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From http://nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/events/startalkworkshop/2017/home

The National Heritage Language Resource Center will be holding a STARTALK workshop for teachers of Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu, with additional spaces available for other less commonly taught languages.

This two-part workshop will help language teachers face the challenge of teaching heritage language (HL) students. The three-week online component opens on June 1, 2017, followed by a five-day face-to-face component (June 26-30, 2017 at UCLA). The online assignments focus on identifying and addressing the linguistic gaps in HL students’ language, differentiated teaching, and teaching mixed classes. The face-to-face session will focus on how to use project-based learning as a useful tool in HL instruction. Accepted participants will be required to complete both online assignments and the face-to-face session. There is no charge for the workshop. A limited number of stipends will cover travel and accommodations for out-of-state participants.

The workshop's goals are for participants to:

1.   Understand the needs of HL learners.
2.   Identify criteria and strategies for developing PBL curricula.
3.   Develop instructional materials that answer the needs of HL learners.
4.   Design projects and select materials that build on HL students’ initial proficiencies and meet both their linguistic and affective needs.
5.   Understand how to structure and pace a project-based unit.
6.   Understand how to select and use authentic materials, and develop real-life activities to accompany them.
7.   Become familiar with the principles of differentiated and macro -based teaching.

For more information about the teacher workshop, please visit http://nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/events/startalkworkshop/2017/home