Friday, April 5, 2013
The Arabic instructor comes to town through a program run by the U.S. State Department.
Watertown High School will add a new class foreign language next year - Arabic. The teacher, who will also teach some intro classes at the middle school, comes to Egypt via a U.S. State Department's Teachers of Critical Languages Program. She will be in Watertown for a year, and her salary will be taken care of by the State Department, said Watertown High School Headmaster Steve Watson. "We have a unique opportunity," Watson told the School Committee. "We do not normally get a free teacher for a year." Watson received the good news on Monday. "I have never gotten a letter from the State Department before," Watson said. Since 2006, Critical Languages Program has matched 151 teachers of Arabic and Mandarin with schools in 30 states, …
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
The high school has applied to have a teacher from Egypt instruct classes there and at the middle school.
Watertown school officials have looked at adding a new foreign language to the high school, and they have a shot at doing just that through a program run by the U.S. State Department. The high school is a finalist in the Teachers of Critical Languages Program and, if chosen, a teacher from Egypt will come to town and teach in Watertown, said WHS Headmaster Steve Watson. The program matches schools with teachers of Mandarin Chinese and Arabic - languages the State Department considers as of growing importance. They teach for one year and their salary is covered by the program. The high school currently does not offer classes in any non-European language courses. Both languages were considered, Watson told the School Committee, but they …
Thursday, January 10, 2013
A task force visited programs in other towns and recommends having a class where students are taught in a foreign tongue.
A group of Watertown teachers visited schools in the area which offer foreign language classes for elementary school students, and they like what they saw. The Elementary World Language Task Force recommended to the School Committee that Watertown start an immersion class at one of the elementary schools in the fall of 2014. Other districts, including Holliston, Milton and Millis, offer one or both of two options for foreign language instruction, said Judy Powers, an English as a Second Language teacher at Watertown Middle School. While FLES reaches every student in a school, Powers said the students do not develop the same fluency they do in an immersion program. The program would also require hiring an extra teacher. An immersion …
rena baskin
6:52 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013
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