Dr. Patricia Mougel, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus, has been named Minnesota’s French Teacher of the Year by the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), Minnesota chapter.

 

Patricia defines professionalism and dedication. She carefully has crafted her career combining administrative duties with teaching and promoting French language and Francophone cultures. After fifteen plus years serving as Director of Language Instruction, Patricia returned to full-time teaching in the department where she now teaches at the intermediate and advanced levels where she is known to integrate principles of second language acquisition and content-based language instruction, digital literacy, current events, business concepts and environmental students.

Patricia’s colleague, Dr. Benjamin Ngong, says that “Patricia is known as treating her students with great dignity and respect. She has helped the Department of French and Italian create a positive environment that is very student-oriented and focuses on building students’ positive self-confidence in learning the French language through high standards and well-designed instruction.”

Patricia will be honored this spring at the annual AATF – Minnesota Awards dinner. 

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Congratulations, Patricia! We are honored to have you represent us.

 

Your AATF - Minnesota Chapter Executive Board

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