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Loyola School Of Education's Language, Culture, And Curriculum

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Armeen Sayani, a 2018 Loyola alumna, has continued to impact Loyola and its surrounding communities long past her graduation. Sayani is pursuing her Master’s degree through Loyola School of Education’s Language, Culture, and Curriculum program while working as a teacher at Chicagoland’s Old Orchard Junior High School.

The School of Education’s Language, Culture, and Curriculum program is a project-based curriculum that focuses on allowing teachers to implement new ideas in the classroom right away. “It makes you feel like the work you're doing has purpose and meaning. You can make change with the stuff you’re learning right away. It inspires passion and motivation for what you’re doing in the classroom,” says Sayani.

Within Loyola’s classrooms, Sayani believes that the school refreshes her values as an educator and reminds her of what originally sparked her love for teaching. “You meet students from different places with different types of experiences and you begin to build a community,” says Sayani. “As a teacher, you take what you learn from that community and apply it to the school [where] you’re teaching. I feel like I’m growing in so many ways.”
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Sayani has tried to incorporate the languages of her students into the classroom through multilingual decorations and discussions. By doing so, she hopes to take the necessary steps to create a more meaningful education for those in her class. One of the most important things to understand–also a priority bolstered by cura personalis–is that each child must be seen as their own whole, individual being. Individualizing teaching practices to meet the needs of all students is a key concept taught at Loyola. This approach creates classrooms where children feel seen, heard, and

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