TeachBahrain’s School Foundation Program is inspired by the late Marva Delores Collins. Marva Collins took in students who were rejected from schools in Chicago. She treated them like geniuses who were previously labelled by schools as learning disabled, retarded or emotionally disturbed. Their parents had also given up on them which is not surprising as the schools they were paying, rather than doing their work, were blaming and labelling their children. Again, not surprising as this still happens in our society today!
She started teaching these so-called retarded kids (as labelled by schools) by encouraging them to read the likes of Aristotle, Tolstoy and Shakespeare, and her hard work paid off when wealthy suburban high school students were unable to match the intellectual abilities of her students.
“OUR VISION IS TO WELCOME STUDENTS OF ALL GIFTS, AND WITHOUT LABELING THEM, MOULD THEM INTO TESLA’S OF TOMORROW!”
Every book has numbered pages - the process of reading. If a student has not understood the previous pages, was neglected at school or experienced other forms of neglect, advanced reading becomes far more difficult. Many factors contribute to a student’s unwillingness to learn or study. Bullying and neglect are two of the biggest causes of student drop-out rates. When a student ‘doesn’t get it’, it essentially means that their foundation is weak and they need help. Once we fix the foundation, the rest of the building will be strong!
In this program we focus on building their foundation in core academic areas like reading, speaking, writing, mathematics, history, geography, business, economics, ICT, science and much more. We want our students to have knowledge in different areas of academia in order to mould them into intellectuals of tomorrow
Very often, students simply don’t understand, or comprehend what they are reading. It could be because English is not their first language or they simply have difficulty understanding the content. As parents, we need to understand how important it is to help our children read and learn to comprehend. Poor comprehension skills affect every subject that is written in English.
Like the domino effect, solving that problem leads to solving others down the line. Reading is an essential habit, and it will not only provide benefits at school, but also lay the foundation for University and future career success. At University level, reading will pave the way for success with assignments, and in work life it will help with innovation, knowledge and many more benefits.
Like the domino effect, solving that problem leads to solving others down the line. Reading is an essential habit, and it will not only provide benefits at school, but also lay the foundation for University and future career success. At University level, reading will pave the way for success with assignments, and in work life it will help with innovation, knowledge and many more benefits.
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