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Heritage language education

Kurdish teacher training

Teaching Kurdish to children and adults in community and weekend schools.

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Levels
Practitioner
Study time
30 h
Wave
1
Status
Outline drafted
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.

A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit. are written and reviewed by peers. A course plan with outcomes, modules and assessment, written before the lessons and reviewed before teaching starts. are A text awaiting review; it can change before it is used. until expert review.

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Sources

Open scholarly records on this subject, from approved indexes. Listed for reference, not yet reviewed.

  1. Mohammed Khalid Mahmood, Ali Qadir Hama Rash, Mohammed Amin Qadir Hama Rash et al. (2023). Kurdish and Persian: Dialects or Separate Languages?. International Journal of Social Science and Human Research. DOI 10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i4-29
  2. Hasan IE, Al-Atroshi SJA (2026). Mabast dataset for Sorani Kurdish dialect semantic text classification.. Data Brief. DOI 10.1016/j.dib.2026.113121
  3. Hewa Salam Khalid (2020). KURDISH LANGUAGE, ITS FAMILY AND DIALECTS. Kurdiname.
  4. Aras Khider Ali, Sattar Jabbar Haji (2025). The Effectiveness of Carin’s Model in Acquiring of the Kurdish language Grammar Concepts for Tenth Graders students of Preparatory school. Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences. DOI 10.21271/zjhs.29.spb.20
  5. Saeed VA, Jacksi K (2026). Dasinya: A dataset and preprocessing pipeline for the Badini Kurdish dialect.. Data Brief. DOI 10.1016/j.dib.2026.113129

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01About this course

Who it is for
Current and future teachers of Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki and other varieties.
Format
Blended: online modules and observed teaching practice.
Study time
About 30 hours, estimated
Before you start
Fluent Kurdish in at least one variety.

02What you will be able to do

  • Plan lessons for one classroom with several ages, levels and dialects.
  • Teach reading in the script your community uses.
  • Protect children in class under the safeguarding law of the country you teach in.
  • Respect the varieties learners bring from home.

03Modules

  1. 01

    Heritage learners

    Children who hear Kurdish at home, and those who do not.

  2. 02

    Planning lessons

    Goals, activities and mixed levels.

  3. 03

    Teaching reading and writing

    From letters to stories.

  4. 04

    Song, story and dengbêj

    Using oral tradition to teach language.

  5. 05

    Safeguarding and inclusion

    Child protection law and classrooms open to every variety and faith.

  6. 06

    Parents and community

    Language at home and in the community.

04Assessment and completion

A mentor teacher observes one lesson and reviews your portfolio of lesson plans.

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You finished the course and its assessment.
Scope
This course only. It is not an accredited qualification, a degree or a language certificate.
Validity
A permanent record of completion. It does not expire and is not renewed.
Withdrawal
Withdrawn if obtained by misrepresentation.
Not an endorsement
Completion does not mean KCO endorses you, your work or your views.
Charter roles
Roles under the charter have their own criteria, renewal and revocation rules.

05Your progress

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06Who teaches it

Teachers are named here when the course opens.

  • Course lead

    Forming

    A teacher of the subject, named here when the course opens.

Outline review
A A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area. in the Academy reviews the outline before teaching starts.
Capstone review
A screened reviewer accepts each A sequence of courses for a purpose, ending in a capstone; it leads to a completion record, not a qualification. capstone.

07Pathways that include it

08More from Heritage language education

09Further reading

Suggested by open metadata, not yet reviewed.

  1. Kurdish and Persian: Dialects or Separate Languages?

    Mohammed Khalid Mahmood, Ali Qadir Hama Rash, Mohammed Amin Qadir Hama Rash et al. · 2023 · International Journal of Social Science and Human Research

    ArticleOpenAlexDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-NC

  2. Mabast dataset for Sorani Kurdish dialect semantic text classification.

    Hasan IE, Al-Atroshi SJA · 2026 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  3. KURDISH LANGUAGE, ITS FAMILY AND DIALECTS

    Hewa Salam Khalid · 2020 · Kurdiname

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen access

  4. The Effectiveness of Carin’s Model in Acquiring of the Kurdish language Grammar Concepts for Tenth Graders students of Preparatory school

    Aras Khider Ali, Sattar Jabbar Haji · 2025 · Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  5. Dasinya: A dataset and preprocessing pipeline for the Badini Kurdish dialect.

    Saeed VA, Jacksi K · 2026 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

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10Record

Every course is a public good. Its record follows the charter’s publication rules.

Version
0.1, draft outline
Review
Pending review by the responsible Community of practice
Handling
Public
Provenance
Drafted from the platform’s research dossier for scholarly review
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Corrections
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Use
Do not use this course or its completion to imply endorsement or political standing.
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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Kurdish teacher training. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurdish-teacher-training/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurdish Teacher Training.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurdish-teacher-training/.

BibTeX
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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurdish teacher training},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurdish-teacher-training/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurdish-teacher-training/},
}

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