ISO advice about Romanian elem students & language learning (fwd)

[Devin Browne]

This message is from a good friend of mine who is now working in Romania.
If you can offer her any suggestions, please contact her directly at
<juliethunt at hotmail.com>.

Thanks!

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I hope you can be of some help to me as educators. I have just started
working with a private pre-school/elementary school here in Cluj. The
school  is an english only school with 75% of the students being Romanian
and 25%  (American, greek, arab, etc). The school has been well funded by
outside  sources such as world vision, german organizations and usaid.

They are acting as a training facility for new teachers throughout the
country that are pursuing elementary education. So what is the problem.
Well, they are teaching from whatever materials they have at hand. Teahers
set their own goals for the year and there is no standard curriculum that
they follow except what they have to do to meet Romanian elementary school
standard (this is also a problem as the curriculum in the regular school is
changing with the politics and  many students are failing due to the ever
changing curriculum).

First do any of you know where I might find standards for pre-school,
kindergarten and first grade? How are these applied in ESL settings? Would
any of you be willing to act as advisors on questions I might have? Do you
know anyone who would?

Also, the school could provide housing and food for a teacher (or recent
graduates of an education program) interested in coming this summer to help
them further develop their curriculum. Do you know anyone who would be
interested?

I know this is a lot to ask but it would make a huge difference for a whole
generation of children here.

Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks in advance for any help you can
provide.

Juliet Jacobson (Hunt)

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