Taking the first step: How to create a high-school linguistics course

While teachers might see the need for linguistics, fear of not being “expert enough” can prevent high-school from all disciplines designing and teaching a linguistics course. Teachers, with or without subject matter expertise, who seek to establish K-12 course work closely administrators stakeholders, maintain “progress over perfection” mentality, consider merits exposing students early instead waiting national, standardized curriculum, remain flexible in delivery.