About twenty-five people,
including college students from Hunter and beyond, secondary
school teachers, and Hunter faculty gathered for our first
National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week event. We advertised
through e-mails to Hunter Classics majors, announcements in our
classes, e-mails to area college professors and secondary school
teachers, and postings to LatinTeach, the Classics List, and the
New York area Classics website.
As Director of Hunter's MA in the
Teaching of Latin program, I gave some basic information on
teaching Latin at the secondary school level (and how it is like
and not like teaching at the college level) and two current
secondary school Latin teachers, Timothy Flannery, who received
his MA from Hunter and has been teaching for several years and
Jonathan Yee, a current student in our MA program and a new
teacher this year, shared their perspectives on Latin teaching.
We handed out information about
New York State Latin certification and Hunter's MA, which
includes NY State certification. All participants received
promotional pencils with Latin inscribed, e.g., SPQR, Carpe
Diem, Ad Astra Per Aspera. The mini-grant allowed us to buy the
pencils, do xeroxing of materials, and serve refreshments. The
session was scheduled for one hour, but some people were still
talking informally long after that hour was up!
--Ronnie Ancona
The following pictures were taken
at our event.
Picture Number 1: partial view of
the audience, including current Hunter MA student and future
Latin teacher, Marie-Therese Mudd
Picture Number 2: pictured from
left to right, Timothy Flannery, Latin teacher at Packer
Collegiate Institute, Ronnie Ancona and William Mayer, faculty
in Hunter's MA program, Jonathan Yee, Latin teacher, The Masters
School
