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Teaching at Maple Bear

At Maple Bear, students become truly bilingual, capable of navigating comfortably and naturally in environments where both English and Portuguese are used. In the first years of Early Childhood Education, students experience total immersion in the English language. From the Senior Kindergarten, which is the last year of Early Childhood Education, they start receiving some stimuli in Portuguese, and learn literacy in both languages ??simultaneously. Our students are encouraged to share information, compare ideas, interpret languages, develop critical thinking and investigate the alphabetic writing system in both languages. Finally, starting from Grade 1 (in Elementary School), half of the workload is offered in Portuguese and half in English.

Benefits of the bilingual brain

MULTICULTURALISM

Learning in English means learning, differentiating and respecting countless cultures. Real bilingual children are exposed to more than one culture, which expands the possibilities of making sense of the world, develop critical thinking and global vision. At Maple Bear Joinville we celebrate commemorative dates in Brazil, Canada and globally.

LANGUAGE

As we use language when thinking, a child's oral ability is highly related to the number of words he/she can produce. A bilingual child uses, on average, more than twice as many words as a monolingual child of the same age. Learning to speak, read and write in two languages ??is faster, more enjoyable and, most importantly, generates a growing sense of self-esteem and identity.

OPORTUNITIES

Bilingual students have the necessary skills to live, study, work and be happy anywhere in the world. Thus, increasing academic and professional opportunities in Brazil and abroad, in addition to learning other foreign languages more easily.

COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS

Numerous studies have confirmed that being bilingual really does make you smarter as it has a profound effect on the brain, enhancing memory, as well as improving cognitive functions such as: concentration, planning, and problem solving.

MORE DEVELOPED BRAINS

According to scientific researches, the bilingual brain is more developed, as it makes more connections and exercises more during the organ's greatest growth phase, which can reduce neuronal pruning. Consequently, the probability of degenerative diseases – such as Alzheimer's – affecting bilingual people is significantly lower than in monolingual people.

LITERACY

Bilingual children learn to read faster and better than monolingual children. Strategies used to decipher codes in one language, help discoveries in the other language. Also, in the past, there were concerns that teaching two languages ??at the same time could confuse a child, fortunately, research indicates just the opposite.

LITERATURE

Bilingual people tend to have access to much more information and literature often not yet translated into Portuguese.

More Benefits Of Bilingual Education

At Maple Bear, students begin learning English in Early Childhood Education using a student-centered, English immersion learning system, based on the Canadian educational pedagogy and best practices. The development of the English language brings numerous benefits to the young student, such as:

  • Better concentration, analytical skills and multitasking capabilities;

  • Greater sense of self-esteem and identity;

  • Ability to live abroad and learn other foreign languages;

  • Exposure to more than one culture, which leads to a global perspective;

  • Development of socio-emotional skills.

Life Excellence

Since its founding in 1867, Canada has been constituted as a nation based on respect for differences and recognition of two languages: French and English. But it was at the end of the 1960s that Canada, through the “Languages ??Act”, one of the pillars of the government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the work of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, established bilingualism as crucial and determinant for the inclusion and respect for the rights of all citizens of the country. This movement marked the beginning of a long history of research and dedication to the development of a truly bilingual educational system, capable of developing citizens not only fluent in a second language, but possessing the culture of two native languages.

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