Students teaching Spanish to preschoolers
Camp Ernst Middle School students got the chance to practice their skills by helping a daycare teach Spanish to preschoolers.
From high poverty to the globe, via world languages
Harlan County's Emmanuel B. Anama-Green Jr. dares his students to dream big.
Students use folklore to connect cultures
Librarian Jessica Holmes is helping her students collect stories from students around the world as part of a Student Technology Leadership Program project.
Chinese Guest Teacher Program applications due
Apply now to host a Chinese guest teacher for the 2016-17 school year. Since 2007, the College Board Chinese Guest Teacher Program has placed more than 1,000 visiting teachers in hundreds of schools nationwide. All guest teachers are qualified, experienced teachers from China. After a rigorous selection and training process, they serve as full-time Chinese language instructors in U.S. schools. [...]
Welcome to the world languages page
Alfonso de Torres Núñez is the world languages consultant at the Kentucky Department of Education.
Fayette French teacher wins world languages award
Laura Roché, a French teacher at Beaumont Middle School (Fayette County) is the 2015 recipient of the Kentucky World Language Association Outstanding Teacher Award. She received the award Sept. 26 at the KWLA annual conference in Louisville. Roché is in her 24th year of teaching French. She has spent the past six years at Beaumont Middle after having taught at [...]
Kentucky World Language Association conference set
Registration is open for the Kentucky World Language Association’s annual conference Sept. 24-26 at the Ramada Plaza Louisville Hotel and Conference Center in Louisville. The conference will include professional development sessions and keynote speaker Nicole Naditz, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ 2015 Teacher of the Year. Click here for more information.
Resources for digital format of language curriculum
Middlebury Interactive offers resources to help launch, expand or transition current language curriculum to a digital format with K-12 courses are developed by academics using Middlebury College pedagogy and teaching methodology. Courses integrate communication, culture, connections, comparisons and communities to immerse students in their target language and can be used fully online, in a blended learning environment or as supplemental [...]
Next Generation Academies for Arts Integration: World Languages and the Arts
For the third consecutive summer KDE is partnering with The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts to offer Next Generation Academies for the Integration of Arts and World Languages. June 17-21 Integrating the Arts and World Languages Languages: Spanish and Japanese Location: Jesse Stewart Elementary School, Madisonville June 24-28 Integrating the Arts and World Languages Languages: Spanish and French Location: [...]