Jacaranda Education Inc s.c.

Jacaranda Education is a Sociedad Civil (S.C.) founded in 2005 by graduates of the International Education and Transcultural Studies Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. Its mission is to enhance education in Mexico`s public and private education sectors by providing a range of high-quality, cost-effective services focusing on teacher-training, curriculum design, teacher placement, and capacity building. In short, making new resources available to educators and students in Mexico.

Jacaranda Education supports a student-centered, constructivist, communicative language teaching approach which views local environment and socio-cultural context as an active and essential tool in the educational process and a necessary ingredient for active participation in today’s globalized world. Jacaranda Education advocates that the best approach to preparing students for global change is through exposure to quality, passionate instruction and an educational approach which highlights the trans-configurative nature of culture and the relationship between the local and the global environment through a multi-disciplinary educational approach.

To these ends, Jacaranda Education is committed to supporting initiatives which offer sustainable, diversified training for teachers, and which encourage the production and implementation of a range of independent materials which expose one to a wider range of ideas, knowledge, and concepts. The cornerstone to these ideas is Jacaranda’s excellence in international education and development work.

Course

• English Language Studies: Basic – Advanced

  Jacaranda Education provides the school with a unique curriculum, written especially for the school. Our textbooks, used at Low Intermediate, High Intermediate and Advanced Level comprise content covering the four main skills areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing. The courses at these levels cover contemporary topics of interest to the students...

• International Communications

  All students in the Preparatoria are taught a class of International Communications, by our specialist International Communications teacher. These classes discuss global themes on a local scale, and students look at the comparisons and contrasts between their community and those elsewhere in terms of politics and the environment...

• History of Art

  Students in the Secundaria have an Art Workshop every week which allows them to practice their English in a relaxed and creative environment. Students work individually, in teams and as classes to create artwork which has been displayed both in the school and abroad...

• Adobe Youth Voices Project

  Tercero Preparatoria students in this elective class, examine how they can influence social change within their local community through the medium of films. Students research and plan their films and topics throughout the year in order to complete a final project comprising a 15 minute documentary film featuring interviews, still and moving images, music and special effects...

• Drama

  While drama is not a separate course offered by the English Department, it is included within the Advanced level English classes. Teachers use drama as a way to allow their students to interact and express themselves in English. Advanced level classes study a Shakespeare play, this year “Macbeth” and produce a theatrical performance at the end of the second semester...

• Art Workshop

  Students in the Secundaria have an Art Workshop every week which allows them to practice their English in a relaxed and creative environment. Students work individually, in teams and as classes to create artwork which has been displayed both in the school and abroad...

• Literature Seminar

  For bilingual students in the school, the English Department runs a literature seminar taught by a specialist English and American Literature teacher. These classes start with an introduction to literary and critical analysis across a range of genres including biography, novels, short stories, poetry and drama...

• Toefl Course

  The English Department offers TOEFL preparation courses for its students in Tercero Preparatoria preparing for university study in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A. These courses cover all aspects of the TOEFL exam: reading, writing, speaking and listening and prepare students for the internet-based TOEFL exam...