InTASC STANDARD Ten: Leadership and Collaboration: The teacher seeks appropriate

leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with

learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure

learner growth, and to advance the profession.

Name of Artifact: Socit Honoraire Franaise Constitution

Course: French II

Date: May 2016

ACTFL Standards Addressed: Lifelong Learning: Learners set goals and reflect on their

progress in using languages for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.

Rationale:

The French National Honor Society is a branch of the Bryant High School French Club.

I sponsor both French Club and Bryant High Schools chapter of French National Honor Society.

While anyone Bryant High School Students can join French Club, to join French Honor Society

a student must meet academic requirements and complete the application. The academic

requirements include having an A- GPA in French and a B- overall GPA as well as either being

enrolled in French II or having taken French II. Successful inductee into French National Honor

Society receive a cord to wear at graduation.

French Club sponsors activities to celebrate National French Week, hosts a Mardi Gras

celebration, adopts a child at Christmas, etc. French Club allows me to collaborate with students

outside of class time. When students attend the events that French Club hosts, it demonstrates

their desire to continue learning about the French culture and language that is not motivated by a

grade or some other requirement (Gass, Behney, & Plonsky, 2013). Since the Club is a much

less formal situation than the classroom and the activities are much more varied than what is
possible to do in the classroom, the students who participate in French Club and French National

Honor Society will be able to learn about the culture and language use for situation that are not

be possible in the classroom during the regular school day. These unique situations are likely

increase my students intercultural competence (Brown, 2014). Since meetings are after school,

teachers and administrators have the opportunity to attend special events that the French Club

and French National Honor Society host. One of my students wants to be a doctor, so during one

meeting we explored the work that Doctors without Borders does. The students at the meeting

were not familiar with the organizations work. Exploring cultural organizations may raise

awareness of the issues for which they are providing relief (Shrum & Glisan, 2015). Students

may develop an interest in these issue and attempt to join the efforts to provide relief.

Researching these issues makes them less abstract and moves my students towards seeing that

we are all connected. This may help them become more tolerant and accepting. French Clubs

activities may help them see French as more than just a class. French Club is optional and there

are no grades for the activities that we do. Some of the members of French Club do not take

French. Some of them could fit French into their schedule; others like the activities that we do.

Sometimes they decide to take French the following year because they enjoyed French Club.

References

Brown, H. D. (2014). Principles of language learning and teaching A course in second language

acquisition (6th ed.). White Plains, NY: Pearson.

Gass, S. M., Behney, J., & Plonsky, L. (2013). Second language acquisition An introductory

course (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Shrum, J. L., & Glisan, E. W. (2015). Teachers handbook (5th ed.). United States of America:

Cengage Learning.