Delaware’s Mandarin immersion program planning for middle school
Chinese immersion program to expand to Shue-Medill Middle School
Chunyuan Zou teaches a lesson in Chinese to her kindergarten class at Downes Elementary School in 2014. When those students matriculate to middle school in Fall 2019, the Chinese immersion program will expand to Shue-Medill Middle School.
To broaden students’ understanding of culture and the world, Shue-Medill Middle School will offer a Chinese immersion program beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year.
The expansion of Christina School District’s immersion program will come as the district’s first class of immersion students – who started learning Mandarin as kindergarteners at Downes Elementary School – enter middle school.
“Basically, the district started with Downes Elementary School and when they began the program, they tried to look at feeder programs where [students] could go for middle and high school,” said Michele Savage, principal of Shue-Medill. “The district approached me first and I got to be a part of the curriculum development. It’s nice; I had all these years of preparation to get ready.”
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