Challenge
With student intake originating from around the globe, ACS needed to find ways to cater to the educational needs of students with different mother tongues, cultural experiences and educational backgrounds. ACS started the search for an online language-learning environment that would be accessible to pupils from all backgrounds and learning styles.
Differentiation, particularly in the field of language-learning, is extremely important to ACS, and they identified the need for an adaptable, online resource to supplement their specialist language teachers and the traditional learning resources they were using.
Solution
After recommendations from MFL staff at the school, ACS Egham arranged a trial with Rosetta Stone, an online language-learning environment, which allows teachers and pupils alike access to 31 different languages, ranging from Arabic to Spanish.
By recreating the instinctive language-learning experience we undertake as children learning our first language, Rosetta Stone engages learners from the first screen, enabling learners from distinct linguistic backgrounds to learn simultaneously.
ACS Schools chose to adopt the Rosetta Stone solution for all 2,450 pupils and staff members across three sites. As the program integrates into a school's existing network, and can also be accessed from home via an internet connection, Rosetta Stone offers high levels of flexibly and scalability to international schools.
Donna Ellery, IT coordinator for ACS Egham, said: "Rosetta Stone is an extremely useful tool for differentiation, and really helps us cater to the different learning styles and backgrounds of international students."
For more information go to www.rosettastone.co.uk or call us on 0800 883 0308
