STARTALK Language Teacher Development Materials

Welcome to the STARTALK Language Teacher Development Materials page. STARTALK is a national initiative that offers creative and engaging summer learning experiences in a number of critical languages for students and professional development opportunities for current and prospective teachers of these languages. Many languages commonly spoken around the world are taught infrequently in US schools. One of STARTALK's key purposes is to increase the availability of language programs for these critical languages. By doing so, we hope to enhance the landscape of language education within the United States.

Over the past few years, STARTALK has grown to over 100 programs nationwide. Yet even as STARTALK continues to grow and expand its language selection, it remains dedicated to reinforcing the very best and latest in language teaching principles.

The Language Teacher Development Materials page includes:

• The Classroom Video Collection, a collection of videos demonstrating STARTALK-endorsed effective practices for language teachers
• The Multimedia Teacher Development Workshop Collection, a collection of web-based training modules that support STARTALK-endorsed effective practices

STARTALK is a project of the National Foreign Language Center, a research institute of the University of Maryland.
National Foreign Language Center • Rivertech Building, Suite 250 • 5700 Rivertech Court • Riverdale, MD • 20737