CCPCR Census Data Fall 2004

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Students in Brighton cannot elect to take Russian before grade 9. It is interesting to note that it now seems to be an appealing option to some students as an elective in grade 11 or 12 when they feel they have "had enough" of another foreign language and want a change. Also interesting to note that the number of heritage learners in the program has declined.

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Please help with info!

Face to Face I,II for levels 1-2; levels 3-5: Russia Today, Temp; Chekhov Humorous Stories, Crime Punishment

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Russian Levels 1 and 2 were not
offered this year; MAY be offered agaiin in
future...

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Neither this e-mail address (as given in the 2001 ACTR directory), nor the address azarymesserer@hotmail.com, used last year, is currently functioning

Please help: info needed!

Self-written text

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Trojka, Level 1,2 Chto vy ob etom dumaite. level 5; Russkaja literatura, Level 6

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Stella Verbitsky;

Ms (1st name not given) Braginskaya

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Total number was 300 in levels 3-6 last year. Need info!

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Please note the new e-mail address.

My Level I class earns high school credit. It consists of 18 7th graders adn 6 8th graders. My Level II class has 10 8th graders.

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Program Terminated

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Romulus Central School includes approximately 200+ Russian language students, grades
3-12. Students in grades 3-6 study Russian language 1/2 year, Spanish language 1/2 year. Grades 7-12
study Russian language full-time.
In the 2001-02' school year, Romulus's first year ever with a Russian Language/Studies Program, 25
students from grades 7-10 are currently participating.

Face to Face levels 1&2, Golosa level 3, Russian Grammar Stillman-level 4-5; V Puti-level 5

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Within the program, we have KATHRYN BURGESS teaching in the
Junior High school (7 grade exploratory and 8 grade Level 1 classes),
SARAH DETMER teachers 9 grade students (Level 2) and 10 grade students
(Level 3). Anna Shkaf teaches the remaining Level 3 class and also 11 and 12 grades (Level 4
and 5). Our Foreign Language supervisor, GALINA KATS, teaches one class of 7 grade
students in Junior High school.

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Martin Doyle and Sophia Buyanovsky
have retired.

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The entire kindergarden in the district takes Russian (approx. 500 children). : I use mostly teacher prepared materials, and have developed a communicative curriculum based on the New York State Regents Standards.   Students are actively involved in many projects and special assignments, for example Russian 2 students have prepared and presented a puppet show using Snow White in Russian.

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UNIS has earned the reputation as the school for languages,
because of the range of languages offered, the program of study, and
the caliber of its native language teachers, all of whom are
professional teachers in their countries and very often trained also
as second language teachers.
A strong emphasis is placed on all of the communication skills
(listening, speaking, reading and writing) as well as on functional
language within a cultural context. The teachers use all of the latest
second language teaching techniques in their classrooms (audio and
video tapes, films, magazines, Internet resources, storytelling,
skits, and dramatizations) to encourage active participation from
their students. Teachers also develop good second language acquisition
study habits and skills in their students.
The program of study views proficiency in more than one second
language not merely as a tool for communication, but also as an
important means of realizing the goal of world citizenship. One of the
goals of the Modern Languages program is for students to gain
knowledge and understanding of another culture on "its own terms," or
through the target language. We hope, too, that students will become
life-long learners of culture and language.In order to meet graduation requirements at UNIS, a student must have
four consecutive years of study on the high school level in one of the
eight languages offered, or be able to join a language class at the
high school level.
UNIS prepares students for the International Baccalaureate exams at
three different levels: A1 or Mother Tongue, A2 or near-native
fluency, and B or second language.

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I am so sorry to report that my school (Vestal CSD) has chosen to end its Russian program.  I think the official reason was budget cuts.  They are in the process of phasing out the program which had extended from 6th through 12th grade.  I believe that there are currently Russian classes from grades 9-12. 
 
Sadly, our numbers were pretty good too.  Not consistently, but with enough advertising, we were able to keep some decent class sizes.  (Current 9th graders had started as 48 students in 6th grade, current 8th graders (no longer taking Russian - had to switch to Spanish) were approximately 21).  I am not sure of the numbers in the upper grades.
 

Face to Face I, II

Russian as We Speak It III

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Newly-corrected e-mail address

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We have only a FLEX Plan at Warring

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We have only a FLEX Plan at Warring

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Please help with info! We have learned from another source that 40-45 students were enrolled in four levels, but the breakdown by levels has not been given. These students have not been included in the statistics, but the school and teacher have been counted.

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