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CLASSRoad-STARTALK 2024: Professional Growth for Critical Languages Through Culturally Responsive Practices  CLASSRoad-STARTALK Summer 2024  teacher training program will kick-off in February of 2024. The course is fully online, free of cost, and geared towards teachers of Arabic, Chinese, Korean, P …


CLASSRoad-STARTALK 2023: Advancing Language Learning Through Professionalism CLASSRoad-STARTALK Summer 2023  teacher training program is now in progress. The course is fully online, free of cost, and geared towards teachers of Arabic and Chinese languages.  Don’t miss out on joining a dynamic profes …


Application Window Open!CLASSRoad is currently welcoming applications for its Summer 2021 STARTALK teacher training course! The course is geared towards teachers of Arabic, Chinese and Persian. We hope you will apply to join us in Summer 2021 as we cover new TELL Domains – different than what we cov …


CLASSRoad-STARTALK Winter 2021: Planning Authentic & Engaging eTeaching Winter 2021 Application Window Now Closed! The course is fully online, free of cost, and geared towards teachers of Arabic, Hindi, Urdu and Chinese languages.  We hope you will apply to join us  in Winter  2021 as we cover n …


The application window for this course is now open! Join us again as we focus on new TELL domains. Click the link below to apply:  2019 CLASSRoad STARTALK summer program application We hope you will apply to join us this year! June 7th – July 15th, 2019 STARTALK: Planning for Authentic, Interactive …


This course is full and applications are no longer being accepted. We hope you will apply to join us next year!  June 18th – July 17th STARTALK: Planning for Engaged Language Learning We are excited to welcome Nicole Naditz, 2015 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year, as this year’s lead instructor. Sh …


This course is now complete. Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook for announcements of new courses! Orientation Week:    June 19th – 25th Online Instruction:  June 26th – July 23rd We welcome experienced Arabic, Chinese and Persian language teachers who are ready to engage together in an excitin …


Expanding upon last year’s successful program, CLASSRoad’s 2016 fully online STARTALK Teacher Program will provide an opportunity for intermediate and master Arabic, Chinese and Persian language teachers to focus on the TELL Learning Tools LT1 (a-c) criteria, building their ability to identify, desi …


June 20-July 28, 2016 “Sahtain” is a fully-online five-week STARTALK student program (June 20-July 28) that provides an engaging summer learning opportunity to high school juniors & seniors and freshman undergraduates. The learning experience will involve self-paced online daily work (asynchrono …


Online Professional Development for Arabic and Chinese Instructors The TELL Project is based on research that shows that the greatest factor in student achievement is an effective teacher. TELL provides a blueprint for effective world language teaching through key practices and behaviors of model wo …


This STARTALK program is designed for K-16 world language instructors who have prior knowledge and experiences related to blended/online teaching. The program emphasizes the STARTALK TELL Alignment (STELLA), an evolving framework to increase Teacher Effectiveness in Language Learning (TELL). It is p …


CLASSROAD ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 4-week Online Course for World Language Teachers March 29 – April 26, 2014 This online course is based on CLASSRoad’s highly successful 2013 STARTALK summer teacher training program. If you missed it last summer, now is your chance to enroll in a unique prog …


Are you interested in:  Furthering your technology literacy skills for teaching world languages?  Designing instruction content in order to teach online and in blended contexts? Delivering and assessing ACTFL standards-based learning using digital tools and strategies? Imparting a range of 21st cent …


Are you interested in the pedagogical principles for teaching languages in the digital age? Are you interested in learning how to set up an effective technology environment for teaching Arabic and Persian? Are you interested in designing interactive Arabic/Persian language learning around online too …


Building on our previous workshops on Teaching Arabic thru the Communicative approach and Teaching Arabic thru Content Based Instructions , this years workshop will bring you the  “best practices in Arabic teaching” as presented in real classrooms. The program addresses a broad yet carefully selecte …


The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive training to the methodology and best practices of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. The online workshop covers Arabic teaching methodologies as implemented in real classrooms. This online workshop will equip participants as Arabic language te …


Very often Arabic language teachers find themselves needing content knowledge to teach certain subjects in Arabic. The online portion of the class will provide lectures on various subjects and thereby increase teachers’ repertoire of knowledge, confidence, and quality of instruction. It will also he …


The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive training via introduction to the theory and methodology of teaching Arabic as a foreign language.  This online workshop will equip participants as Arabic language teachers to enhance their teaching quality and performance in the classroom.  Partic …