Announcing a New Mini-Course from the MegaSkills Education Center
RAISING TEST SCORES THROUGH MEGASKILLS
Half Day Faculty Inservice
Learn How-To's for Using MegaSkills to Build Children's
Learning Abilities to Meet Reading and Academic Standards
Learn How-To's for Involving Parents In Building Children's
MegaSkills at Home
Available for the first time in spring 2002 regionally in the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, DC, Eastern Pennsylvania, Eastern North Carolina area.
Selected school districts will be invited to send teams of educators to the half-day trainings in their area. Fees will be $100 per participant with a min. of 40 participants required. Individual school districts may sponsor the program for $4000 fee and send an unlimited number of participants. Fees include a concise reproducible package of materials for the participating educators to use in introducing the program to more educators in their own school and to parents at PTA meetings and related events.
PLUS: for those enrolled in this program, new classroom and parent materials from the MegaSkills Education Center will be made available at a special discount.
MegaSkills are our "inner engines of learning"
... in school and beyond. The MegaSkills are: Confidence,
Motivation, Effort, Responsibility, Initiative, Perseverance,
Caring, Teamwork, Common Sense, Problem Solving and
Focus. They are today's information basics.
For educators
- To build students' inner capacities for academic
success: foster their motivation and encourage self-responsibility
for learning
- To introduce MegaSkills and explore how they build the desire to read and support overall academic success
- To foster the classroom environment that supports student success
- To discuss the parent connection that supports student learning
For parents
- To introduce MegaSkills and how they work
- To identify the hallmarks of a successful student
- To explore solutions (as time permits) to typical problems faced by parents
Re the home/school connection:
- To provide sample home learning activities that foster MegaSkills
- To introduce the Family Home Report Card concept
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