JoAnna Arnold

Service Learning Coordinator, French and Spanish Advisor

229-931-8667

jarnold@furlowcharter.org

K-6 French, Spanish and High School Service Learning

2019 Sumter County District Teacher of the Year 

2018 Furlow Charter School Teacher of the Year
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Jubilee International Studies Club

An international club at our school provides scholars additional opportunities to become involved with service projects, both locally and internationally.  This club helps students answer the question: What will you do with what you are learning? Jubilee International Club teaches kids about serving and giving to others. Scholars may join at any time during the year.  We have four meetings per year during school hours.

 

Jubilee International Studies Mission Statement:  We will guide our scholars to…

  • Engage others as part of a global community by effectively communicating in foreign languages
  • Identify the differences that make them unique and gain respect for the talents and contributions of others
  • Appreciate the diversity in our community and these effects on American culture
  • Utilize their new skills so they can be applied in the real world
  • Emerge as dynamic members of our school and embrace the challenges of making a meaningful difference
 

Biography

JoAnna Arnold, an enthusiastic educator of French, Spanish, and English, lives in Americus, Georgia, with her husband and three children. Currently, she serves as the Advisor of Foreign Languages for K-12, Dean of Bridges, and Coordinator of Service Learning at Furlow Charter School. Arnold earned a BS in International Business and a Master of French Studies from Auburn University, as well as a Master of Education in French from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. At age 30, she began studying Spanish and also holds certifications in English and ESOL. Arnold nurtures an insatiable desire to visit new places and people. From these experiences, she has developed her passion for teaching, which is reflected in her motto: “Believe. Speak. Go.” 

Arnold has 26 years of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary experience, and her classroom has evolved into a place where students have meaningful opportunities to take risks, make mistakes, and grow from them. After seventeen years of teaching high school, she accepted a challenge to design and implement a French and Spanish FLEX program for elementary students along with middle high foreign language. She feels that a teacher’s ability to show students how they will use what they are learning enhances their desire to learn. Arnold encourages her students to respect differences in cultures as they build relationships with diverse groups of people. Through innovative teaching methods with music, movement, and technology, Arnold inspires her students to use their developing language skills to evaluate and meet the needs of their world.

 

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