NFLRC at Iowa State receives StarTalk Grant!
The National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University received a StarTalk grant for a special professional development institute for Chinese teachers to take place during the summer of 2008, Mentoring and Leadership for K-12 Chinese Teachers.
In this 10-day summer institute, K-12 Chinese teachers will explore key concepts and principles related to mentoring, leadership, and change. They will collaboratively develop standards-based, thematically focused, and culturally rich Chinese teaching materials and experiment with compelling classroom applications of emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, digital storytelling, and wikis. They will learn to use these technologies to disseminate materials and expand their mentoring and leadership to the profession at district and state levels.
Cherice Montgomery and I will be leading the institute, and Weiqing Wang, the Chinese cultural and linguistic consultant and demonstration teacher will be joining our team! Kudos to Marcia Rosenbusch, Director of the NFLRC, on receiving the grant. Marcia continues providing excellent direction to the Center as well as leadership and mentoring to colleagues and fellow world language educators.