Since its founding
in 1979, Spring International has developed, evaluated, tested,
and updated its Curriculum into a polished professional guide
that assists students in learning the most English possible in
the shortest period of time. The curriculum is divided
into six levels, beginning through college prep. Each
level of study is nine weeks in length.
A typical day's
schedule would include Reading, Writing, Grammar,
Listening/Speaking, and a choice of 4½-week modules that offer
a variety of skills and special interests, such as Conversation
Partners, Accent Improvement, Computers & ESL, TOEFL
Preparation, Business English, Pronunciation, and so on.
The curriculum provides for coordination of the skills, so they
are not taught in isolation. In addition, each day's class
work is reinforced with several hours of homework assignments.
Spring's networked
computer labs offer Internet and e-mail access, a special World
Wide Web "Web
Room" page for Spring students and staff, and educational programs
that enhance reading, spelling, grammar, writing and
listening. An introductory Computers
& ESL class is
offered to all intermediate and advanced level students and is a
required course for Level Three students.
A typical school
day begins at 9 a.m. with three 50-minute classes in reading,
writing, and grammar occupying the morning hours (this varies by
center). A one-hour lunch break is followed by two
one-hour Listening/Speaking and special-interest modules, with
the school day ending around 3:00 p.m. on Monday through
Thursday and noon on Friday.
