Helpful Hints for Starting a Program
1. Research educational benefits of early language learning specific to your district: increased cognitive development, increased language proficiency, 21st century skills and global awareness
2. Assess community support: conduct surveys, communicate benefits to employers in the future, explain how languages are currently incorporated into curriculum
3. Choose a language (or languages): based on local community, global necessity
4. Research different types of programs: content-related, content-based, partial immersion, total immersion, dual immersion
2. Assess community support: conduct surveys, communicate benefits to employers in the future, explain how languages are currently incorporated into curriculum
3. Choose a language (or languages): based on local community, global necessity
4. Research different types of programs: content-related, content-based, partial immersion, total immersion, dual immersion
Resources
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From the National Network for Early Language Learning
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