Why VAIS?

Verona Area International School (VAIS) provides students with global competencies to help them succeed in the real world. VAIS aims to provide a challenging and comprehensive education for K-5 students, preparing them to be inquisitive and analytic lifelong learners.

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Mandarin Chinese...

• is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world.
• has an intuitive number-naming system that lends itself well to mathematics.
• is a very marketable language for job-seekers in global business and can open doors to many careers in the global community.

Research on language immersion shows when students are schooled through a second language, they absorb not only the language, but also the content of their lessons. VAIS students learn all the academic standards and skills taught in elementary schools across the district. Some of their subjects and standards are taught in Chinese.

• Immersion programs are the most effective type of second language programs.
• Immersion students develop greater cognitive flexibility and better nonverbal problem-solving abilities.
• Immersion learning is NOT a detriment to English-language learning.
• Immersion learning improves a child’s understanding of his/her native language.

Experts agree the best time for learning languages is when children are young because the human brain is developmentally at its prime stage for learning language in the earliest years of life. Studies show that children who learn a language before the onset of adolescence are more likely to have native-like pronunciation.

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