Registration for CASA's winter session of evening English classes will Thursday, January 17, 2019 from 6 pm to 8:30 pm at the mansion, 8151 15th Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20783. 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 January 28th and will meet for 8 weeks and all students must register in advance. Classes meet for eight weeks Monday through Thursday from 7 pm to 9 pm at Northwood High School, Northwood High School, 919 University Blvd West, Silver Spring, MD 20901.
For more information contact Edwin Mejia at 240-491-5746 or emejia@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.
