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Barrington, Illinois to get Mandarin immersion program

from the Barrington Patch

Board of Education Accepts Chinese Immersion Grant

On Dec. 7, the Barrington 220 Board of Education accepted a federal grant that will allow Mandarin Chinese language instruction to be taught at the elementary school level.  The new program will begin in the 2011-2012 school year.

Barrington 220 School District is the only district in the state of Illinois, and one of 22 in the entire country to be awarded the $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance program in 2010.

World Languages Department Chairman Todd Bowen said the elementary Chinese immersion program is a unique opportunity for students to develop professional competence in an Asian language. _

The new program will be introduced in January 2011 as a voluntary after school enrichment class for kindergarteners in the district.  Barbara B. Rose Elementary School will be the first to have the full immersion program in place for kindergarten and first-grade classes during the 2011-2012 school year. Chinese language immersion at the elementary level will feed into the existing 6-12 program at the district.

Article here.

 

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