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Centralized English-language learning

As a model for one of the ways schools could help kids learn English, there could be a service that centralizes expertise in English language teaching and learning that schools could connect to through the internet. Right now, English language learning is a big focus of APS. Often, teachers themselves aren’t proficient in the language. And the go-to strategy seems to be recite and repeat. What if there was a service that provided connections to English language experts? This service could have a portfolio of offerings:


 Pre-packaged audio/video modules for playing in class.
Students could be gathered together into a central courtyard and watch videos created around English language learning.


[Consider already in-the-world services like language podcasts and books-on-tape. And amazing media sources that already exist to teach English language such as Sesame Street]


 Live interactions with English language professionals
Students could be connected to an expert teacher from a centralized location through the internet. They could have conversations with these experts to develop their conversational skills. This could happen over skype, or through a more formal web site.


This company could train people (around the globe? Across india? In their community?) about the nuance of helping to teach English language in India, and develop their own strategies for effective language learning.


They could also develop processes for matching these language tutors to schools, and for scheduling.


[Consider already in-the-world services like Live Mocha already teaching language through matching people around the world, or the emergence of Telemedicine which centralizes experts but gets medical services to remote areas. Also, consider services like Kaplan or Princeton Review in the US – they have tutors all over the country who represent the expertise of the organization, but are a more informal structure]

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