ESA

English For Self Awareness

The first few years of a child's life go by so quickly. As teachers we ask ourselves what we want to impress on our young learners. Rather than ask what we can teach our students we endeavour to ask ourselves what can we help them discover. Our answer is English for Self Awareness.

Over the past 10 years ESA has been used in more than 250 schools throughout Japan. ESA is rooted in 2 essential ideas. Every person is different, and these differences make each individual a special, wonderful human being and the fact we are unique makes us all the same. We express this to our young learners as You are special, I am special, We are all special!

The ESA curriculum was born from the idea that each of us are given a wonderful opportunity to help lead children on a path of self discovery, compassion, and ultimately the life long satisfaction of knowing how to care for themselves and others; knowing how to live happily.

Our 3 year ESA curriculum explores the themes of Caring, Healthy Living, Co-Operation, Environment, Safety, Responsibility and Trust, Respect and Acceptance, and Challenging, Risk Taking, and Trying New Things.

ESA is the embodiment of our "inspire to Inquire" philosophy. Inspiring young students to explore themes and ideas that give them the tools to become world citizens is the mission of our ESA curriculum.