{"id":209,"date":"2018-12-26T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/humanities\/?p=209"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:32:33","slug":"french-professor-named-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/humanities\/2018\/12\/26\/french-professor-named-teacher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"French professor named \u2018Teacher of the Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ls-img-r size-m\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2018\/12\/Anita-Alkhas-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Anita Alkhas\">Every year the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers\u00a0(WAFLT) nominates one teacher from the state for the Teacher of the Year\u00a0award sponsored by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This person exemplifies the best in foreign language teaching and pedagogy.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher selected this year is Anita Alkhas, an associate professor in the French department at UWM. Alkhas has been teaching at the university for 20 years. She has been involved with the Wisconsin association for a long time as the group\u2019s chair for professional development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile much of her work is done behind the scenes, Anita\u2019s commitment to world language education, outreach and advocacy has had a positive impact throughout the state of Wisconsin,\u201d the state association said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Alkhas will represent Wisconsin at the regional level at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Milwaukee in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Claire Hackett, University Relations<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWM French associate professor Anita Alkhas has been named 2018&#8217;s Teacher of the Year by the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers\u00a0(WAFLT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-spotlight","category-spotlight"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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