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4/9/2018
Confidence!The importance of character skills such as creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and confidence are of paramount importance in modern education. The fact is that the world is changing rapidly, and the world that today's kids will be emerging into as adults cannot be fully imagined or predicted. With this in mind, the best schools are using visionary guidance to prepare students broadly with a foundation of character skills that will undoubtedly be an inexorable part of a successful launch into the mid-21st century world of work. The globalization movement happening over the past decades has made 2nd and even 3rd and 4th language skills more important than ever. Having not only communication skills, but also cultural awareness and confidence can be an immensely valuable tool for any professional. Students at PNA from 3 years old through the 8th grade are getting language and cultural instruction through the school's Spanish program, which in truth might be better titled as "Global Citizenship, Spanish Language, Cultural Competency, and YOU" allows kids to be kids, creating wild, hilarious, and otherwise original stories, and re-telling them to a crowd of their peers in Spanish. These opportunities to mix public speaking, collaboration, and creativity are myriad at PNA and reach across subject areas to provide students with a uniquely powerful learning experience each and every day. Here we see 4th and 5th graders working together to re-tell stories about a trip through space to planets near and far, this coming on the end of a multi-week unit involving reading, writing, group storytelling, creative drawing, public speaking, listening for understanding, pronunciation, and more. Each day at PNA is another day that students make valuable gains that will provide the basis for their successful future. Comments are closed.
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