Dr. Chelsea Tanous
M.A. in French, Ph.D. in Education
High School Teacher of French Honors and International Baccalaureate French
Department Chair for World Languages
Category: teaching
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Leading Learning Awards
Mobile County Public Schools students, educators, schools and community partners were recognized for “Defying Gravity” at the 12th annual Learning Leading Awards at Murphy High School. MCPSS Website It was wonderful to attend this event and to see the hard work and dedication of these students and fellow educators being rewarded. The county released a… Read.
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2026 Teacher of the Year
Last week, in the middle of my French III class, a camera crew walked into my classroom closely followed by members of my high school and county administration, and then my husband. They surprised me with the announcement that I have been selected as Mobile County’s 2026 High School Teacher of the Year. I am… Read.
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WP Davidson Teacher of the Year
I’m absolutely floored that I was chosen to represent Davidson High School as Teacher of the Year for 2026. This is my fifth year teaching high school, and it’s exactly as challenging a profession as you would imagine, if not more so. During my first year, every work day was an intense strain to my… Read.
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Global Studies, Post-Elections
I’ve passed the baton of the Global Studies course to a colleague for this quarter. However, my colleague asked me to substitute for her on two days, and it so happened that the material to be discussed on these days included the text I was the least proud of creating from the last two years… Read.
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Biology Workshop Completed
The Fall 2016 Biological Topics in French pilot workshop has ended. The two student groups presented their excellent collaborative final projects in a session attended by instructors and faculty of the Department of French and Italian at UCSB. To see PDF files of the students’ final presentations, follow this link. The following are student comments from… Read.
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Biological Topics in French
The Department of French and Italian at the University of California at Santa Barbara has been awarded a Rosati Instructional Improvement Grant for the purpose of creating a discipline-specific French language workshop in Biology to launch in Fall 2016. I am excited to announce that I will be working under the guidance of the Chair… Read.
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French for Global Studies
In the Department of French and Italian at UC Santa Barbara, French 6 is the course that rounds out the end of the second-year French sequence, in which students complete a review of French grammar. The course emphasizes speaking, reading, and writing through study of French and Francophone history, politics, language policy, and culture within a global… Read.
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French Talent Night 2016
In Winter 2016, the Department of French and Italian sponsored the first French Talent Night at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The French Talent Night was conceptualized as a way to provide a new cultural event to students of French at UCSB, and to allow them the opportunity to express themselves in a… Read.
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