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APPLICATION NO   :   R215G30039 APPLICANT        :   North Dakota Department of 	 	     Public Instruction                      Special Projects                      600 E. Boulevard                      Bismarck, North Dakota  58505 CONTACT PERSON   :   Clarence A. Bina TELEPHONE        :   (701) 328-2098 AWARD TO DATE    :   $694,396 PROJECT PERIOD   :   07/01/93-06/30/96 

English education in North Dakota requires improvement to offset inadequacies from lean resources, geographic distances, rural poverty, and weak certification and recertification guidelines. Targeting English for improvement will assist students to achieve at higher levels and to meet world class standards.

Using recently completed outcomes and benchmark statements for grades 4, 8, and 12, frameworks will be available in North Dakota that are pedagogically appropriate and that emphasize the integration of English into the curriculum. The trainer-of-trainers model will provide a means for increasing the number of teachers who can instruct others so that eventually the developed frameworks and techniques will be used throughout the State.

North Dakota educators, both public and private, K-16, will be encouraged to collaborate a state-wide program to improve English through development of detailed, content-specific frameworks, development and dissemination of certification and recertification guidelines, and a pilot trainer-of-trainers model for teachers of English. Training will be scheduled for teachers to use the new techniques in their own classrooms and to hold workshops for other teachers who can then further disseminate the use of the frameworks and the teaching techniques. School districts will be asked to apply for inclusion and to commit local resources, including administrative time, for the in-house training.

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