Greater Grace International School

A GGIS 1+12 osztályos amerikai általános iskola és gimnázium.

Pedagógiai programunk az A-BEKA tanmenetre, a SHURLEY ENGLISH és a SAXON matematika programra illetve más kiegészítő tananyagokra épül.

Az oktatás iskolai előkészítővel indul, ezután következnek az általános iskolai és a gimnáziumi osztályok. Az iskola elvégzésekor a diákok sztenderd amerikai középiskolai diplomát kapnak.

Tantervünk az alaptantárgyak átfogó programját nyújtja. Ez magában foglalja az angolt (fonetika, angol, amerikai és világirodalom; nyelvtan, költészet, szókincsfejlesztés, helyesírás, fogalmazás), a történelmet és társadalomtudományokat (világtörténelem, filozófia, közgazdaságtan, amerikai kormányzás, kulturális antropológia), valamint a természettudományokat (biológia, kémia, földrajz, fizika). A SAXON matematika program, mely elemi matematikát, majd erre építve algebrát, geometriát, trigonometriát és analízist tanít, teljes körű, integrált matematikai tanterv. Az elmélet elsajátítását folytonos ismétléssel és gyakorlással segíti. A matematika programot olyan gyakorlati tantárgyak egészítik ki, mint például az alkalmazott és üzleti matematika.

Ajánlott kiegészítő tantárgyak: Biblia, idegen nyelvek (latin, francia, német, magyar, spanyol választható), számítógépes ismeretek, művészettörténet, testnevelés, zene, rajz és kézműves foglalkozás, logika, politika és egyetemi felkészítő órák. Ezen tárgyak tantervét rendszerint a szaktanár állítja össze és az igazgató hagyja jóvá.

I have attended GGIS for 8 years...

The triple values of the school are: respect, morality, and discipline.  Few schools manage to combine these values in such a loving environment!

I have attended Greater Grace International School (GGIS) for 8 years, during 1992-2000. I must certainly say that enrolling me in GGIS was one of the best decisions my parents ever made! The strong emphasis that GGIS places on moral values and the students' character goes above and beyond anything I have seen (or heard about) in elementary or high schools in the U.S.A. and Hungary. The triple values of the school are: respect, morality, and discipline. GGIS certainly outdoes itself in instilling these values into its pupils. Few schools (in fact, none that I've seen) manage to combine these values in such a loving environment!

...the remarkable patience, yet remarkable authority that the teachers can exercise over willing students, can be traced back to the teachers' fundamental love and caring for the

students.

Of the schools that actually place emphasis on the non-academic development of their students, not many actually succeed. I don't think I am qualified enough to analyze just how GGIS achieves this remarkable success with their students, but I am rather confident it has to do with the school's unique approach to educating students. The school's name used to be Greater Grace Christian Academy earlier. In this approach, the remarkable patience, yet remarkable authority that the teachers can exercise over willing students, can be traced back to the teachers' fundamental love and caring for the students. Few teachers are as excellent as to love all of their students enough to help, guide, and mentor them patiently and correctly. Yet at GGIS, all teachers are like this. I could always count on my teachers (or the librarian, the office staff, anyone) to provide helpful and patient assistance, and I think this rubs off on the students. The atmosphere of the school certainly reflects onto the students to an enormous degree. In terms of character, GGIS produces sterling graduates.

The method of applying love to teaching does not mean producing 'coddled' students, because love is not about making students' life easier, but about making their education

better.

The same motivation that the teachers demonstrate can also be seen in the management of the school; that is, in the variety of programs organized for the students. During the time I was at GGIS, the school established about 6-7 new elective classes, all of high quality and that generated great interest in the students academically. This leads me to my next point, the academic quality of the school. I have not talked about it much, but not for lack of material to write about. The method of applying love to teaching does not mean producing 'coddled' students, because love is not about making students' life easier, but about making their education better. Thus the principles applied, in practice, make students more motivated, more interested, and more enthusiastic about their studies and also about extra-curricular activities that make a well-rounded individual than in other public schools I have been able to observe.

In summary, I consider it a very special privilege to have attended an institution of the quality, on all levels, of GGIS!