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Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You
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Like heart disease, says psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. In this refreshingly sensible book, O’Connor focuses on an additional factor often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression. We learn how to hide it, how to work around it. We may even achieve great things, but with constant struggle rather than satisfaction. Relying on these methods to mak… More >>
Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You
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Life Lessons: How Our Morality Can Teach Us About Life and Living
A guide to facing life’s challenges, in answer to the question: “Is this really how I want to live my life?”. This book covers 14 crucial areas: identity, love and relationships, loss and fear, power, time, tolerance, patience, surrender, guilt, happiness, play and creativity…. More >>
Life Lessons: How Our Morality Can Teach Us About Life and Living
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What a Parent Volunteer Program Does For a School
Parent volunteers and an effective school volunteer program can enhance the perform of students, enrich the curriculum, enhance a school’s image, improve teacher relationships and provide an array of job skills. Learn about the benefits of creating a school volunteer program and why recruiting and training parent volunteers is a must effective parent involvement.
A Parent Volunteer Program Enriches the Curriculum
A teacher’s job can be overwhelming. Yet many of these activities can be handled efficiently by others, notably, parent or school volunteers. When teachers are freed from the routine and ordinary responsibilities of duplicating, preparing materials, clerical tasks, grading papers, and the like, they have more time to explore and develop ideas that will enhance, support, and reinforce the curriculum and student learning.
Student Achievement Increased
In addition to the benefit of extra help, studies continue to taut the positive effects of parent involvement on student achievement. Active parent participation is known for raising student scores, higher grades, increase in student achievement, cultivating positive attitudes about school by both parents and students, enhanced motivation and self esteem and overall satisfaction with teachers.
Students Receive More Individualized Attention
Another advantage to an effective volunteer program is the additional individualized attention students will receive. Most classrooms consist of 20-34 students with only one instructor. It is literally impossible for classroom teachers to sufficient time with struggling students. Unfortunately, this can result in some students falling through the cracks and/or not receiving the extra help needed for success. Teachers can train and utilize volunteers to assist with individualized and small group instruction to enhance student learning.
School Image Enhanced
With all the negative publicity associated with schools around the country, a successful parent volunteer program is one way to gain some kudos for your school. Happy and empowered school volunteers will be your greatest mouth-piece and ally for the school. The parent grapevine is a strong and vital source that transmits information throughout the school site and community at large. You will be projecting to the community how much you value parents and their input into their child’s success.
Teacher Appreciation Improves
Do you know that many parents are just as intimidated of teachers as teachers are of parents? Many parents, especially those of diverse backgrounds, have had negative school experiences. They have experienced negative teacher attitudes and unwelcoming school atmospheres and may feel uncomfortable even being on a school campus. Your willingness you reach out and make parents a crucial part of your school programs helps to bridge these gaps and elevate the appreciation for both teachers and the school in general.
Enhance Job Skills
When you recruit and train parents to volunteer you are also increasing their work skills for future employment. Whether parents are assisting you with your reading program, using the copy or laminating machines, or editing writing prompts, they are learning valuable skills that will benefit themselves, their children, and the school for years to come.
Reduces Discipline Problems
Having parents around greatly reduces discipline problems within your classroom and at the school. When parents volunteer they send the message to their children that education is important. This translates into high expectations for learning to take place. In addition, students tend to be on their best behavior when their parents are present.
Teachers Morale Improves
Teachers have one of the highest attrition rates in the workforce. Long hours, high stress, little reward and recognition, lower pay, and increasing work loads contribute to the high burnout rates. The average teacher stays in the profession approximately 5 years before seeking greener pastures. Teachers must make balancing their life a priority, otherwise burnout and stress will creep in and dampen their spirits. Balanced teachers are happier teachers and happy teachers create the most effective learning environments for student success.
Student Motivation Increases
Research indicates that students of involved parents have a more favorable attitude toward school. A positive attitude will result in more engaged students, increased learning, less absenteeism, and better grades.
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Preparing For College – Using a Distance Learning Private School
In the competitive world of college admissions, today’s parents are looking for anything that will allow their children to be on equal ground with the country’s best and brightest minds. In some cases, parents will resort to everything from individual tutoring to supplemental classes in order to better prepare their students for admission and success in college. For the parent who is homeschooling their child, the most popular option for preparing a child for college comes in the form of enrollment in a distance learning private school.
A distance learning private school often represents the most popular method of preparing a homeschooled child for college. While parents of traditionally schooled children have to supplement the curriculum their child receives with tutoring and prep courses, parents who elect to enroll their child in a distance learning program can receive a comprehensive program that does all of that and more.
Distance learning private schools come with all of the benefits of a structured and traditional curriculum, but none of the drawbacks and problems of a traditional public and private school. For starters, distance learning private schools, like their traditional counterparts, can deliver lessons that are in line with state and/or national standards. In fact, many distance learning private schools are officially accredited by the same organizations that accredit and license traditional schools. Distance learning private schools, again like traditional schools, are also staffed by highly-qualified and credentialed teachers that are experts in the particular subject matter they are teaching.
Where the two approaches to education begin to separate is in the environment in which lessons are delivered. While traditional schools are often overcrowded and dangerous, students who attend distance learning private schools deliver their lessons in the comfort and safety of the child’s home. By not having to worry about personal safety or comfort, students can better focus their efforts on learning specific information or a particular lesson.
Since they are not tied down by the same issues and problems that traditional schools suffer from, distance learning programs can focus their efforts on educating students. Programs of study can be individually tailored to meet the needs of individual students, whether that means altering the pace of the lessons or the material being taught and covered.
By avoiding many of the environmental problems that currently plague most traditional public and private schools and focusing their efforts and attention on education and preparation, distance learning private schools have proven themselves to be extremely effective in preparing students not just for admission into the college of their choice, but for success at that college as well. Today’s distance learning private schools, with their official accreditation, credentialed teachers, and individual and unique approaches to education have placed themselves at the top in terms of the factor that most prepares students for college. In fact, homeschooled children who have been enrolled in distance learning programs often score higher on standardized tests, and receive admission to the college of their choice at a higher rate than students who attend traditional schools, or children who are homeschooled without the benefits of a distance learning program.
To learn more about a quality, distance learning program please visit Laurel Springs School. Laurel Springs School is an accredited, college prep private school offering distance learning programs and teacher services for students in grades K-12. Laurel Springs uses web-based communication tools, a standards-based curriculum, and personalized instruction to offer students the highest quality home education experience based on your child’s learning style.
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