Explicit instruction to guide students toward taking charge of their outlook
on academic endeavors can lead to a more positive — and ultimately more productive — approach to learning.
The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration
on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.
Not exact matches
For example, we have directors who draw
on their multinational business experience; those who bring entrepreneurial perspectives; those who have been devoted to
academic, research, government service, and philanthropic
endeavors; and those who lead financial institutions, to name a few.
In this way, we seek to avoid the two - sided performer - user pitfall that we have observed in earlier and related federal agency
endeavors to promote research / knowledge utilization:
on the one hand, requiring or inducing
academic grantees to torque or overstate their research findings in order to connect to immediate policy issues;
on the other hand, creating unrealistic or premature expectations
on the part of users that early stage fundamental research will be directly relevant to their immediate needs, leading them to be disappointed or disenchanted when well conceived and implemented
academic studies fail to produce such information.
Arts and
academics are not separate
endeavors here; they are deeply connected disciplines, and teachers draw
on the rigors of one to feed another.
The current emphasis
on college and career readiness focuses not only
on academic skills needed for students to maximize their potential, but also
on the aspirations students need to develop the knowledge, drive, and motivation to pursue future
endeavors.
The Academies of Pre-Engineering, Pre-Business, and Health & General Medicine at Renaissance Charter School at Central Palm provide qualified students with a curriculum of
academic rigor, integrated with hands -
on experiences in preparation for future
endeavors in high school and college.
We also offer Academies of Pre-Engineering, Pre-Business, and Health & General Medicine to provide qualified students with a curriculum of
academic rigor, integrated with hands -
on experiences in preparation for future
endeavors in high school and college.
While not much research has been done
on programs with this structure (mostly because not many yet exist), we maintain that if all afterschool programs can establish strong building blocks in these core areas, success in
academics, social situations, and their future life
endeavors will come far easier.
A CV,
on one hand, is a detailed overview of your life's
endeavors, the ones that are most relevant to the
academic realm.