Sunday, May 19, 2013    Contact



¡Viva el español!

                                                
Betty Lotterman
National Board Certified Teacher of World Languages Other than English

Room 227                 Email mailto:Betty.Lotterman@moundsviewschools.org 
Phone:651-621-7238    (Please call between 2:05 and 4:00 p.m. )
Communication Hour     Wednesday, 5:30-6:30
Schedule for 20012-2013
6:50-7:25           office hour
7:25-8:21           Advanced Hybrid Spanish
8:27-9:23           Spanish 2
9:29-10:25         Spanish 2
11:03-11:59       office hour
12:07-1:03         Spanish 1
1:09-2:05           Spanish 1
2:05-4:00           office hours 
 
Congratulations to these winners in the 2012 Festival Quijote.
 
Congratulations to Michael Hoff on his 1st place dramatic video!
 
 
Congratulations to Hanwen Wong, Minu Bhunia, and Carlly Bandt on their 1st place video commercial!
 
Congratulations to Elin Enrooth, Summer Brills,  Alison McLean, and Emily Nelson on their 1st place music video.
 
Congratulations to Alexandra Kraut, Indhirakshi Damodar, and Courtney Kosiak on their 1st place demonstration video!
 

Education

June 1988 M.A. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Major: Hispanic Linguistics

Related Field: Peninsular Literature, Teaching Second

Languages and Cultures

May 1984 B.A. Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa

Major: Spanish

Minor: German

 

Publications

"On Finding Something Perfect" a poem published in Timeless Voices, International Library of Poetry, 2006

"There are Books in Spanish in Our Library?" Minnesota Language Review, Spring, 2007

"Self-Evaluation as a Tool for Students" Minnesota Language Review, Fall, 1997.

“On a Sunday Afternoon in the Andes,” Minnesota Language Review,Spring, 1996.

 Jonah Goes to School, “ Minnesota Language Review, Fall, 1995.

 On Buying a Sundress,” The Banner, February 4, 1992.

 “Love: Noun or verb?” The Banner, April 27, 1987.

 On the Need for a More Worldly Education” Christian Educator's Journal, January, 1987.

 “That Sack of Onions,” The Banner, November 4, 1985


Presentations
Teaching All Students: A Tool Box Approach to Differentiation,  MCTLC Conference, Brooklyn Park, MN, October, 2006
 
Using Pictures to Teach a Thousand Words, MCTLC Conference, Brooklyn Park, MN, October 2006

Ritmo y rima: mano a mano, Central States Conference, March 2003
 
Sabor puertorriqueño, MCTLC Conference, October, 2000
 
The Speaking Section of the AP Exam, AATSP Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August, 2000

 Resources for Teaching about Spanish Speakers in the U.S. ,MCTLC Conference, October, 1999

 Can Johnny Pronounce Spanish, MCTLC Conference, October, 1997

 La Canción de la semana, MCTLC Conference, October, 1996
El día de los muertos, MCTLC Conference, October 1993

Test Critique: The AP Test in the Spanish Language
, MCTLC Conference, October 1991

 El español y el inglés en una bodega de West St. Paul. Conference on Sociolinguistic Research on Spanish in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., University of Minnesota, March 1988,


 Other Activities

President of the Minnesota Council of Teachers of Language and Culture., 2011

Coordinator for the Mounds View School District's Summer School in Mexico

Program from 1996 – 2003

Faculty sponsor for Spanish Club, Amnesty International, and Diversity Council

Coordinator of Festival Quijote, 1993-1998

President of AATSP-Minnesota 1997-1998,2005

Teacher Assistant in the Foreign Language Immersion Program, University of

Minnesota, Summer, 1994

Co-chair of the Program Committee for the MCTLC Fall Conference, 1999-2001

Editor of the Noticiero, 2000
 

Awards Received

Central States Conference on Teaching Languages Teacher of the Year 2007

Minnesota Teachers of Languages and Culture Teacher of the Year 2006

Premio Ricardo Narváez from the MN chapter of the AATSP, 1999 

Goethe Institute Fellowship for study in Leipzig, Germany, 1992

National Merit Semifinalist in 1969.



 
 

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