Fundamental School Curriculum, Third Cycle: Spanish (Elective), Year 8

This volume is one of ten disciplinary volumes of the third-cycle curriculum of the fundamental school, issued by the Ministry of National Education through the Institut Pédagogique National for the 1989-1990 school year. It opens with a preamble and with the ends and general objectives of Haitian education, the objectives and principles of the third cycle, and the study plan of the fundamental school with its weekly time allocation. It then gives the program for the discipline: an introduction, the general objectives, the framework program, the detailed operational program, a progression grid and a selective bibliography of school textbooks.

The Spanish program is set out for a language option, with an hours allocation of two hours a week over 30 school weeks. It starts from a diagnosis that Spanish teaching in Haiti had lacked a developed program with defined objectives, thematic content and vocabulary, and that earlier teaching rested on grammar rules and translation. The program was prepared by a special commission organized in sub-commissions by discipline, with technical support from the Haiti/UNDP/UNESCO education project.