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This announcement comes from our National Consortium for Teaching about Asia partner, the University of Colorado.

The Middle Kingdom in Middle School

A STARTALK Program on Pedagogy and Practices for Building an Integrated Chinese Language- Culture Course of Study
The University of Colorado Program for Teaching East Asia invites applications for its 2010 STARTALK residential summer workshop for Chinese language teachers. The program is open to native Chinese language teachers in middle school settings throughout the United States. Applications will be accepted on a rolling-admission basis until Friday, May 14, 2010 or until the 20 available openings in the program are filled.

Program Overview

“Middle Kingdom in the Middle School” will focus on Chinese language acquisition pedagogy and related issues, including standards-based instruction, assessment, and curriculum development. A secondary focus of the workshop is on effective language instruction at the middle-school level, with attention to guided instruction in developing integrated, team-taught units in collaboration with other disciplines, and effective strategies for institutionalizing Chinese language within the middle school setting. Guest speakers will provide expertise on articulation issues, hands-on culture activities, and case studies of successful Chinese language-culture programs embedded in the middle school curriculum. Each participant in the workshop will be expected to complete three workshop products: (1) a draft plan for working with teachers of other disciplines in the teacher’s own school building, (2) a draft for a cross-disciplinary team-taught unit on Chinese language-culture to be implemented in the 2010-2011 school year, and (3) a brief review of curriculum materials.

Program Support to Participants

All major costs of workshop attendance are underwritten by the Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) through funding from STARTALK. Teachers selected for participation will receive a $350 stipend to defray costs of travel, weekend meals, and incidentals. The program also covers a double occupancy room in the University of Colorado dormitories and weekday meals. Participants are eligible for a $50 tuition stipend if they elect to take the course for credit through the CU School of Continuing Education. The cost of a two-credit course is $120.
For more information and an application, go to http://www.colorado.ued/cas/tea/startalk_program.html or contact Lauren Collins at 303-735-5120; [email protected].
This program is supported through a grant from STARTALK, a project of the National Foreign Language Center, a research institute of the University of Maryland.