CCPCR Census Data Fall 2008

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THE BIG SELL! Each year we are faced with parents and students who have no desire to take Russian because they know so little about it. During 8th grade orientation night at our school I personally speak with 15-18 groups of parents and students and introduce myself to them. I have 3 minutes to make my sell and so far I have had my numbers increase from one class of Russian I to three full sections of 30-32 students. We have to be business minded if our programs are to grow. I'd love to share my experiences with fellow teachers if there is such a chance. I'm best when I do things in person. You may think I'm being too outspoken but I have survived several attempts at being forced out and I am a survivor. Hope I can share my 20 some-odd years of experience with you. I do aplogize for not signing up to the organization. I always manage to misplace mail.

tgordeev@frhsd.com

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Alternate e-mail address: bszulc@verzon.net

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Russian three and four are taught as a combination class. Students are nearly all heritage learners. In 2007 the Freehold Regional High School District offered Russian in five of our six high schools. It is uncertain if Russian 1 will continue to be offered.

3 Feb. 09

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Tania Gordeev has replaced Beverly Ignatowicz, who retired in 2008. (2/7/2009) Russian three and four are taught as a combination class. Students are nearly all heritage learners. We have been told that Russian I will not be offered in our Freehold Regional High School District in the fall of 2008! At present, it is offered in five of our six high schools.

(201) 868-1000

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(201) 295-2800

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You can be a popular teacher & have a decent- size program by not being overly strict. I have a lot of students, who did not do well with other teachers, & they know I am very reasonable & will work with them !The word gets around, & I have had alot of different students(hadicapped, special ed.,slow learners, & even bright kids) They must do the H.W. , but I am very reasonable on written tests,etc, show them films & "mix-it "up. A good sense of humor helps too! I've been teaching 37 yrs. already, am the only Rus. teacher (which is better actually!) & the program has picked up in the last few yrs. too!It helps to be good with the administration too! & be friendly with all !I teach also German.The kids like me, & know Ill be their teacher for Russian. I don't even have to advertise my program in the grammar schools.We are a "urban" school district, near NYC in N.J.

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Program terminated

K-8

(Intro. -6)

Level 1

(Grades 7&8)

SuzkaJ@aol.com

Suzanne.Jouravlev@sparta.org

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As our enrollment has increased, our district has hired a third Russian language teacher who teaches part time in addition to our 2 full time Russian teachers!! We have an excellent introductory program in our district which allows 5th & 6th graders to sample four languages for 2 marking periods each over a two year period - French and Spanish in 5th grade, German and Russian in 6th grade.   Every 6th grader in our middle school will go through the Russian program to get a very basic introduction to the Russian alphabet and language.   These students learn the upper and lower case letters in cursive, random vocabulary words, conversational phrases and vocabulary in line with various themes such as family, sports, colors, numbers, and animals.   In addition, the students are introduced to information about Russian culture and traditions.   At the end of their 6th grade year, each student must choose one of the four languages to study in 7th and 8th grade (a 1 and 1/2 year - level one course). Due to their exposure as 6th graders, many students become interested in this less-commonly taught language and decide to study Russian.   At the end of 8th grade, our students of Russian participate in the "Sparta Middle School Olympiada of Spoken Russian" (a spin off of the ACTR competition, which we are unable to compete in due to our HIGH numbers.) Many, if not most, of these students continue studying Russian at the high school level and are inducted into the Foreign Language National Honor Society during their high school careers.

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Do the Olympiada and go to Russia.Great for enrollment

"Russian Face to Face" Book 1 & 2, supplementing it with selected materials from "Troika", "Russia 2000", "Russian Beginners reader", "Russian Intermediate Reader", "Russian Area Reader", other readers and textbooks.

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