Fluency Fast Language Classes - Arabic Mandarin French German Russian Spanish Language Classes

How to become a Fluency Fast teacher

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1st Annual Fluency Fast Teacher Training, Denver Colorado
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QUALIFICATIONS

What is a Fluency Fast teacher?

Our current Fluency Fast teachers, Linda Li (Mandarin), Nahed Hazaa (Arabic), Jason Fritze (Spanish), Karen Rowan (Spanish), Diana Noonan (French), Donna Tatum-Johns (French), Beth Skelton (German), Katya Paukova (Russian)

Our teachers are the best in the world. Our teachers have more than 100 years combined experience teaching languages WITH Total Physical Response®, Story Based Methods and other comprehension based methods. They are widely recognized as the best in their field. We didn’t train them. We found them. And we convinced them to work for us because they are the most talented, engaging and experienced Comprehension based methods teachers in the world. Think we’re exaggerating? We fly our Mandarin teacher in from China. When she moved to Bangkok, we flew her in from there. Now she's moving to Saudi Arabia. We fly our Arabic teacher in from Egypt. All of our teachers have presented at National Comprehension based methods conferences between 2000 and 2007. 5 of our teachers are published authors.

What is your background and experience with Comprehension based methods?

Have you attended Comprehension based methods workshops and National conferences? Are you already an expert at comprehensible input, applying Comprehension based methods methods in a classroom and advanced Comprehension-Based techniques? Do you have a degree in education or a language? Do you have teaching experience? Then you might be perfect for Fluency Fast.

Do you support the mission of Fluency Fast?

We don’t want to just teach languages to adults. We want to teach large classes to lots of people. We want so many people to learn another language that it begins to tip the balance and we become a planet of people who can communicate with each other. We want adults to get over the silly notion that learning languages is hard or that it’s not important. And we want it to be inexpensive. And we want them to be so intoxicated by their first taste that took place in a very short period of time, that they’ll keep learning the language until they are experts.

MISSION: The mission of Fluency Fast is to create and sustain a movement that causes a global shift in consciousness by transforming communications among individuals, communities, and countries and inspiring people to use language as a tool to build bridges with other cultures. Our goal is to dispel the myth that learning languages is difficult and to inspire people to have fun learning Arabic, French, German, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish, easily, inexpensively, effectively and in a brief period of time.

Would you like your colleagues? ;-)

Very important. We really like each other.

What language do you teach?

Although ultimately our vision is to teach lots of languages, Spanish is what supports us financially. Our other languages are growing. If you teach Spanish and speak it well, we’re more likely to need you.

HOW TO APPLY

Should I come to the Denver Language Institute and Fluency Fast Teacher Training?

Do you have very strong language skills?
Have you had previous Comprehension-Based Methods training?
Do you have the time to invest in continuous training?

The Denver Language Institute and Fluency Fast Teacher Training, July 13-17, 2009

1. Monday through Thursday, take one Fluency Fast class in a language you don't know. Sit in on a Fluency Fast class in the language you teach. Additional activities are neither required nor recommended. (movies, immersion dinners)

2. Participate in coaching and training sessions throughout the conference. Create coaching opportunities with other trainees and practice individually. Participate in Friday's coaching workshop. 8:30-3:30

3. Prepare and teach a lesson in your target language.

4. Read the books on the required reading list prior to attending.

Registration deadline for the instructor training is May 31st. No applications will be accepted after that date.

We aren’t always hiring and we don’t always need new teachers, but we have recently acquired new contracts that make the demand for our classes higher than the supply we can offer with our current staff. We are a growing company, and as we continue to grow we will need more teachers who believe in our mission and want to contribute to it as it germinates.

We intend to hire SOME of the teachers who attend the training to teach classes in their own communities. The teachers will assist with publicity and will provide a free or in-kind location to present the classes. (Their living rooms, their school or their church). We will provide publicity on the web site and will include the class in our email publicity. After the class, the teacher will provide us with evaluations and a video clip of the class. All teachers agree to continue with annual training.

Teachers who complete the Fluency Fast training can teach their own classes using the same model, but not the Fluency Fast name. As we continue to grow, we anticipate adding more teachers to our staff. Although 50 teachers are invited to participate in this year's training, and all are encouraged to use their new skills in the classroom this year, we will hire only 10 for our pilot expansion.

What’s the difference between teaching for Fluency Fast and teaching in a year long classroom?

There are a lot of them. Comprehension-Based Methods training helps build a foundation, but adults are different in terms of their reasons for taking languages, their baggage, their attention spans, their issues, their ability to retain, the effect their age has on their ability to retain, what will make them promote a class versus what will make them ask for their money back….

How do I get trained? What if I want to do this down the road a few years. What should I be doing now?

Take Fluency Fast classes in languages you don’t know
Get Comprehension based methods training
Attend the Fluency Fast training seminar

HOW DOES IT WORK?

What kind of support do I get as a Fluency Fast teacher?

Who provides the curriculum?

We do. Our teachers write a new curriculum each year.

Who does the publicity?

We do and the host does.

Can I teach similar courses without being a Fluency Fast teacher?

If you haven’t done Fluency Fast training, yes you can teach an adult language class. In fact, we encourage it. We want tons of adults to learn other languages. BUT, you can’t call it “Fluency Fast.”

Can I use the curriculum?

If you use it exactly as it was published and credit us and the teacher who wrote the curriculum, yes. Otherwise, no.

Can I use the same publicity?

No. Not unless you are working for Fluency Fast.

Required reading list:

TPR is More Than Commands at All Levels, Seely and Romjin
Fluency Through TPR Storytelling, Seely and Ray (BRING TO SEMINAR)
Learning Another Language Through Actions, Asher
The Read-Aloud Handbook, Trelease
The Power of Reading, Krashen
The Natural Approach, Krashen and Terrell
TPRS in a Year! by Ben Slavic (www.benslavic.com) (BRING TO SEMINAR)
Foreign Language Education the Easy Way, Krashen

Language Classes by Fluency Fast

Arabic, Mandarin, French, German, Russian, and Spanish Courses

How to become a Fluency Fast teacher

Qualifications
How to apply for Denver Training
1st Annual Fluency Fast Teacher Training, Denver Colorado
How does it work?

Language Classes by Fluency Fast

Arabic, Mandarin, French, German, Russian, and Spanish Courses

How to become a Fluency Fast teacher

Qualifications How to apply for Denver Training 1st Annual Fluency Fast Teacher Training, Denver Colorado How does it work?

Qualifications
How to apply for Denver Training
1st Annual Fluency Fast Teacher Training, Denver Colorado
How does it work?