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Curriculum Instruction & Accountability

Second Language Instruction County of Kern

A Site of California Foreign Language Project
A California Subject Matter Project

Who Are We?

Teacher leaders from elementary, middle and high school dedicated to:

• offering opportunities for teachers of all levels to enhance their knowledge of the target language, literature and culture
• working collaboratively to support classroom language, literature and culture
• working collaboratively; to support classroom language teachers in improving student achievement and literacy
• establishing a professional home for language teachers
• helping teachers have an impact through leadership roles, partnerships and student achievement.

What do we do?

We present programs that will allow participants to:

• Spend time practicing multiple approaches to learning
• Learning to engage students in content-learning, using the target language as the medium of instruction
• Immerse themselves in contextualized foreign language
• Concentrate on broadening their knowledge of literature and culture
• Keep abreast of language-specific literacy and standards-embedded pedagogy

How do we do it?

In collaboration with teacher leaders, YOU engage in, develop, and implement:

• classroom acitivites to enhance student proficiency
• activities to meet learning needs of students
• reading and writing strategies
• standards-based instructional sequences
• assessment strategies
• techniques of collegial coaching

For additional information please visit California Foreign Language Project (CFLP) website.

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