Take advantage
of your child's window of opportunity for learning a second language
easily and naturally.
•Enrich and enhance your child's mental
development.
•Increase your child's ability to have more
flexibility in thinking, greater sensitivity to language, and a better
ear for listening.
•Improve your child's understanding of his or her
native language.
•Give your child the ability to communicate with
people she or he would not otherwise know.
•Open the door to other cultures.
•Increase understanding, appreciation and empathy
for people from other cultures.
•Give your child a head start in language
requirements for college.
•Increase career and educational opportunities in
fields where language fluency is a real asset.
The German School Chicago intends to build the
curriculum around the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. This
program is internationally regarded as a superior curriculum,
recognized by colleges and universities throughout the world. An IB education at German School Chicago will provide the rigor, perspective and transferability Chicago children require.
"Students will inquire, make connections, develop
conceptual understanding, think critically, work
collaboratively, consider multiple perspectives, construct meaning,
reflect, take action."
- International Baccalaureate, June 2007
The program is organized around six
inter-disciplinary themes of global significance intended to help
children engage with the world around them. These themes align with the
values and approach of the German School Chicago.
More information can be found at:
http://www.ibo.org
