It’s not too early for teachers to think about summer: Some immersion training opportunities

Summer Institutes for Immersion Teachers

CARLA also offers these popular institutes that are designed specifically for immersion educators:

Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching for Chinese and Japanese
July 21–25, 2014
Presenters: Tara Fortune and a team of veteran immersion teachers
This institute provides novice immersion teachers of character-based languages with the tools and information they need to survive and thrive in the immersion classroom. The institute also includes a two-day session for administrators of immersion education programs for character-based languages.

Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching 

July 28–August 1, 2014
Presenters: Tara Fortune and a team of veteran immersion teachers
This institute provides novice immersion teachers with the tools and information they need to survive and thrive in the immersion classroom. The institute has been reconfigured to offer two teacher sessions simultaneously and an expanded 3-day session for administrators of immersion education programs.

Information

More information is available on the CARLA website at:www.carla.umn.edu/institutes.

Registration will open on January 6, 2014.
To request a copy of a print brochure you can email the CARLA office at:carla@umn.edu.

The institutes have been developed and are offered with the support, in part, of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Language Resource Center program. The summer institutes are co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts.

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