Geography: 12:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Geography class is one of the most important classes of the day. This is the time when kids learn about their surroundings. Because the kids in this program learn better doing hands on activities, it is important that they do hands on activities to learn about the world. Each week students will learn about a different part of the world. The teacher will create a list of different places for students to learn about. They will use globes for visuals and will be able to go outside for examples that the teacher may want to demonstrate. This is a great tactic to teaching Geography because it allows kids to get outside in the enviornment and use visuals such as globes and maps to learn about the world.
World Language: 2:05 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
There will be many different languages offers in this program such as Spanish, Japanese, French. Chinese and Italian, all varying in different levels of difficulty. Having a great amount of language choice will allow students to pick languages they actually might want to learn, thus they will work hard in class to learn their language of choice. As a motivator to get kids to learn, there will be an end of the year field trip to the country that kids are learning about. This gives students a goal o work by which will motivate them to complete the school year academically strong.
I can tell that you have put a lot of thought into this!
ReplyDeleteYour blog posts about classes are dead on. I honestly like hands on classes better than lectures. Great Job!
ReplyDeleteI like your suggestions. But what would the cost of a program like this be? If you have 5 different languages offered, you will need at least 1, maybe more teachers for each language. PRICEY!
ReplyDeleteHello Skyler
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog and taking time to comment so kindly.
It's hard for me to give advice or feedback on your posts at present, simply because I'm not sure about who you are, the school or education set up you are running and the general ethos of your establishment.
Here in Scotland we are trying to give children a much greater say in their education. So an example here, may be that we'd allow a child to pick a country of their choosing to investigate, but lay down clear success criteria about the expectations around the project.
Good luck and best wishes
Juliet