ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the development of what we are calling a “teachable” curriculum in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership. This notion of “teachability” integrates two somewhat contrapuntal elements: on the one hand, the curriculum needed to address the language needs of elementary (primary school) students learning to use Spanish in the world; on the other, it needed to support new teachers as they were learning to teach language to elementary students. Thus the curriculum had to effectively scaffold on two levels – student learning of the new language and teacher learning of the new professional practices involved in teaching that language to these students.
