Where & When: Summer and during the school year with length ranging from 20 to 40 hours at all CFLP sites throughout the state.
Standards, Content, and Grade‐level: This program is designed for elementary, including immersion programs, and secondary foreign language teachers. (Specific offerings at local CFLP sites will be tailored to particular languages.)
Program Description: Language-specific strands are intended to strengthen both the content knowledge and pedagogical skills of language and culture educators in a specific language. These programs provide high-level, intense immersion in the language and culture and at the same time model effective language teaching strategies that participants are encouraged to use in their own classrooms. However, the main purposes of these language-specific programs are to develop the teacher's subject-matter competency in a target language and culture.
HOW IT MEETS THE STANDARDS: This program is aligned with the Language Learning Continuum and focuses on supporting the participants and teachers that want to deepen their content knowledge of the target languages and cultures they teach, design effective instructional strategies and incorporate State Board-adopted materials in their own teaching.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: For language teachers, high-level immersion in the target language and culture is key to becoming and remaining a subject-matter expert in the languages and cultures they teach. Study and/or travel abroad is not always feasible for induction teachers who often have the greatest need to increase their linguistic competency. These programs provide an accessible alternative, with university-level language immersion experiences designed to increase teachers linguistic and cultural proficiency in the language(s) they teach.
California Foreign Language Project