Who can apply: Students in grades 3-8
Dates: June 25 – July 13, 2018
Times: Mon – Fri (9:00 am – 3:30 pm)
Place: Young Scholars Baldwin Campus
Application Deadline: May 1st, 2018
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Program Highlights
-No fee to participate, just first 40 application to be accepted as we have limited seats
-Ideal for students with no Turkish or little bit of Turkish
-Converse in basic Turkish
-Experience Turkish arts like Ebru (Turkish marbling), Turkish Calligraphy and, basic steps of Turkish Folk dance, learning about Ancient Anatolian Civilizations, Pottery and Ceramic kilns,
-Learn how to make Turkish themed art and craft
-Lunch will be provided (Turkish Style for some days)
STARTALK’s Mission
STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages. STARTALK offers students (K–16) and teachers of these languages creative and engaging summer experiences that strive to exemplify best practices in language education and in language teacher development. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) launched STARTALK in 2006 and delegated executive oversight of the program to the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA, in turn, awarded a contract to the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland (UMD) to act as its subject matter expert in the implementation and administration of the program.
STARTALK is guided by six Principles for Effective Teaching & Learning and has three main objectives:
- To increase the number of students enrolled in the study of critical-need languages
- To increase the number of highly effective critical language teachers in the U.S.
- To increase the number of highly effective materials and curricula available to teachers and students of these critical-need languages
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