Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

These are from CARLA, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota.

If your program is new, it’s a great place for staff and teachers to get the basics. And if your program’s been around for awhile, the new workshop on character literacy (i.e. how to get kids reading in Chinese) is really exciting.

You can see more about this highly respected program at the link below. If your district can’t afford to send teachers, this would be a good one for parents to fund raise for!

http://www.carla.umn.edu/about/carlaupdate.html

Summer Institutes for Immersion Teachers

CARLA also offers these popular institutes that are designed specifically for immersion educators (K–12) and immersion program leaders:

Character Literacy Development in Mandarin Immersion—NEW!
June 20-24, 2016
Presenters: Tara Fortune, Luyi Lien, Haomin Zhang.

Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
July 11-15, 2016
Presenters: Tara Fortune and a team of veteran immersion teachers

Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education: Teacher Collaboration for Integrating Language and Content in Grades 5–12—NEW! 

July 18-22, 2016
Presenter: Roy Lyster

Information

• Find detailed information about each summer institute on the CARLA website at: www.carla.umn.edu/institutes
• Register now at: www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/registration.html
• Check out the stipends and scholarships available: www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/stipends.html
• Learn about the Advanced Practices in Second Language Teaching Professional Development Certificate offered by the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development in collaboration with the CARLA summer institute program: www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/certificate.html

The summer institutes have been developed and are offered with support, in part, from 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.