Minilinguists’ Consulting Services
SERVICES AVAILABLE
In-Service Training
Custom-designed Workshops, call 301 770-2937 for information.
Choose an aspect of language teaching or curriculum that you need to explore with your staff: updating their vocabulary and speaking skills in a particular language, use of the internet for language teaching; theatre in the classroom; music for language classes; classroom management for the language classroom; using the arts to challenge children to use several learning approaches in your classroom; or any other topic. We will provide a workshop, or series of workshops to train your staff.
- Meet with us to define your requirements, budget and schedule.
- We plan and provide the workshop.
- This can be in your space or ours (we have space in Tyson’s Corner, DC and Rockville, Maryland.
- If you’re a business, and not a school, see Business Services.
Consulting and evaluation of your language program, call 301 770-2937 for info.
- If you’re unsure of the direction you want for your language program, have us help you evaluate that.
- Then, we’ll help you define your goals, and meet them.
- We can write a language program, evaluate those that you’re considering, help you to choose or train staff.
- Hire us to start a language program from staff or to revitalize and revise the one you half.
- Have us design and start a language camp for you in the summer. We will train the staff, and then it’s yours, or we can be retained to administrate all future camps.
- Do you have a language curriculum that is functioning, but you’re not seeing the desired results in the classroom? Let us visit your classrooms, and read your curriculum. We’ll help you make the necessary revisions to improve your students’ participation and comprehension of learning tasks.
- These services can be for a county’s language program, a private or public school, either immersion, semi-immersion or shorter, regular language classes.
- We have worked with all ages and levels, from babies through high school.
Home Education Groups, call 301 770-2937 for information and scheduling.
- We are available to teach regular classes to your group (see private and private group lessons)
- Hire us as consultants to help parents improve their program and language skills (any language).
- Check our website regularly for upcoming products to be used to assist you in teaching language skills.
- Choose private lessons for one or more parents in your group.
- Hire us to speak at your home schooling group about a topic of interest to you concerning language or using theatre and the arts to teach academic subjects.
Consulting in your classroom, call 301 770-2937 for information.
- Hire us to plan a special lesson plan for your class concerning any vocabulary set in French. We can provide this in other languages also with advanced notice.
- Theatre, crafts or music workshops in a particular language, including French and English.
SCHOOL PERFORMANCES, call (301) 770-2937 for information and scheduling.
- Kaaren Agnez sings original songs in French. The name of the concert is the same as her new album, “Do-do, non, non !” She will sing classical French songs and eleven original songs that teach vocabulary, and grammatical concepts to children from toddlers through seven or eight years old. They can be presented with all words spoken being in French, or they can be sung to an audience that is unfamiliar with French. All performances are designed to engage the audience in participation. Ms. Agnez has been performing audience-participation theatre since the early eighties.
- The above performance can include songs in English, French and Spanish.
- There will soon be an all Spanish performance available.
- We can also write a French or English language play for your school to perform. Eventually this can be offered in other languages.
- We’re scheduling now for January through June.
- Prices are set according to the size of the audience and the number of performances. A price break is given for back-to-back performances.
- We are willing to work on concerts hired to perform a benefit for your school or organization.
- CD’s will soon be available with teaching materials, for baby - 5 of any language level (including fluent) or ages 5 - 8, beginning to intermediate speakers. CD’s in Spanish, English and other languages will follow soon.
LANGUAGE LEARNING PRODUCTS, e-mail to Minilinguists@aol.com and Minilinguists@comcast.net to be on our mailing list for related information.
- We can be hired to design materials that your program needs but that aren’t yet produced. Our expertise is creative problem-solving in curriculum and materials design. We can do this for a school, or a school system.
- Keep in touch through our website. CD’s of music, a patent-pending system to teach language and academic products will be available for sale between November and January.
- Books on language learning will also be available soon.
BUSINESS SERVICES, call 301 770-2937 for information and scheduling.
- Hire us to teach your employees to speak French, Spanish or English.
- All lessons are developed to service your business needs and to adapt to the level and learning styles of the participants in the workshops.
- If you have a business that continually needs to train members to speak a foreign language in a particular field. We can develop materials specific to your enterprise, and cyclically provide consultants to train new employees. We can do this at your site, or ours.