Teacher Professional Development Services
The Italian Language Foundation offers a dedicated support network for its Teacher Members in order to enhance their competence and confidence in the teaching of Italian. Through free workshops, webinars and Teacher Recognition Awards to ILF Teacher Members, The Italian Language Foundation strives to provide high quality professional development opportunities for teachers of Italian nationally.
The Italian Language Foundation also advocates to increase the number of schools offering Italian language and AP Italian and encourages the teaching of Italian throughout the United States.
The Italian Language Foundation is pleased to announce the 2023 Teacher Recognition Awards!
Online Modules
Developed by College Board experts in AP instructional design, the following interactive online modules will provide you with strategies, resources, and activities for teaching an effective AP world language and culture course and building students’ communicative competencies in the courses leading up to AP.
Workshops
Learn more from the College Board about the AP instructional design workshops that provide interactive online modules for curriculum strategies, resources, and activities to help you teach your AP world language and culture courses. They also help build students’ competencies in the courses leading up to AP.
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