About JoyceAnna

JoyceAnna D’Alessandro, a heritage speaker of Sicilian and Italian, has been a public school teacher for over two decades. Her career includes teaching middle school exploratory through Advanced Placement. She currently teaches both Italian and French in Cherry Hill, NJ. Never having limited herself to “traditional” methods in her classroom, JoyceAnna has now left grammar syllabus teaching entirely behind to fully embrace Comprehensible Input. A blogger, podcaster, TPT teacher-author, and GoogleCertifiedEducatorLevel1, she created a virtual PLN for Italian CI teachers on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/italiancitprs/

Visit JoyceAnna here: https://sites.google.com/view/joyceannadalessandro/home

FORMAL EDUCATION:

  • Rutgers at the Louvre, Paris, France

  • The Cooperative Classroom: Kagan’s Instructional Practices

  • Certificate of Completion for Cours Intensif de Français Institut d’Études Françaises pour Étudiants Étrangers – Aix-en-Provence, France

  • Masters of Education, Foreign Language Rutgers University Graduate School of Education – New Brunswick, NJ

• Phi Delta Kappa International

• Certificate of Proficiency in French

  • Bachelor of Arts, Italian Douglass College, Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ

• Edward J. Bloustein Scholar

• Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Language Honor Society

• Golden Key Honor Society

• Summer Study in Urbino, Italy


TECHNOLOGY CERTIFICATIONS

§ Duolingo Ambassador

§ Edpuzzle Coach

§ Master ScreenCaster

§ Google Certified Educator Level 1

§ District PD Presenter: Google & Beyond for the WL Classroom