Home |Sun 3 Jun 2007
The Chronicle newspaper of Goshen, New York reports the Goshen Central School District has been funded by U.S. Department of Education to provide Mandarin Chinese lessons to its sixth-grade students.
GOSHEN —The Goshen Central School District has received the U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Grant, a three-year grant that will allow its sixth-grade students to study the language of Mandarin Chinese.
The program is open to select students and is a full-year traditional foreign language program, delivered via state-of-the art e-learning hardware and software. Classes will be taught by a New York State certified teacher whose primary classroom is located in the Video conferencing Lab at the Orange-Ulster BOCES Harriman Learning Center.
From this location, the teacher will meet with one or two classes at a time for instruction. Materials will be made available to students through a teacher created Web site and blackboard. Students will also meet with their teacher at least once a month. Communication with the teacher will take place during video conferences, via the course management system and through e-mail.
