Professional Development

CARLA offers a range of professional development opportunities for language teachers.

Professional Opportunities

CARLA provides several professional opportunities for language educators and graduate students.

Scholarship Opportunities: CARLA offers three scholarship programs to support attendance at the CARLA Summer Institutes.
CARLA Fellow Program: Recognizes and supports the outstanding contributions of graduate students at the University of Minnesota in the area of second language learning and/or teaching, and engages students in the work being done at CARLA.
Advanced Practices Certificate: Opportunity for teachers to showcase their professional development work through the CARLA summer institute program.

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) is a Title VI Language Resource Center devoted to improving language teaching and learning. CARLA is a unit of the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance, the central international office for the University of Minnesota system.

Professional Development

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