Program Type: Immersion, Foreign Language
Program Level: Kindergarten, Lower School
Location: San Mateo, CA
Website URL: http://www.mandarinimmersion.com

At College Park all students receive a differentiated, standards based, academically enriched and challenging education in two languages, Mandairn and English. The Mandarin immersion program was launched by a federal magnet grant in 2007 as a natural extension of the Mandairn elective classes that began in 2004. For the school year 2010-2011, students in grades K-3 receive content-based, thematic Mandarin Immersion instruction. This means that students learn to understand, speak, read,and write Mandarin and use Mandairn to learn other subjects such as math, social studies, PE and science. Students have both English and Mandairn teachers, materials, textbooks, and classrooms. In the subsequent years, an additional grade level wlll be added so that by 2012 Mandarin immersion will be a part of every K-5 student's day.

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