Fw: Native Language Teachers No Longer Need Certification

[Haley De Korne]

If anyone is interested in reading a bit more about the details of this, I submitted to the 'Spoken First' blog on this topic, and it was posted on October 7th (so you have to scroll down), here:

http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ 

The title is: "Getting Native languages into more classrooms: Teacher certification policies across the U.S. are growing"

Best, Haley


--- On Sun, 10/24/10, Richard Zane Smith <rzs at WILDBLUE.NET> wrote:

From: Richard Zane Smith <rzs at WILDBLUE.NET>
Subject: [ILAT] Fw: Native Language Teachers No Longer Need Certification
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 8:06 PM

From: First Nations & Aboriginal Rights

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Subject: Native Language Teachers No Longer Need 
Certification



  
  
     
      
  
    
      

        
        
           
          
          
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            Native Language 
            Teachers No Longer Need Certification 
            A new law allows high schools to hire 
            tribal elders to teach Native Americans languages, even if they are 
            not certified teachers. Michigan already allows students to learn 
            tribal languages to satisfy the state's high school graduation 
            requirements, but many schools do not have instructors certified to 
            teach Native languages. 

The Hannahville Potawatomi Indian 
            Community in the Upper Peninsula led the push to allow its elders to 
            teach the Potawatomi language in schools. 

The bill signed 
            into law allows experts in a Native American language to teach 
            without teacher certification. That means kids can get credits in 
            Native American languages to fulfill the state's language credit 
            requirement. 
        
           
          
        
          
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