Startalk Teacher Training

The NYU STARTALK program is composed of intensive, 10-day residential workshops designed to enhance the knowledge and the skills of current and prospective school, community, and college teachers of Arabic, Dari, Hindi, Persian, Turkish, or Urdu. Participants learn the most up-to-date, standards-based teaching methodologies and are required to develop, observe, and critique classroom procedures, strategies, and teaching techniques. The programs include a cultural component in which participants learn how to use the resources available in the community environment.

Classrooms are equipped with audio-visual equipment and classes are held on New York University's campus in New York City. The curriculum is based upon a New York State-approved course, which is part of the regular curriculum of the master's program in Foreign Language Teaching at the NYU Steinhardt School for Culture, Education and Human Development.