Sentences with phrase «of language immersion»

I can implement lesson plans in order to facilitate instruction in Spanish learning from early childhood to eighth grade as I understand the functionality of language immersion in classrooms and how it effects students.

MPS is expanding access to its strongest programs, including additions to top - performing Montessori schools as well as expansion of language immersion, gifted and talented and International Baccalaureate programs.

HL: Harry had learnt, teacher as a facilitator, he understood the language, and we did a lot of language immersion around entrepreneurship and he just said «no, this is not on, Miss Lewis has already spoken to you and told you, she is a facilitator, she doesn't want to have to deal with behaviour issues» and they just went silent.

Not exact matches

We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten.

Of course, given our immersion in a culture for which these categories seem as connatural as the English language, uprooting them from our vocabulary and worldview will not be anything like a simple task.

If, for example, you decide to enroll your child in a dual language immersion school, it may require a bit of a drive.

Join us this summer at the International School of Arizona for our 2018 Spanish and French language immersion Summer Camp.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

Saland agonized over this issue with his gay - marriage - supporting wife, but one acquaintance said his decision seemed to grow out of his immersion in the legislative language.

As all of this month's authors show, however, immersion in scientific language — and the particular, peculiar way that we scientists communicate — will also stand you in good stead.

Second languages used extensively in an immersion context are subjectively experienced as emotional and elicit autonomic responding consistent with the subjective report of emotional arousal.

Before arriving in Japan, participants from all over Canada were also required to enroll in an intensive 4 - week Japanese language and cultural immersion program at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, to prepare them for living and working in Japan.

Fortified by «unconditional support» and worldwide travel, language studies, and cultural immersion, Ms. Obreht early had a wealth of resources from which to craft the kinds of stories she wanted to tell.

Angela currently serves as Co-President of DragonSprouts, a 501 (c) 3 organization that supports Mandarin Immersion language programs in the LA Unified School District.

A remarkable tour de force, simultaneously droll and poignant, burlesque and romantic, tracking the eternal (and nagging) question of good and evil through a pair of comedic bumbling cops and a couple of little kids in love, this immersion into the racist fantasies lurking in an un-bucolic landscape of meadows and manure could do for French television (and Dumont) what Twin Peaks did for the US (and Lynch): coining a new language, tapping into liberating creative forces.

EC English is a group of schools within the language travel industry that teaches English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through a full immersion, continuous enrollment model.

This is done through language immersion in Spanish or Japanese for half the day — teachers conduct the other half of the day in English.

We have instituted a one year immersion programme for our students in Nigeria and Benin Republic to spend in either country acquiring a second international language as a medium of communication and connections.

To isolate the effect on student learning of the language of instruction, the researchers followed students who were all learning reading via the Success for All curriculum but were randomly assigned to structured English immersion or transitional bilingual education.

Foreign - language - immersion schools can be defined broadly as those in which students spend at least 50 percent of their time learning while immersed in a nonnative language (Lenker and Rhodes, 2007).

Students in «50 - 50» language - immersion schools, in which students spend half of their day learning in a nonnative language, perform as well as, or better than, students in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and Collier, 2002).

Eisenhower International Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of just two language - immersion schools in the state; the other, Zarrow International, was begun eight years ago because of Eisenhower's overwhelming success.

Last year, all staff, including language - immersion instructional assistants, participated in a book study of Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage in the World (PDF).

Yet those students are now getting more of an immersion experience in English, while English - speaking parents are sending their children to schools where lessons are taught in Mandarin, Japanese, or another world language.

In 1985, only 50 foreign - language - immersion schools existed in the United States, and as of 2011 that number has grown to 448 (Center for Applied Linguistics (PDF), 2011).

Importantly, language - immersion classes are supported with instructional assistants who are native speakers of the immersion language and who can share knowledge of cultural traditions that support students» understanding of global perspectives.

«Within three blocks of my house, kids are attending at least six different public elementary schools,» said Hewson, who found that many parents she knew were opting for schools with stronger performance or special features like dual - language immersion.

Unz: The impact of English immersion in California has been great — especially among younger children who learn new languages more easily.

As part of a two - day national summit here on revitalizing native languages, three founders of immersion schools that are teaching children Cherokee, Ojibwe, and Native Hawaiian contended that some No Child Left Behind provisions present huge hurdles for language - immersion programs or schools and conflict with schooling rights spelled out in another federal law, the Native American Languages...

Soon after, and as part of a broader school - board decision to expand school - choice options, the district launched a science and technology middle school, a dual - language immersion elementary, an all - digital high school, an arts - centered grade school, a virtual school starting at grade 3, and more.

According to Leslie Harper, the director of an Ojibwe immersion school in Leech Lake, Minn., about 1,000 of the Ojibwe living in the United States are fluent in their tribal language.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

Scholars and researchers present their latest findings regarding the impact of a restrictive language policy on teacher preparation and classroom practice through the lens of the decade - long implementation of Structured English Immersion (SEI) in Arizona.

This fact sheet analyzes the state's supply of bilingual teachers in light of the expected increase in bilingual and dual - language immersion programs.

He has conducted extensive research on alternative forms of bilingual and immersion education for language minority and language majority students.

What to watch: HIDOE intends to expand the efforts of the Teacher Induction Center to better support teachers serving special education students, English language learners, and students in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program.19 Stakeholders and policymakers should consider how to expand and improve the induction program's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populations.

She pointed to Académie Lafayette in Kansas City, a language immersion program that has long been considered one of the best schools in the state, and even helped St. Louis» program get off its feet.

Because of Glenn, we started the first public Montessori school in the nation, the first arts magnet going from elementary through high school, and the first foreign language immersion magnets beginning in the primary grades.

Developing students to be bilingual and biliterate is a primary goal of dual language immersion programs.

Proponents of Prop. 227 say English immersion is essential to students learning the language as quickly as possible, pointing to increases in academic performance by English learners on state tests since the law passed.

Head of School Melanie Tennyson attributes their academic success to ISL's language immersion curriculum but also to their restorative practices.

Last Monday, as our sun was being eclipsed by our moon, another sun was born: OUSD opened a brand new dual - language immersion middle school called Oakland School of Language, shortened to Oakland SOL.

DC Bilingual implements an innovative dual immersion Spanish and English learning program for all students, regardless of home language.

Even though various dual language immersion schools suffer from high attrition rates, 95 % of the families currently enrolled will be staying with DC Bilingual even as they are in the process of relocating this summer.

In lieu of a visit to local schools, APS's family engagement staff pulled together an impressive panel including the principal, family engagement liaison, community - based partners and parent leaders representing a language immersion school, their pre-school programs, an elementary school, and a high school.

Recently, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform highlighted a number of «asset - based» approaches to ELL instruction, including the International Charter School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a two - way immersion school where all students are labeled as second - language learners and help one another learn a second language.

In honoring Castrejón, the foundation will donate $ 10,000 to Language Academy of Sacramento (LAS), a K - 8 dual language immersion charter school focused on historically underserved populations.

The MPS district primarily oversees traditional public schools, including both neighborhood schools and a range of specialty schools and citywide schools, from language immersion to Montessori.

The mission of East Light Academy is to prepare its students for success in the modern society through English - Mandarin bilingual education that features language immersion, high academic expectations, and cultural diversity awareness.

One notable exception: By 5th grade, higher numbers of Latino ELLs in bilingual programs reached the «mid-basic» level of achievement on the state's English / language arts exam than their Latino ELL peers in English - immersion.