Elementary students learning Arabic.When Amana Academy Amana Academy is a Fulton County School System K-8 charter school in Alpharetta, Georgia. It has a collection of unique educational approaches, including gender segregated classes, Arabic language instruction, Expeditionary Learning, classroom looping, and an emphasis on in North Fulton, Georgia, opened its doors this school year, one of its mandates was for its 190 kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through six-graders to study Arabic. "We want to give our students a competitive edge and help them bridge cultural gaps," says Principal Shereen Salam. As part of the academy's expeditionary ex·pe·di·tion·ar·y adj. 1. Relating to or constituting an expedition. 2. Sent on or designed for military operations abroad: the French expeditionary force in Indochina. Adj. 1. learning platform, the Arabic instructors collaborate with classroom teachers. If students are studying how to behave during a natural disaster as part of a unit on community responsibility, for instance, they might learn relevant vocabulary words in Arabic. "It's wonderful to have a language featured in a school as a required part of the curriculum," says Bret Lovejoy, executive director of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. . "This is a great example of the type of programs we'd like to see throughout the country." www.amanaacademy.org |
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