AP* and Pre-AP* Summer Institute

Pre-AP* World Languages & Culture Strategies for New and Experienced Pre-AP* Teachers New

In an ever-smaller world, languages are crucial to maintaining communication and building understanding between vastly different cultures. This AP Summer Institute will focus on the strategies necessary to both retaining and enhancing  the study of languages and cultures, at both the middle and high school levels. Participants will learn how to align curriculum in order to develop students’ linguistic and cultural proficiencies; and they will learn to use a thematic approach to instruction based on standards-based strategies for curriculum development. They will also learn how to prepare their students for more advanced language study by examining the best ways to achieve acquisition of a new language and retention of skills. A portion of the institute will be devoted to searching out funding resources for language and cultural studies.

 The Pre-AP World Languages & Culture Strategies institute is directed toward teachers, administrators, AP coordinators, and counselors. Participants should bring questions, best practices, and outlines for scope and sequence language and culture programs of studies.

LEAD INSTRUCTOR:  Beth Bartolini

Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni has taught Italian, Spanish, and Latin language and literature since the 1980s at both the university and the high-school levels. A former Fulbright scholar and twice an NEH fellow, she currently  teaches  languages, AP European History,  AP World History –and the occasional university honors seminar--in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a member of the SAT Italian test development committee; her latest publication is an Italian conversation text. One of her life goals is to help prepare a generation or two of polyglot citizens. 

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