Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools
Lolita Goldstein is an experienced teacher of languages to high school students in a private school in Riverdale, N.Y. She has found in The Silent Way a renewal of her enthusiasm as well as sound techniques. Hilde Jaeckel teaches German and French at Staten Island Community College. Her experiment in teaching by The Silent Way was carried out concurrently with her teaching of French by other approaches. Cecilia Bartoli Perrault teaches Italian language and literature at New York University. As a student of The Silent Way, she has been instrumental in converting teachers to this approach — particularly at the college level — while preparing her own materials for her classes in The Silent Way. James Karambelas teaches Russian at the Pingry School in New Jersey. At present on leave of absence in Moscow, he is preparing materials for the teaching of Russian by The Silent Way, while writing his doctoral dissertation. Maria del Carmen Gagliardo learned The Silent Way as a trainee at Educational Solutions, in New York City, and as an assistant to Dr. Caleb Gattegno. An Argentinean, now residing in New York City, she teaches Spanish at Richmond College, Staten Island. Rosalyn Bennett is a bilingual teacher (Spanish and English) who adopted The Silent Way in preference to all the approaches she met as an M.A.T. student. Now a consultant in bilingualism 126