address: Milana Rakića 41
11000 Belgrade
phone: (+381 11) 3822 722
web: www.bami.edu.yu
email: bami@eunet.rs
A number of different educational methods and techniques are used within the holistic approach. They all share one quality – they regard the learning process in the context of the complexity of personal development. Learning embraces the intelect, body movements, emotions, expression through arts topped with the personal life experience.
- communicative method: we learn a foreign language in order to speak to other people, to share ideas, learn about others and their culture.
- “brain friendly” approach: is based on the contemporary findings about the functioning of the brain – information presented activates all the different intelligencies.
- Learning to learn: the students learn how to learn and which are their preffered learning styles. Raising awareness about the learning process is a skill of great use also outside the classroom
Pre-school
Our very young learners are involved in special games activating their bodily intelligence. The linguistic content is associated with the movement, the feeling of the touch, aural and visual stimuli. Materials for language learning are also intended for developing the emotional intelligence towards self and others. A special emphasis is placed on mutual understanding, peer cooperation and interaction. Singing, playing, meeting traditional games of other nations are interwoven in our language lessons.
Some pieces of advice from BAMI students to the newly enrolled:
- “Discover your talents: acting, singing, playing an instrument, correct English pronunciation. Most important: BE LIKE US”
- “Don’t ask me! Great teachers and a lot of laughter! If you don’t enrol you lose; if you do, you do the right thing!!”
- “You should be prepared to learn in class, to have good teachers and a lot of laughs”