Teachers of Critical Languages Program

Program Documents

• India Seminar [305.00 KB]
  India Seminar Application
• 2008 Fall TCLP Workshop [1.99 MB]
  2008 Fall TCLP Workshop
• TCLP Professional Development Fund [132.78 KB]
  The Teachers of Critical Languages Program allocates $400 in professional development funds to its exchange teachers so they can have access to teaching resources, classroom improvement materials, and professional development opportunities. This Professional Development Fund is separate from participants’ monthly stipends. While the stipend is designed to cover participants’ monthly expenses, the Professional Development Fund is specifically designed to support exchange teachers’ classroom teaching and professional development.
• TCLP Critical Language Projects [271.26 KB]
  The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce support for Critical Language Projects to assist Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) alumni and institutions to support mutual understanding by helping to increase the number of Americans teaching and learning critical need languages. Funding is available for the following types of projects: school partnerships and joint-classroom projects; sharing of innovative teaching methods, best practices and/or comparative methodologies; developing curricula and supporting the exchange of authentic materials for communicative needs; and strengthening respect and appreciation for educators. TCLP Critical Language Projects may be proposed by exchange teachers, alumni, U.S. mentor teachers, or U.S. host schools and districts. Projects should: 1) Maintain contact or expand the relationship between TCLP alumni and the schools at which they have taught as a teacher of critical need languages; and 2) Contribute to the development of critical need language programs in U.S. schools in support of the goal of increasing the number of Americans learning and teaching critical need foreign languages.