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STARTALK 2014 Program
“Bridging the Gap through Standards and Technology: STARTALK for the Teachers of Russian”
 
Faculty members in The Department of Asian and Slavic Languages (part of the Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) Irina Kostina, lecturer; Anna Kolesnikova, visiting professor; and Marina Kostina, CEO Wired@Heart have received the third grant from STARTALK, a unit of the federal National Security Language Initiative, for their program “Bridging the Gap through Standards and Technology: STARTALK for Teachers” ($89,932.72).

This summer program (120 instructional hours) starts with a six-week online module on June 23, 2014 and ends with a three-day on-site workshop and conference at the University of Iowa (August 4-6).

The program provides unique professional training for teachers of Russian as a foreign language in the United States. It concentrates on combining set of teaching standards accepted both in the U.S. and Russia for teaching Russian as a foreign language, analyzing the unique issues of teaching Russian to heritage learners, and on continuing to create a virtual library of computer-based learning objects for teaching Russian, extending work on technology and distance learning environment.

We invite high school teachers and professors to participate in our program.
Please contact: Irina Kostina, Ph.D., 319-335-0171, irina-kostina@uiowa.edu. All applications must be received by March 31, 2014.

Kostina, M. [SEELANGS] Call for Russian Teachers and Professors for a Summer STARTALK program. SEELANGS listserv SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, (10 Mar 2014).