Why are we teaching Tamil
• Tamil is the basis for Tamil Culture
• Our Children have to interact with people back in Home
• Good for Creativity and Brian Development to know more language
• Above all our Mother Tongue
OUR AIM
• Bring common platform in Teaching Tamil in GA and later stage to North
America
• GATS could act like TOEFL and SAT boards
• Have yearly exam for each grade.
• Finalizing syllabus for the exam
• Have graduation in Tamil Language
• Get accreditation and credit hours for Tamil Language from government To
benefit for the college admission.
Points for discussion Syllabus.
– Three possible syllabus we could select or
combination of all three
• Tamil Nadu government text books – Freely
available for use to teach and for exam
• Tamil Virtual University materials ‐ Freely
available for use to teach. Also they have 6
levels of exams and US centers for exam
• Singapore government Tamil education books – We need permission to use their materials
(copyright). I think it could be done.
• Get accreditation for Tamil with Georgia – In CA people has done this before. Getting help
from them
– Find out State government or school district has
the authority to give accreditation.
• Have yearly exam for each grade.
• Have graduation in Tamil Language
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