Immersion workshop

Here's a great opportunity to receive intensive training in the basics of immersion language teaching.

Immersion A-Z: Essential Basics for Language Immersion Programs

June 29 through July 1, 2011
(immediately following the American Indian Language Development Institute
(AILDI) 2011)
Tucson, Arizona

presented by

Consortium of  Indigenous Language Organizations (CILO)
Language Immersion for Native Children Program (LINC)


Dear Friend,

This three-day workshop provides an overview of diverse essential elements
that are required for successful planning and implementation of immersion
programs. The workshop provides hands-on experience on language immersion
methods, the proven effective way of transmitting language knowledge from
one generation to the next in a variety of contexts:

At home (Family Language Program)
In the community where an elder works with a learner (Master-Apprentice
Program)
At Day Care Centers where babies are cared for
At Preschool/Head Start where very young toddlers interact with each other
and with caregivers
At schools where young children are formally educated to be active and
contributing members of the community and of the world

Participants will learn how to design and implement immersion teaching,
how to make long range plans for language programs, how to create language
activities, how to produce fun and useful materials for language learning,
and how to assess the effectiveness of the language immersion program.
Deadline to register is April 15, 2011.

For registration form:
www.ilinative.org/cilo/CILORegFormImmersionRev2.9.11.pdf

For more information about CILO or other workshops:
www.ilinative.org/cilo/


LINC is the flagship program of the Indigenous Language Institute,
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, American Indian
Language Development Institute, and Oklahoma Native Language Association,
which, together, formed the Consortium of Indigenous Language
Organizations (CILO). LINC is a program funded by the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation to develop a comprehensive training program for tribal
administrators, teachers, and leaders involved in programs that affect
children ages 0 to 8.