Westwood High School French teacher Anne Pham-Macharia has been honored as the Texas Foreign Languages Association’s 2023 Texas Foreign Language Teacher of the Year.
After joining the District in 2007, Pham-Macharia taught at Cedar Valley Middle School and has been teaching at Westwood High School since 2016. She teaches French III (Advanced), French AP Language and Culture, French IB® standard and higher levels, and French VI, leading the department curriculum development.
Pham-Macharia is highly regarded for fostering authentic communication in her students, encouraging them to apply their language skills in real-world scenarios. Conducting 99% of her instruction in French, she organizes annual student trips abroad to France and Canada and motivates her students to participate in foreign language creative writing contests.
In February, Pham-Macharia will represent Texas at the annual Southwest Conference on Language Teaching in Honolulu, Hawaii. Should she progress to the regional level, she will vie for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Teacher of the Year title in November 2024.
