Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
| Spanish Courses for All Needs |
Our most popular class choice for adults, we place you in a very small group with others of your same Spanish level. Includes free tutoring sessions, extra-curricular activities, optional workshops for Educators and our popular Young at Heart program. |
Accredited by the Mexican Ministry of Education, students may earn college credit at Instituto Chac-Mool.
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Especially popular in summer, but offered year round, we have separate courses for children and teens. Parents can study at the same time their kids are taking classes. Visiting families are invited to enjoy our homestay opportunities. |
In addition to Private One-on-One Instruction, we feature a Semi-Private course with specialized vocabulary for Law, Medicine, Social Work, Law Enforcement, Business... almost any profession you can name. | ||
| Our Adult Total Immersion Program |
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- This is a tailored program designed to develop conversational fluency in the shortest time possible.
- The program offers 10 different Spanish levels from beginning levels to highly advanced.
If a student new to the school is tested with an ability level falling between 2 levels, Instituto Chac-Mool offers private Spanish instruction free of charge for 80 minute sessions (at the Director's discretion) to bring that student up to the next level.
- Class orientation and placement testing will be given first thing on Monday morning. All students will be grouped by Spanish ability based on a brief written, auditory and oral placement test. Students will then be placed into the appropriate group of no more than 5 students (possibly 6 in July).
- Courses begin every Monday throughout the year although mid-week starts can be arranged. Students determine how many weeks they will study.
- Students will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of their course. College credit is also available for as little as one week of classes.
- Class schedule corresponds to the hours of our separate children's programs. The core class time is 8:50 am to 1:50 pm, Monday through Friday with many extra-curricular activities after.
| In Addition to Your Core Classes |
- One-on-One Tutoring: Sign up each morning for an optional 20 minute session. Use to clear up any doubts about the language, or simply to fortify your Spanish. Free of charge.
- Taller Bilingüe: Tuesday & Thursday afternoon - In a group setting a teacher will explain a different Spanish grammatical point. Free of charge.
- Lectures in the afternoons with guest speakers, music, folklore, excursion orientation, & more. Please tell us your interests when registering! Free of charge.
- Mexican Cooking classes are so popular they are offered one evening a week. Small materials fee.
- Latin Dances will be taught one evening a week. Free of charge.
- Evenings also offer a variety of activities there will be a new schedule at the school each week. Many free of charge.
- Excursions: Instituto Chac-Mool offers full-day cultural excursions each Saturday plus on Sunday during the summer months.
| Our Method and Instructors |
According to Stephen Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition, "language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill". All of the instructors at Instituto Chac-Mool have been extensively trained in the theories developed by Krashen, and that of the Gardner's Theory of Seven Intelligences.
Gardner's Theory of Seven Intelligences states that everyone is born possessing the seven intelligences. Nevertheless, all students will come into the class with different sets of developed intelligences. Instituto Chac-Mool instructors are trained to determine each individual's primary set of intelligences, in other words, how each student will best learn. This individualized evaluation will allow the teacher to make more informed decisions how to best present information to each student in the group.
Instituto Chac-Mool carefully selects only the most qualified individuals to teach. All instructors have college degrees and are native speakers. Prior to beginning the six month teacher's training course, applicants are first tested to determine their appropriateness as possible instructors. At the end of training, instructors are tested again, and only those passing the rigorous test are selected as Chac-Mool instructors.
| School Holidays |
Classes at Instituto Chac-Mool are not offered on the following holidays,
however the rest of the week will have an extended schedule to make up the missed time (charlas, talleres and
consultas will be suspended that week to accommodate the longer class time). | |
| January 1, 2010 | New Years Day |
| February 5, 2010 | Constitution Day |
| March 19, 2010 | Benito Juarez Birthday |
| September 16, 2010 | Dia de Independencia |
| November 15 * or 19 2010 TBD | Revolution of 1910 |
| Christmas 2010 is a Saturday so no closures the weeks around the holiday | |
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*if a holiday falls on Monday classes will begin on Tuesday.
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Privada de la Pradera #108 Colonia Pradera
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 62170
