AlphaMax Academy wins English Spelling Bee for third time.

AlphaMax Academy won the first prize for Suriname English language schools or the third time in succession in the English Spelling Bee Contest. The contest was held on Saturday 18th August in the Congreshal in Paramaribo.This also means that the Academy is now the proud owner of the challenge trophy!

Photo: de Ware Tijd

There also was an English Spelling Bee contest for schools in which Dutch is the medium of instruction.

 In a separate round in this year's contest students had to give the meaning of English words.

“By going bigger, we want to realize a long-term goal, which is participating in the foreign Spelling Bee”, says Ms. Monique Brown, director of Stichting Leren voor een goede toekomst (Foundation of Learning for a good future). (Quote from article in de Ware Tijd Daily 20 April, 2015.)

One of the goals of the organization is promoting English language education in schools. She said that she was surprised that the children were so good.

This year AlphaMax Academy was the only participant in the category of schools in which English is the medium of instruction. Other English Language schools did not participate for a variety of reasons.

Since AlphaMax was the only school contestant,  AlphaMax students had to compete with each other. The overall winner was Archana Mangal. In second place was Joanna Daher and Sheetal Anroedh came  third . They got prizes; Archana Mangal got a trophy to keep and a laptop.

Archana Mangal said: “I not only wanted to participate but to broaden my knowledge, I also wanted to prove myself. And it is very important to be able to communicate in the English language.”

The students were prepared by AlphaMax Academy English instructors Kawita Thani,  Sharon Hoppie, Simone Griffith and  Cheryylyn Cambridge .

Carinlangs students -Kawita Thani,Vishal Ramjiawan and Gina Persaud were members of the jury  AlphaMax put  a lot of effort into preparing its students and helping to to organize the contest.

AlphaMax, and Archana, Joanna, Sheetal in particular, Congratulations!
 Source:  de Ware Tijd
Mr. Atma Jagbandhan,

Science instructor -AlphaMax Academy

Carinlangs Director Dr. Morroy on STVS tonight Sunday January 24th at 7.30 pm

Dr. Morroy, Dean/Director of Varinlangs will be on STVS tonight on the program "In the Spotlight".


Carinlangs and University of Guyana sign MOU

Dr. Morroy will be talking about the achievements of Carinlangs, the upcoming visit of the University of Guyana staff to second mark the Carinlangs action research poster exhibition and future plans for the institution.

Do tell your friends and others interested in the BA Tesol program.

A second batch of the one-year capstone program is scheduled to begin on April 13.

Carinlangs is a teaching institution based in Suriname. It is conducting programs to give students the opportunity to work world wide as teachers of English to speakers of other languages.

Carinlangs offers part time courses for the BA TESOL and MA TESOL at the AlphaMax educational complex -18-24 Stanvastastraat , Parimaribo, Suriname

The Carinlang Mission
Celebrating Suriname's excellence in education, linguistic wealth and cultural diversity Carinlanga aims to be the leading institution in the Caribbean promoting the teaching of English to other speakers.Our graduates will be equipped with the most practical teaching techniques as well as having an extremely wide exposure to cultural experiences.

Guyana Research Trip for Carinlangs Students

Twelve first year students on the Caribbean Institute of Language Studies  (Carinlangs ) first year BA TESOL program  will be visiting New Amsterdam , Guyana as part of their Special Seminar primary research course. Four tutors  including Director Dr. Robby Morroy will accompany the students.

Carinlangs Dance Item

The group will be travelling overland and will spend three days. On Friday the students will meet and interview professionals in nine areas of life in New Amsterdam.

On their return the students will do a research paper and a PowerPoint presentation on a selected aspect of the life and culture of Guyana. a

The Ministry of Sports and Culture  in Guyana has arranged for Ms. Shaundrel  Phillips, the acting principal of the New Amsterdam Multilateral school to link up with the Carinlangs group.

The New Amsterdam Library has invited the students to visit the library on Friday at 11.00 am to meet and interact with children during their weekly story telling time.  Two of our students will read Surinamese stories in English for the group. Mr . France Olivera Carinlangs lecturer will assist these students

The Mayor of New Amsterdam, Mr. Henry will meet the Carinlangs students when they arrive on Thursday. They will then have a mini tour of the city.

On Saturday the group hopes to be able to visit the University of Guyana’s  Berbice campus at Tain. In the evening the group will hold a mini reception at Berbice Inn for all the people who assisted them on the tour.

The group returns to Suriname on the 1st June.

This research project completes the first trimester for the Carinlangs students who began their one year BA capstone program in March. The students have already demonstrated their presentation and event management skills in a brilliant joint production with Alphamax Academy and the Indian Cultural Center celebrating Tagore’s birthday on May 10.

Carinlangs MC with Ambassadors from India & Guyana and ICC performers.

Excellent Professional Tagore Performance

AlphaMax Academy students put on an excellent, professional performance last night in the Tagore celebration of Gitanjali.

Eight dancers trained by Mrs.Kawita Thani thrilled the audience with their skill and stage finesse. Surinamers were proud that students from all the major Suriname communities could master the cultural dance from another country.

Reann Kersenhout -GAC 2014 class as well as AlphaMax 2014 graduating class joined Randy Esajas also a 2014 graduate and Daniel Kolf to give intensely focused powerful dramatic presentations of Tagore ' s poetry that left many marveling at the acting skills of Suriname ' s young people in English.

Parents were impressed that the school's director, dance/drama tutor and five other members of staff were fully involved with the production and either performed or worked alongside the student team.

The three ambassadors and other distinguished guests asked the school to convey their congratulations on a thoroughly professional performance.
Members of the audience also praised the smooth, flawless collaboration between AlphaMax, the Indian Cultural Center and Carinlangs.

Tagore Ideals on Education

The curriculum at AlphaMax Academy is strongly influenced by the ideals of India's celebrated poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore.

Tagore Bust in the courtyard at AlphaMax Academy

From its inception in September 1998, teachers and students of the Academy have recited, often daily, those memorable words which first appeared in Tagore’s world-famous and respected collection of poetry, "Gitanjali."

            

"Where the mind is without fear and head is held high           

 Where knowledge is free             

 Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls         

 Where words come out from the depth of truth              

 Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection               

 Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary dead sand of dead habit              

 Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action      

 Into that heaven of free, my dear beloved God, let us all awake”.

First Lady of Suriname speaking at the  unveiling of Tagore monument

On June 4th 2011 Suriname’s First Lady Ingrid Bouterse Waldring unveiled the Tagore monument, a sculpted bronze figure of Tagore, which has a plaque that bears this inspiring prayer.This monument, a gift from India to Suriname, is one of several worldwide. AlphaMax Academy is proud to be the custodian of Tagore's bust for the people of Suriname.

In 1918, Tagore founded Visva Bharati University – an international center of Culture and Humanistic Studies.

Tagore considered the lack of education to be the main obstacle in the way of national progress and at the root of all its problems. He thought that the basic objectives of any worthwhile national education system were to promote, creativity, freedom, joy, and an awareness of a country’s cultural heritage.

Therefore he worked assiduously towards developing an appropriate system of national education. He felt that each nation was different and this fact should be reflected in its system of education.

Some of his salient thoughts on this topic were:
“In every nation, education [should be] intimately associated with the life of the people.”

“Let the students gather knowledge and materials from different regions of the country, from direct sources and from their own independent efforts.”

“We must try to understand how [our native] genius express[es] itself… Unless we try to put these together and discover the integrating factors behind these diverse streams of thought and make them a subject of study at our universities, we would only be borrowing knowledge from abroad. The natural habitat for knowledge is where it is produced. The main task of universities is to produce knowledge, its dissemination is its secondary function. We must invite those intellectuals and scholars to our universities who are engaged in research, invention or creative activity.”

To help foster and enrich the holistic formation of its young scholars, from its inception, the Academy has devoted four of its five school days to left-brain academic and ratiocinative development and activities, and one full school day to right-brain creative endeavors.

An unswerving resilient insistence on the latter is vintage Tagore, who like his Occidental contemporaries, Rudolf Steiner and Maria Montessori deplored lop or one-sided child/human development at the expense of a willful fostering and guidance of creative gifts and skills.  Indeed it is through the latter that the inner ‘child’ is nurtured and brought to a ripe maturity.

To illustrate how important contact with nature was to the life of the educator and poet, during one of his many travels to lecture in the West, Tagore wrote:

“I wish I could be released from this mission.  For such missions are like a  mist that envelops our souls – they seem to shut us off from the direct touch of God’s world…  The springtime has come – the sky is over-flowing  with sunshine.  I long to be one with the birds, and trees and the green  earth.  The call comes to me from the air to sing, but, wretched creature  that I am, I lecture – and by doing it I ostracize myself from this great world of songs to which I was born.”

New York, March 18th, 1921.

On Mat 7th 2014 there will be a garlanding of Tagore's Bust at AlphaMax Academy.

Carinlangs and AlphaMax Invite you to celebrate Tagore's birth anniversary

First Lady of Suriname with Former Ambassador of Suriname in front of Tagore bust at AlphaMax Academy.

You are warmly invited to a Celebration of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali:” An Evening of Poetry, Music & Dance” on Saturday, May 10th, 2014 at  7 p.m.

This special evening of celebration for India’s most  prolific and best known artist takes place at the AlphaMax Educational complex - Stanvastestraat 18-24 (Zorg en hoop).

The program is being done by the Caribbean Institute ofLanguage Studies (Carinlangs^®) and AlphaMax Academy in collaboration with Indian Cultural Center and Embassy of India.
Read a book on Tagore.

Caribbean Institute of Language Studies launches second 2014 BA Tesol Program Group

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The Caribbean Institute ofLanguage Studies® (CARINLANGS®)

In collaboration with Dr.Robby Morroy

Presents to suitable candidates

Teaching of English To Speakers Of Other Languages (Tesol)

Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs

THE TARGET GROUP

                In-service teachers with an MOA diploma

What’s Being Offered

·       A capstone program to upgrade holders of the MOA diploma to the bachelor’s degree level in                 

·       Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

·       The capstone program will serve as a pre-requisite for a master’s degree program in TESOL.

DATES

                Bachelor’s TESOL – June 2014 to June 2015 [4 quarters – 2 semesters]

                                [Vacation periods in September and Christmas 2014]

                Master’s TESOL – starting in October 2015

LOCATION

                AlphaMax Academy, 18-24 Stanvastestraat, (Zorg-en-hoop), Paramaribo

REGISTRATION

                Limited Places – 35 candidates MAXIMUM

                Candidates must have already completed an MOA diploma

                Candidates MUST be in-service teachers in the Dutch or English education system in Suriname

                Candidates must be committed to pursuing the Master’s TESOL program which will commence

                in October 2015

                Candidates must submit a written “Personal Statement” (approximately 500 - 1000 words in

                English) addressing their interests and evaluating their commitment to the field of

                study, the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

                Call 597- 400588 (AlphaMax Academy)

                Email:  carinlangs@gmail.com

PROGRAM MODERATORS

                Robby Morroy, Ph.D.                                                                    

                Sean F. Taylor, M.A., B.A.

                Milton M. Drepaul, Dip. Ed. (Hons. – UWI), B.A