Registration for the winter session of Saturday English classes at CASA will be Saturday, January 19, 2019 from 9 am to 11:30 am at CASA’s Silver Spring Welcome Center, 734 University Blvd East, Silver Spring, MD 20903. The cost of registration is $100 for CASA members. (New membership can be processed at registration and the cost is $35 per year.)
Classes begin on February 2nd and will meet for 8 weeks. All students must register in advance. Classes meet Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm.
For more information contact Rebecca Cusic at 240-491-5750 or rcusic@wearecasa.org.
The goal of CASA’s Life Skills ESOL Program is to improve participants’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in English so that they may become more financially independent, increase their employability, better integrate into U.S. society, and achieve their personal goals. Classes provide adult-learners with the skills to apply English accurately and appropriately in a variety of places including but not limited to home, community, and workplace settings.
All CASA’s ESOL classes utilize a combination of communicative task-based learning and Popular Education techniques.
“Popular Education is a collective and long-term educational process that empowers educator and students to apply a critical eye to the current political, socio-economic, and cultural reality in order to transform it... Popular Education differs radically from mere training or the simple transmission of information. It allows people to develop the critical thinking skills necessary to understand, make commitments, come up with ideas, transform, and be transformed.” - Ranulfo Peloso.
Lessons are focused upon concrete and practical everyday experiences. Students, as adults, come to class with experiences they are encouraged to share and peer teach while performing tasks. Class materials are geared towards student’s life experiences and promote both civic engagement and community empowerment.
