Standards & Advocacy

World Language Standards in PA?

Although Pennsylvania does not currently have World Language Standards, PSMLA encourages teachers to use the following resources in curriculum development, lesson planning, writing SLO’s, etc:

ACTFL World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
Common European Framework for Language Learning, Teaching, Assessment, including the Can Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can Do Statements
Proposed Pennsylvania State Standards from 2011 (Use Search for Standards: World Languages) or the draft from 2002 (pdf)

Advocacy in the Commonwealth

PSMLA Advocacy Webpage is dedicated to promoting language education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We want to share with you different ideas, resources, and our formidable desire to promote a great cause: Making it possible for each Pennsylvania students to become proficient in more than one language.