Can you imagine

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• Can you imagine?
• What would it take for us to prepare our students
  for the world they will soon be running?

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International Education

• Prepares students for todays worldthe need for
  it already exists.
• Prepares students for the world of tomorrow.
• Requires deep understanding of other cultures,
  perspective-taking, and the ability to interact
  effectively with people of other cultures.

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A Vision of International Education

• -Students study literary genres which includes
  reading texts in a foreign language
• -In a US history course, students read about
  events using authentic sources in other languages
• -Students fulfill community service requirements
  in ethnic language communities locally or abroad
• -Students are actively use their foreign language
  in internships in business or government agencies
  
• -A course in comparative political and economic
  systems requires readings from authentic
  documents. Students who have studied several
  different languages jigsaw to report their
  findings.

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A Vision of International Education

• Allows students to gain cultural understanding
  and perspective taking through direct access to
  the culture
• Authentic documents
• Interactions with native speakers/culture bearers
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
• IS CRITICAL TO THIS VISION

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Exemplary International Education Programs The
Language Component

• International education is incomplete without a
  strong foreign language component.
• A world class education means providing our
  students with an education comparable to the best
  in the rest of the world. That requires foreign
  languages as part of the core curriculum.

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Exemplary Foreign Language Programs

• Are aligned with National Standards
• Ensure that language learning is inseparable from
  cross-cultural understanding
• Address the key elements that research has shown
  make a difference in language learning

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Variables That Matter in Language Learning

• Time
• Intensity and Engagement
• Authentic tasks involving meaning and purpose
• Interaction
• Cross-cultural experiences

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Some Approaches to Exemplary Programs

• Time Programs need to start early, and meet
  frequently enough for long enough to provide
  sufficient contact hours to result in useable
  proficiency
• Immersion
• Intensive FLES
• Content-based FLES
• FLES programs that increase contact time and
  intensity over the years

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Contact Hours and Language Learning

• DLI
• Spanish 240 hours (8 weeks)
• Chinese 480 hours (16 weeks)

• High School
• Carnegie Unit
• 150 contact hours (180 days X 50 minutes)
• 150 days X 50 minutes 125 hours

• Elementary school total immersion dual language
• 180 days (?) X 5hours
• 900 hours

• FLES
• 60 mins. per week X40 weeks 40 hours
• 150 mins. per week X 40 weeks 100 hours

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Variables That Matter in Language Learning

• Time
• Intensity and Engagement
• Authentic tasks involving meaning and purpose
• Interaction
• Cross-cultural experiences

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A Few Old Adages

• We have done so much with so little for so long,
  that we are qualified to do anything and
  everything with nothing.
• You get what you pay for.
• If its worth doing, its worth doing well.

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What does it take to build an exemplary program?

• Pay attention to the critical variables that make
  a difference.
• Provide sufficient resources
• Time
• Excellent teachers or alternative instructional
  delivery systems
• Instructional materials
• Sometimes, these resources require

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Doing More With Less

• 1.Consider program models that increase contact
  time and intensity over the years.
• 2. Integrate language with content instruction.
• 3. Consider highly intensive (and low cost!!)
  models for those who might opt for them
• 4. Consider dual language programs for meeting
  the needs of English language learners while
  providing foreign language learning for English
  speakers

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Exemplary Programs Recognize One Size Wont Fit
All

• Addressing the preferences of diverse
  stakeholders
• Addressing the needs of diverse learners
• Addressing national, state, and local needs
• Providing cognitive and academic benefits to all

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Pipelines Exemplary Programs That Can Maximize
Your Investment

• Pipelines
• Are selective selected by parents and/or
  students
• Are real-life examples of what can be
  accomplished
• Serve as hothouses for innovation
• Offer diverse languages and serve diverse
  populations

• Are carefully articulated to lead to advanced
  level proficiency
• Provide significant incentives for all
  participants at every level
• Include opportunities for selected learners to
  enter the pipeline at specified points
• May include or prepare students for
  cross-training in additional languages

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Creating An Exemplary State

• Education a state responsibility
• Exemplary education a state responsibility

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Steps Toward An Exemplary StateThe New Jersey
Story

• Moving toward excellence
• Foreign language mandate
• Interest in international education
• Extensive opportunities for high quality
  professional development

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Where To From Here?

• Ensure resources are aligned with goals
• Develop accountability measures

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Ten Things To Do Tomorrow

• Declare foreign language learning a priority for
  schools in your state.
• Require that international education programs
  include a foreign language component.
• Include quality foreign language programs as a
  criterion for school report cards.
• Base merit or scholar diplomas on demonstrated
  proficiency (or, at least 6 years of foreign
  language study).
• Encourage charter or magnet schools with a
  foreign language focus.

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Ten Things To Do Tomorrow(continued)

• Make foreign language proficiency an entrance and
  exit requirement from state-supported
  postsecondary institutions.
• Establish a Governors Academy (academic year or
  summer).
• Facilitate certification and hiring processes to
  expand the teacher pool.
• Require that teacher preparation institutions
  include language proficiency for elementary
  certification.
• Get the state PTA, school leaders and school
  boards to work toward a national policy that
  promotes language learning in our schools.

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The Educators 11th Commandment

• THOU SHALT
• DO IT WELL