{"id":573,"date":"2011-01-07T10:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=573"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:00:28","slug":"how-to-help-teachers-and-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2011\/01\/07\/how-to-help-teachers-and-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Help Teachers and Schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New NYC Chancellor of schools, Cathleen Black, has already shown herself to be passionate about languages. During her first few days on the job, she articulated a desire for more language instruction, especially Chinese Mandarin.\u00a0 Black sees Mandarin proficiency as a critical skill in our increasingly global economy and wants New York City students to be well prepared.\u00a0 Her interests extend to other less commonly taught languages, and she is also enthusiastic about Korean programs running in Harlem schools: <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/04\/focusing-on-languages-mainly-mandarin\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">(New York Times article)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a company like Transparent Language, the big question is: how do we best support these schools?\u00a0 Certainly, there&#8217;s no substitute for learning language in-person from a native speaker, but technology can do amazing things.\u00a0 We build high-quality language learning programs that can pair with live instruction or be used on its own.\u00a0 And yet, many teachers shy away from technology.\u00a0 Their plates are so full, they lack the bandwidth to explore a new technology.\u00a0 Or the schools&#8217; budgets are so tight, they don&#8217;t have enough computers.\u00a0 Aside from building easy, user-friendly solutions, how do we help support goals like those named by Cathleen Black?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re an educator or linguist, please help us help you.\u00a0 Give us your ideas and feedback!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New NYC Chancellor of schools, Cathleen Black, has already shown herself to be passionate about languages. During her first few days on the job, she articulated a desire for more language instruction, especially Chinese Mandarin.\u00a0 Black sees Mandarin proficiency as a critical skill in our increasingly global economy and wants New York City students to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2011\/01\/07\/how-to-help-teachers-and-schools\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[542801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}