1. Launch individual Dreams Preferred Portfolios while relaxing in an air conditioned lodge or in the sunshine on the deck--From inside: windows wide to the lake and trees of the park.
Breakfast: Cereal, Locally grown fruit (blueberries, strawberries, peaches--in season, locally baked pecan rolls and zucchini bread (from locally grown zucchini and pecans),boiled eggs and egg salad from free-range chickens (fed 'clean' wholesome food).
Book Circle Selection: Brief Introduction of one of the recommended books for upcoming review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and her husband and daughters: The family resolves to live on local provenance. This book is recommended by several professors to incoming college freshmen. One of the daughters writing in the book is a student at Duke University (science and dance). http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/
2. Your Story: Begin with Table of Contentment: Introduction to Individual Portfolio: Flash Drive and Disk Storage of Curious Learner work products.
Recreation Interval (RI): Restrooms are in lodge. Bottled water is provided room temperature and refrigerated. Relax in chairs on Wide Deck. Play volleyball and croquet on wide grassy lawn next to lake, music and exercise video in lodge room facing the trees and lake. A variety of snacks are available. Movie and scrabble, chess, checkers video programs are available--no Internet during seminars, though Internet guidance is provided for web quests.
Important Note: Allergies: The food at the seminars includes peanuts, other tree nuts, cheese, eggs, and other ingredients not guaranteed 'allergy-free' for everyone. We provide refrigeration and warmup of snacks and meals you bring. Make teachers aware of any allergies.--bring allergy-free snacks and order allergy-free food from our choices. Check in foods for refrigeration, and we will check them in with a label and store them in accessible area refrigerator (2 on site).
3. Chapter I: You are the Lead in Your Story: Use evaluation and assessment to YOUR advantage: We teach Personal Use of Standardized Tests: Full practice SAT test. Over three hours of first seminar will be the full practice test as chosen from one of the Princeton Review books, sometimes shuffled from more than one practice guide. The time for each section of the test is the same as for the real test. There are some breaks not included in the 'real' test. The breaks are to foreshadow the upcoming support the students will receive in preparing for the actual standardized tests.
Begin plan for each student, customized to the student, for the student's use with us in upcoming courses and seminars. (Teach the student how some teachers use a 'tic-tac-toe' approach to studies as a differentiation technique. Show the student ways to use this approach herself or himself.)
We use Princeton Review publications for the practice tests and strategy sessions. We use many other resources, depending upon the customized plans for each student.
The view of the lake and the trees, all the time, is spectacular and soothing for a relaxed studying atmosphere. Test conditions while practicing are the same as for the official tests--except for the view, the provision of water, peppermints, and an additional break to explain why accommodations are sometimes provide--and how to get those accommodations if you are eligible.
Links and information provided to contact the College Board.
Frequent information is given throughout the day about using the College Board site in a variety of ways: www.collegeboard.com The site has registration information, eligibility for accommodations details, day of test preparation, and so much more to help in other studies on a daily basis.
Word Pro, Inc.'s owner, Judy Cooper, writes a column in response to many of the SAT Questions for the Day on this site: www.coolrocketschool.org (See the archives, e.g., Rocketcat's RACECAR strategy.)
A handout with the links to find out more about how to apply for accommodations is provided to each participant. We give an overview of the accommodations with the dates they are decided for each test.
BOOKS, FILMS, PLAYS, AND POETRY--for Cool Rocket School's Curious Learners.
During meals and snacks all day, we talk about the science and pleasure of pesticide-free, organic, and/or locally produced foods, supporting local businesses and farms with the book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and her family.
Other books and films used in Word Pro Inc.'s supportive seminars: Films: Animals are Beautiful People, October Sky, Akeelah and the Bee, Finding Forrester
Books: Ariadne; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; Great Expectations A Separate Peace, To Kill A Mockingbird, Silent Spring, Wings for My Flight, Into Thin Air
Plays: Antigone, Julius Caesar, Pride and Prejudice
Poems: The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid
Ask for more extensive lists--contact Judy Cooper, Word Pro, Inc. wordproinc@gmail.com
Ask for information about The Curious Learners' Field Guides to use in your personal study and/or your own classrooms. The guides have disks with printable templates to use in your customized study, with quizzes, study guides, web quests; Socratic Circle and Jigsaw group discussion guides; peer-to-peer rubric evaluation guides; and rubrics to evaluate projects, web quests, examinations, and portfolios--in alignment with professional standards and best practices.
The Curious Learners' Field Guides provide students, teachers, family members, and administrators with the information to generate the information for self guidance and evaluation by the student and for assessment by the teachers for the future progress of each individual student.
For more information, contact one of the teachers at wordproinc@gmail.com or Ms. Cooper or Ms. McDowell individually: judycarolcooper@gmail.com or jmcdowell01@gmail.com
You may also call 678-938-1219.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Georgia State Parks - Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites Mark your Calendars for July 23, July 30, and/or August 14
July 23, July 30, and/or August 14, 2010 Individual and group support through weekend seminars, enrichment seminars during intersessions, field trips and college trips during school breaks, holiday and winter vacation reading circles and entertainment together.
For support, wherever you go to school--or wherever you are going in the future, on through college and career training: It's cool here. Pass this way. Learn in the park while you relax.
Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, and Picnic Dinner from local provenance--Homemade cake and/or delicious local fresh fruit for dessert! (see Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver or http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/ )
You have a great view here with us, AND we have air conditioning in a comfortable lodge setting for class.
Please DO look out the windows at the lake and trees. Please do walk out on the deck and lawn during recreational breaks. This invitation is from the teachers. Listen, take notes, add to your portfolio, and put the photographs in your mind of the lake and trees, along with the quiet, the life sounds of birds, the way the air rushes into your lungs when you step out on the deck and the lawn. Put the feeling of comfort, the feeling of creativity, the feeling of a genuine smile into your mind and body while you learn. Your mind's environment travels with you always.)
The lodge classes are handicap accessible, including easy drive up and parking for everyone.
Pass this way!!! Mark your calendar: July 23, July 30, and/or August 14, 2010 to begin--and to sign up for future support seminars, literary circles, field trips, golf lessons, horseback riding lessons and more....
We serve varieties of locally grown pesticide-free fruits and vegetables, free range chicken eggs, hormone-free cow's milk and homemade--vegetarian options available for all meals--and a cookout picnic at the end of the day with vegetarian options, also.
LIMITED SEATING FOR ACADEMIES IN THE PARK!! WE OFFER SUPPORT FOR THE STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR:
Sessions begin July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010. These sessions use Scholastic Aptitude Test preparation as the first part of the student's index in a portfolio. The use of the SAT preparation practice tests is according to the grade level of the student--beginning with a full use of the entire SAT practice guides in the 8th and 9th grade level.
Contact a teacher for details: wordproinc@gmail.com
MARK THESE DATES-July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010. Each session includes the launching session for each student. Each session stands alone, yet continues into other sessions. All future sessions from the first are continuation of the individualized program for each student.
Preparation for Standardized Tests and Production of International Baccalaureate Style Personal Portfolio begins at the park seminars with breakfast, snacks, and a picnic you will LOVE!
First sessions July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010, with registration for follow-up sessions, field trips, college trips throughout the year--on weekends, at your school, on field trips (including a field trip to Ossabaw Island). Each event or program is separate; and each is coordinated with the individual student's individual portfolio.
Private School Style instruction in public parks in Georgia includes wonderful breakfast, snacks, lunch, and dinner!
We have Pecan Rolls, Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Fruit, and Barbecue! (and Chocolate Cake, too!)
We have great food for your mind and great food for your brain and body from local provenance and local caterers.
Be a Cool Rocket School "Park Academy" student through the courses provided by the experienced teachers of Word Pro, Inc.
From zucchini bread and pecan rolls with your cereal, juice, milk, and eggs for breakfast to your fresh salads, to your barbecue dinner, the local fresh food provides an experience you will love!
First sessions: July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010
This is an academy in the park model designed by the owner of Word Pro, Inc.
Among other texts provided in the seminars, each student uses the Princeton Review practice tests and other practice activities from the various Princeton Review publications supplementing the Princeton Review's guides to the Scholastic Aptitude Test. We explain and study the use of the SAT and other standardized tests as tools for the student's individual portfolios.
Lead Curious Learners:
Judy C. Cooper, University of Georgia graduate; Certified in Georgia to teach Gifted, English, Reading, and Exceptional Education.
Ms. Cooper specializes in individual tutoring. She designs and implements individual plans and programs for students in private school and in public school.
Ms. Cooper teaches classes of one-six students in Advanced Placement World Literature, American Literature, and British Literature, Senior level, and other grade levels. She adjusts strategies for learners to include the development of personal gifts in all learning experiences.
Ms. Cooper's ideal for teaching is to help learners to pursue happiness. Her emphasis in teaching is on the verb 'pursue' happiness.
In addition to extensive experience in private tutoring, she has taught in public and private school, including Brandon Hall, a private school in Atlanta. She writes the Curious Learners' Field Guides in consultation with Ms. Jody McDowell, another Curious Learner Lead Teacher in the Park.
Jody McDowell, MAT, Specialist Degrees, Converse College, Experienced Latin teacher/Northside High School of Performing Arts, Atlanta. Ms. McDowell's ideal for teaching is to help learners to celebrate connections from the ancient to the modern. Ms. McDowell emphasizes embracing the eternal braid of cultural contributions to each learner's individuality. Ms. McDowell is renowned for promotion of community and international activities when she taught in Atlanta and Roswell--with an active Latin Club of over 100 members.
Ms. McDowell planned international trips and accompanied students on trips to Italy, mentoring students in cultural activities in Atlanta and abroad. Ms. McDowell spent her own student summers in Spain and in Greece.
Ms. McDowell and Ms. Cooper plan college trips and field trips for students throughout the year for small groups to attend plays, the High Museum, reading circles in restaurants, Fernbank IMAX, events at Emory University, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia.
See websites below for lodging, golf, horseback riding, and other options available for families of the students who choose to stay for a day in the park, too. There are cottages, lodges for sleeping, and campsites here. The accommodations are gracious, comfortable, and beautiful.
Georgia State Parks - Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites
For support, wherever you go to school--or wherever you are going in the future, on through college and career training: It's cool here. Pass this way. Learn in the park while you relax.
Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, and Picnic Dinner from local provenance--Homemade cake and/or delicious local fresh fruit for dessert! (see Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver or http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/ )
You have a great view here with us, AND we have air conditioning in a comfortable lodge setting for class.
Please DO look out the windows at the lake and trees. Please do walk out on the deck and lawn during recreational breaks. This invitation is from the teachers. Listen, take notes, add to your portfolio, and put the photographs in your mind of the lake and trees, along with the quiet, the life sounds of birds, the way the air rushes into your lungs when you step out on the deck and the lawn. Put the feeling of comfort, the feeling of creativity, the feeling of a genuine smile into your mind and body while you learn. Your mind's environment travels with you always.)
The lodge classes are handicap accessible, including easy drive up and parking for everyone.
Pass this way!!! Mark your calendar: July 23, July 30, and/or August 14, 2010 to begin--and to sign up for future support seminars, literary circles, field trips, golf lessons, horseback riding lessons and more....
We serve varieties of locally grown pesticide-free fruits and vegetables, free range chicken eggs, hormone-free cow's milk and homemade--vegetarian options available for all meals--and a cookout picnic at the end of the day with vegetarian options, also.
LIMITED SEATING FOR ACADEMIES IN THE PARK!! WE OFFER SUPPORT FOR THE STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR:
Sessions begin July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010. These sessions use Scholastic Aptitude Test preparation as the first part of the student's index in a portfolio. The use of the SAT preparation practice tests is according to the grade level of the student--beginning with a full use of the entire SAT practice guides in the 8th and 9th grade level.
Contact a teacher for details: wordproinc@gmail.com
MARK THESE DATES-July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010. Each session includes the launching session for each student. Each session stands alone, yet continues into other sessions. All future sessions from the first are continuation of the individualized program for each student.
Preparation for Standardized Tests and Production of International Baccalaureate Style Personal Portfolio begins at the park seminars with breakfast, snacks, and a picnic you will LOVE!
First sessions July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010, with registration for follow-up sessions, field trips, college trips throughout the year--on weekends, at your school, on field trips (including a field trip to Ossabaw Island). Each event or program is separate; and each is coordinated with the individual student's individual portfolio.
Private School Style instruction in public parks in Georgia includes wonderful breakfast, snacks, lunch, and dinner!
We have Pecan Rolls, Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Fruit, and Barbecue! (and Chocolate Cake, too!)
We have great food for your mind and great food for your brain and body from local provenance and local caterers.
Be a Cool Rocket School "Park Academy" student through the courses provided by the experienced teachers of Word Pro, Inc.
From zucchini bread and pecan rolls with your cereal, juice, milk, and eggs for breakfast to your fresh salads, to your barbecue dinner, the local fresh food provides an experience you will love!
First sessions: July 23, July 30, and August 14, 2010
This is an academy in the park model designed by the owner of Word Pro, Inc.
Among other texts provided in the seminars, each student uses the Princeton Review practice tests and other practice activities from the various Princeton Review publications supplementing the Princeton Review's guides to the Scholastic Aptitude Test. We explain and study the use of the SAT and other standardized tests as tools for the student's individual portfolios.
Lead Curious Learners:
Judy C. Cooper, University of Georgia graduate; Certified in Georgia to teach Gifted, English, Reading, and Exceptional Education.
Ms. Cooper specializes in individual tutoring. She designs and implements individual plans and programs for students in private school and in public school.
Ms. Cooper teaches classes of one-six students in Advanced Placement World Literature, American Literature, and British Literature, Senior level, and other grade levels. She adjusts strategies for learners to include the development of personal gifts in all learning experiences.
Ms. Cooper's ideal for teaching is to help learners to pursue happiness. Her emphasis in teaching is on the verb 'pursue' happiness.
In addition to extensive experience in private tutoring, she has taught in public and private school, including Brandon Hall, a private school in Atlanta. She writes the Curious Learners' Field Guides in consultation with Ms. Jody McDowell, another Curious Learner Lead Teacher in the Park.
Jody McDowell, MAT, Specialist Degrees, Converse College, Experienced Latin teacher/Northside High School of Performing Arts, Atlanta. Ms. McDowell's ideal for teaching is to help learners to celebrate connections from the ancient to the modern. Ms. McDowell emphasizes embracing the eternal braid of cultural contributions to each learner's individuality. Ms. McDowell is renowned for promotion of community and international activities when she taught in Atlanta and Roswell--with an active Latin Club of over 100 members.
Ms. McDowell planned international trips and accompanied students on trips to Italy, mentoring students in cultural activities in Atlanta and abroad. Ms. McDowell spent her own student summers in Spain and in Greece.
Ms. McDowell and Ms. Cooper plan college trips and field trips for students throughout the year for small groups to attend plays, the High Museum, reading circles in restaurants, Fernbank IMAX, events at Emory University, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia.
See websites below for lodging, golf, horseback riding, and other options available for families of the students who choose to stay for a day in the park, too. There are cottages, lodges for sleeping, and campsites here. The accommodations are gracious, comfortable, and beautiful.
Georgia State Parks - Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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