Washington Township High School Selected for Participation in NJDOE Initiative
in World Languages Reform

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP –  Washington Township High School has been selected to participate in the New Jersey Department of Education’s initiative “New Jersey’s Model for High School Reform in World Languages: Building a Linguistically and Culturally Competent Workforce.”  The program, which runs from September 2009 through June 2013, will enable the school’s world languages staff and students to participate as a pilot school in a state effort to improve world language instruction.  The goal of the pilot is to allow for a greater number of students to achieve higher levels of foreign language proficiency for use in the global workplace.   

District World Languages Supervisor Cathy Moncrief will serve as the on-site coordinator of the program.  WTHS staff members will receive high-quality, sustained professional development that will include training and improved methods to enhance world language performance.  Students will be assessed for proficiency levels at specified intervals during their four years of high school.

“I am delighted that we have been chosen to be a participant in the NJDOE’s four-year initiative,” Moncrief said. “This pilot will afford us the opportunity to focus on having our students reach a higher level of proficiency in their chosen World Language. The state is providing us with an outstanding format that will benefit our department immensely.”

WTHS currently offers Beginning I, Beginning II, Intermediate I, Intermediate II, Advanced and Advanced Placement courses in French, German and Spanish.  The school also offers Chinese I, II and III.

As a District, Washington Township offers Spanish in grades 3 and 4 and world languages in grade 5.  Regular and adaptive classes are offered in 6th, 7th and 8th grade in Spanish, German and French.

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