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2012 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE FAQS
Each day of the 2012 Northeast Conference will highlight a specific world language educator focus, celebrating the very special interpretations we alone can give to the concept of GLOBAL IDENTITY!
We are professionals, interculturally competent citizens, linguistically and culturally proficient individuals, and classroom teachers!
Absolutely! We welcome colleagues from all 50 United States and from 10-15 countries around the world each year.
The conference will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in the Harbor East area from Friday afternoon, April 20 until noon on Monday, April 23. The main program of sessions, events, and exhibit area visits will take place on Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22.
Our preregistration fee is $200. It includes:
Lodging, travel, incidentals (including meals on your own), and optional $25 - $75 3-hour workshops (offered Friday afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday) are not included.
Either way, the deadline is March 26, 2012.
Please note: we cannot accept purchase orders.
For each conference attendee, NECTFL incurs about $400 in costs. We charge only $200 preregistration. So ALL rates are by definition “reduced”! We thus do not have "exhibits only" or "one-day only" rates.
However, we do have a special preregistration rate of $75 for full-time students (not, we regret, for teachers who are taking graduate courses part-time) who provide the required documentation of their status.
Yes -- the forms enable us to be sure that each person gets an individual name badge and conference materials. Individual forms help ensure accuracy, too.
You will receive notification that your preregistration has been processed. You may check our website regularly for news and updates. Your conference program, badge, any event tickets or ribbons, and other items you need will be in the packet you pick up at our registration area in the hotel when you arrive for the conference – nothing will be mailed to you ahead of time.
You may register onsite at the conference in Baltimore at a higher rate.
We regret that we cannot refund registration fees, but you are welcome to pass your registration to another person by sending us an email with that person's full name, address, phone number, email, and badge affiliation info. You may register onsite at the conference in Baltimore at a higher rate.
The Baltimore Waterfront Marriott has lowered its room rates from last year! Singles and doubles both are $199 per night (plus tax), and the rooms are quite large (and beautiful!), so sharing works well. There will be a roommate service on our website for those seeking to share a room with a colleague. You can reserve a room online now, and the cutoff is March 26, 2012.
We know this is a tough economy, and we, too, are trying hard to keep costs low. But we think you deserve a beautiful, convenient, friendly place to stay where the entire staff are made aware of your work as world language educators and of your needs during the conference.
We also negotiate a “room block” with the hotel as part of a contract designed to help us offer you outstanding exhibits and meeting spaces, excellent food, and an atmosphere conducive to collegiality and networking. Without a room block, we would have to pay a very high fee to rent this space. However, if the room block is not filled by our attendees, we incur a heavy penalty – which may eventually translate into much higher registration costs for you.
Thank you for your understanding!
SESSIONS are presentations of 60, 75, or 90 minutes scheduled all day long Saturday and Sunday. In late November, a grid showing the times and locations of all sessions will be posted on our website so you can plan the ones you wish to attend. You do not sign up in advance for these sessions – just arrive at the designated room and take a seat! Some session types include:
***Best of State (the session deemed the best at any of our state association conferences)
***Association sessions (sessions offered by organizations like the AATs, NNELL, the MLA, etc.) Exhibitor sessions (sessions presented by our diverse partner companies – publishers, digital lab companies, tour operators, film companies, realia companies, and more – to help you use their products and services to your best advantage)
***Panels, presentations, networking sessions, hands-on sessions
TEACHING LABS are two-hour, highly interactive and hands-on presentations that you will leave with your own ideas, plans and/or materials to use in your own classes. They are held Monday morning only, and you must sign up for them when you preregister, but there is no charge!
WORKSHOPS are three-hour, focused presentations, often highly interactive, that allow you to explore a topic or instructional strategy in depth. They can include activities ranging from guided museum visits to hands-on learning in a computer lab to presentations and discussion of professional issues such as teacher evaluation policies. They are held Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and afternoon, and Sunday morning and afternoon. You must sign up for them when you preregister, and there is a charge of $25 - $75 for each workshop added to the $200 preregistration fee paid by all attendees. You may take as many workshops as you wish for a maximum of five.
Check on the website -- we may also have an app by next spring!