence,” Dr. McK-
inney said. “Darning loves teaching
students.”
Plans are underway for a pre-
miere concert in late September to
introduce Zhu to TCJC students,
public and members of the fine arts
community.
Identification is required of
students when using any campus
service, according to officials.
Centers like the LRC and CLC
on all campuses rely on student ID to
speed the process of identification.
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