Einstein School has adopted the AERO World Languges Standards for Hebrew and French.
Learning to speak an additional language is indeed a powerful, life-long tool for communication across countries and cultures. Research tells us that speaking the language is only one of the many important advantages of language learning.
What is taught?
Communication: The ability to communicate effectively and respectfully, with meaningful content and awareness of the specific cultural context.
Cultures: The understanding of the practices, products, and perspectives of the languages and cultures studied.
Connections: The connections to other subjects, to the overall school vision and curriculum, to daily life, and to real and virtual communities. Making connections involves critical thinking and problem solving in the context of diverse perspectives while engaging in a wide variety of content.
Comparisons: The comparisons to one’s own culture, one’s own learning, and one’s own language or languages. It in this context that the linguistic elements of grammar, vocabulary, syntax etc. become important, and where many deeper understandings that lead to global awareness and competence are explored.
Communities: The interaction and collaboration from local to global within the school curriculum, in the world community and in lifelong learning.