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New initiative will offer training for AP Italian teachers
Italian-American Herald
The College Board and The Italian Language Foundation, both 501(c)(3) organizations, have announced a new partnership that will offer the first of several professional development workshops on Feb. 1 for teachers of AP Italian.
This initiative will combine the management and academic support from the College Board, the vigorous advocacy efforts of The Italian Language Foundation, and the hospitality of the Embassy of Italy in Washington.
“The College Board is excited to collaborate with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Language Foundation to host a series of workshops across the United States for AP Italian language and culture teachers,” said Trevor Packer, senior vice president of AP and Instruction with The College Board. “These workshops will give teachers information about updates to the 2019-20 course and exam and the many new free AP resources available to support their classes.”
The first of the joint workshops will be conducted Feb. 1 at the Italian Consulate
in New York City, courtesy of Consul General of Italy to New York, Francesco Genuardi.
The Italian Language Foundation's mission is to promote and support the teaching and learning of Italian, and especially, of AP Italian. Student members of the Italian Language Foundation are eligible to receive "Awards for Excellence," which are cash rewards to students earning a scoreof3,4,or5ontheAP Italian exam.
Teachers of AP Italian
are given support by the
Italian Language Foundation
throughout workshops like the
one scheduled for February.
These professional development workshops are made possible through the generosity
of The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation. The Feb. 1 workshop will
be free to teachers of AP Italian who are members of the Italian Language Foundation.
The Italian Ambassador to the United
States, the Honorable Armando Varricchio, said of the collaboration: “The success of our language and its growing interest in the U.S.A. is a reflection of the love Americans have for our culture and is a direct result
of the collaboration overseen by the Italian Embassy which actively involves our consular network and all the members of the National
First generation Italian-American owned and operated
Observatory of Italian Language. In this framework I warmly welcome the close and fruitful cooperation with the Italian Language Foundation and the College Board in order to promote and support the AP Italian exams across the United States.” IAH
Learn more about the workshop and the Italian Language Foundation at italianlanguagefoundation.org
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