Research indicates that learning a second language can enhance children's analytical and creative skills, positively influence math performance, and improve SAT scores!
ELEMENTARY SPANISH: Students in 4th - 6th grades love to learn Spanish through storytelling! They will hear, write, dramatize, and illustrate stories, as well as design original narratives.Their boundless creativity propels language acquisition! Songs, Bible verses, and missions/culture round out the elementary Spanish class experience.
SPANISH I: High school students discover that the storytelling method catches their imagination and accelerates learning as they begin to actually use the language rather than simply memorize grammar rules. To fulfill transcript requirements students will meet once a week for two hours during a full school year and should expect daily homework and weekly tests. Bible verse memory is included, and semester grades/evaluations will be provided.
SPANISH II: Building on level one knowledge, this course continues with the engaging method of storytelling for Spanish language acquisition. During the course of the school year students will read a novel designed specifically for their learning level. Bible memory will be included, and semester grades/evaluations will be provided.
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Research underscores value of early language learning
(from Duke Gifted Letter, Vol.8, Issue 1, Fall 2007):
Beginning foreign language instruction early sets the stage for students to develop advanced levels of proficiencies in one or more languages.
Studies have shown repeatedly that foreign language learning increases critical thinking skills, creativity, and flexibility of mind in young children.
Students who are learning a foreign language outscore their non-foreign language learning peers in the verbal and . . . math sections of standardized tests.
The notion of 'earlier is better' in language learning seems to be upheld by the fact that longer sequences of foreign language instruction seem to lead to better academic achievement, overall.
Interactive learning is the best since language learning is a social activity . . . no one can really take the place of a classroom teacher, because a teacher can . . . engage students in dialogue.
Beginning foreign language instruction early sets the stage for students to develop advanced levels of proficiencies in one or more languages.
Studies have shown repeatedly that foreign language learning increases critical thinking skills, creativity, and flexibility of mind in young children.
Students who are learning a foreign language outscore their non-foreign language learning peers in the verbal and . . . math sections of standardized tests.
The notion of 'earlier is better' in language learning seems to be upheld by the fact that longer sequences of foreign language instruction seem to lead to better academic achievement, overall.
Interactive learning is the best since language learning is a social activity . . . no one can really take the place of a classroom teacher, because a teacher can . . . engage students in dialogue.
La profesora
Bilingual and holding dual degrees in English and Spanish, la profesora has years of experience teaching children through adults, including: homeschooling her own children, teaching Sunday school and women's Bible studies, helping coordinate and lead multiple short term mission trips to Mexico, teaching Spanish to scores of students in the homeschool community, and working in Hispanic missions both overseas and locally.
Exposure to the TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) approach has greatly influenced her classroom instruction. Using a narrative method, she witnesses tremendous enthusiasm and impressive progress among her students that usually far surpasses what they accomplish/retain through self-paced programs. Providing teacher-directed student interaction that fuels the learning process, the classes ignite the students' imaginations, and parents get the equivalent of private school language instruction at a fraction of the cost.
Exposure to the TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) approach has greatly influenced her classroom instruction. Using a narrative method, she witnesses tremendous enthusiasm and impressive progress among her students that usually far surpasses what they accomplish/retain through self-paced programs. Providing teacher-directed student interaction that fuels the learning process, the classes ignite the students' imaginations, and parents get the equivalent of private school language instruction at a fraction of the cost.
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