COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O. BOX 2120
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23218-2120
PRINS. MEMO NO. 30
April 16, 2002
ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE/SECONDARY
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TO: |
Principals |
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FROM: |
Patricia I.
Wright Assistant
Superintendent for Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Web-Based
Resources for Teaching English and History and Social Science through Foreign
Language |
The Virginia Department of Education is pleased to
announce an initiative for developing Web-based instructional resources with
connections in foreign language, English, history and social science. These instructional activities will be
developed correlating the Standards of Learning for French, German, Latin, and
Spanish with those in English and history and social science and will include
instructional models for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Middle and high school principals are encouraged to identify foreign language teachers who are already connecting their instructional activities in foreign language with the disciplines of English or history and social science. Please encourage teachers to submit activities that correlate the Foreign Language Standards of Learning with ninth-grade English, eleventh-grade English, World History and Geography I or II, and/or U. S. History. If the activity proposal submitted is approved for inclusion in the final document, participants will receive a letter of verification for 15 hours of participation that may be submitted to their school divisions for re-certification consideration. Teachers whose instructional activities are included in the final product will also be acknowledged for their contributions.
Copies of the template, instructions for submitting the activities, and two sample instructional activities are attached:
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/administrators/principals_memos/2002/ems030a.doc
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/administrators/principals_memos/2002/ems030b.pdf
Instructional activities must be submitted by June 25, 2002, to Faye Rollings-Carter (mailto:flsol@mail.vak12ed.edu), associate director of foreign language and ESL, at (804) 225-2593.
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