Marhaba! Teacher's Toolkit

Marhaba!, an innovative student-centered and standards-based Arabic curriculum, bring this rich and challenging language to life. Lesson and activity guides allow educators to help students created personalized textbooks called daftars, a process that encourages them to take ownership of their own learning.

Developed and tested for over four years at the hands of two dozen public and private middle school, high school, and college instructors, with hundreds of of students from different backgrounds and with diverse learning needs, the Marhaba! program is proven to be effective. Students using Marhaba! regularly reach the Novice-High ACTFL proficiency level after 140 instructional hours, and they come away with a greater sense of ownership and responsibility for their own learning.

• Introduction
• Curriculum Map
• Assessments
• Linguistics
• How to...
• Games
• Paper Engineering
• Supplemental Resources
• Glossary of Terms

Dr. Steven Berbeco has graduate degrees in education from Boston University and linguistics from Harvard University and Indiana University. He holds a Massachusetts teaching license for history, English, and Arabic. Steven developed the Marhaba! curriculum after teaching Arabic in an inner-city school for six years and directing the Arabic Summer Academy, an intensive summer Arabic language program for urban students.

We believe this is the best approach for novice students who need to completely build their foreign language skills.

• Curriculum Guide with an in-depth introduction to Marhaba!, ideas for assignments and activities, lists of supplemental resources, and more!
• Teacher Training DVD with in-class teaching demonstrations by the author, student and teacher interviews, and examples of program activities presented by real students.
• Sample Student Daftar with a year’s worth of actual activities and assignments completed by students.
• Companion Website www.marhabaproject.org with suggested lesson assignments, authentic materials, and other teacher’s resources.