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Date: 14 Mar 2011
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Subject: 2011 STARTALK teacher training at NYU

New York University
 
Summer Intensive Teacher Training Program
 
Arabic, Dari, Persian and Turkish
 
 June 13-24 2011
 
Description
 
This teacher-training workshop, funded by a STARTALK grant from the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland is an intensive ten-day residential program designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of school, community and college teachers of Arabic, Dari, Persian and Turkish. It creates a. Participants learn the most up-to-date student-centered, project and performance-based, standards-based teaching methodologies in a learning-by-doing environment. They are required to develop, observe and critique classroom procedures, strategies and teaching techniques. The program includes a cultural component whereby participants learn how to use the resources available in the community environment. The program is based on a state-approved course which is a part of the regular curriculum of the Master’s program in Foreign Language Teaching at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, modified for the needs of the seminar. It is offered as a credit or non-credit option.

Admission

The program will admit a total of twenty participants with language proficiency at the Advanced to Superior level on the ACTFL scale. Applicants need to submit:
a) STARTALK application form
b) C.V.
c) Filled-out questionnaire
d) A statement of purpose in English and in Arabic, Dari, Persian and Turkish.
 
Curriculum
 
The workshop will be held from 13 through June 24 from Monday through Friday. It runs for five hours daily (9:00 am -3:00 pm.) It includes nine work days and one field-trip day. Every session consists of interactive presentations of a theoretical framework by a second language acquisition specialist and of hands-on language-specific applications supervised by language specialists. The language-specific activities address communicative ways of teaching literacy skills, register use and use of authentic materials, as well as the designing of culture-based authentic and quasi-authentic activities. The participants will observe and discuss video-taped classes.

Credit and Fees

The program provides thirty contact hours of classroom instruction and twenty contact hours of field experience, equivalent to a one-semester course.  Participants can elect to take it as a continuing education course or a credit-bearing one.  All participants receive a final grade and a transcript from NYU. The program aims to recruit and support instructors at small colleges and departments, and community schools and organizations. It provides training and network information to members of the heritage community with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and superior or higher language skills considering a career in the language-teaching field. It is also an opportunity for practicing school teachers of South Asian/Middle Eastern descent who teach other disciplines to consider developing an additional skill in teaching their native language and eventually to pursue a foreign language teaching certificate. The continuing education course tuition is $900 plus $20 registration fee (The STARTALK grant covers $700 per person.) Credit registration information is available upon request. 

Facilities

Classes are held on the NYU campus in Greenwich Village in classrooms equipped with audio-visual aides and internet-connected computers loaded with Arabic, Dari, Persian and Turkish fonts. Out-of-town participants in need of accommodation will reside at the NYU residence halls, which are conveniently located on campus. Accommodation, learning materials and textbooks, breakfast, lunch and coffee break expenses are covered by the grant.
                        
For more information:
E-mail:  startalk.nyu at nyu.edu
Tel.:      609-275-1968
Or visit: www.scps.nyu.edu/startalk
 
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Prof. Nader K. Uthman
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies 
New York University
50 Washington Square South 
New York, NY 10012

T 212.998.8919 - F 212.995.4689
nader at nyu.edu

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