Population: 0-19 years old
Recommended for: 2-8 years old
Helen Dolan English was founded by Ms. Helen Dolan, a linguistics and education expert from the United Kingdom, who was inspired by observing her children's violin lessons and combined her professional background to create Helen Dolan English, which mimics the process of mother tongue acquisition. Today, Helen Dolan English has more than 80 franchises, 800 learning centers, more than 4,000 teachers and more than 100,000 students worldwide.
Helen Dolan English grasps this learning characteristic of children, strictly follows the process of listening-speaking-reading-writing mother tongue absorption, and uses games, sports, music and other interesting ways to cultivate reading and writing skills after children acquire language sense, pronunciation and listening skills.
Helen Dolan adopts two teaching methods: foreign teachers and Chinese and foreign teachers, and the course fee for a single class is between 150-400. The all-foreign teacher course is twice a week, and the fee for the course will be more expensive. On the other hand, Chinese and foreign teachers teach twice a week, and are taught by Chinese and foreign teachers respectively. In terms of teacher qualifications, all of its teachers have teaching qualifications. Because their learning methods are different from traditional teaching methods, incoming teachers will be trained in the teaching methods of trainers at Helen Dolan headquarters, and can only take up their posts after they are qualified.
Helen Dolan's 23 campuses are located all over Shanghai, and most of them are located in major shopping malls and pay great attention to keeping the interior clean and tidy. There are no interactive whiteboards and multimedia teaching equipment, but more than 25,000 kinds of physical teaching aids covering all aspects of life, 70% of which are made by teachers themselves. In the case of the Xuhui campus in Riyueguang, for example, everyone who enters the campus wears shoe covers, and parents can see through the rectangular glass windows of the room when their children are in class. During the lesson, the teacher sat with 6-8 children and vividly explained the relevant knowledge with physical teaching aids. Children who sit in a group with the teacher are not easily distracted in class, and it can also increase the intimacy between teachers and students. The participation of teaching aids can enhance children's participation in activities and interest in learning, and at the same time guide children to expand their imagination and let them understand the English content in an immersive way. With the help of teaching aids and the teacher's rich body language, children can receive visual, auditory and tactile stimuli at the same time, so that they can quickly establish cognition of objects, and then understand the concepts and meanings behind these objects and actions, leaving a deep impression in their minds.
It is worth mentioning that Helen Dolan's class time is 45 minutes each time, and its mother tongue experiential teaching method requires children to have a long-term ear grinding process, so parents should also often play Helen Doland's English after-class CD, so that children can continue to be exposed to English and cultivate English listening.
