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ERIC Number: ED292338
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 10
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Rural FLES Models: Teachers and Students Learning a Foreign Language.
Wiley, Patricia Davis
The foreign language education program in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has worked with the Morgan County School System to develop a foreign language experience (FLEX) program in Spanish for that district. The program has three phases: (1) 1 year of in-service instruction in language and methodology for the 28 volunteering K-4 teachers, (2) development of an interdisciplinary curriculum, and (3) intensive language training for 11 lead teachers. The program has become the only district-wide FLEX program in the state, and it is taught by monolingual elementary classroom teachers. Near the end of the initial teacher training period, a group of the participating teachers requested additional Spanish training and the opportunity to design an interdisciplinary curriculum. An off-campus graduate class incorporating both language instruction and curriculum design was created for the interested teachers. The third phase of the program is a combined year-long graduate course for the 11 lead teachers and in-service training for the other 17. The program illustrates how a university and a school district can cooperate to fund, plan, and implement a special linguistic enrichment experience for both classroom teachers and their students. (MSE)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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