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Academic Enhancement Tools: Power in Family Relationships Builds Student Academic Success, Parent Manual
Academic Enhancement Tools: Power in Family Relationships Builds Student Academic Success, Parent Manual
Academic Enhancement Tools: Power in Family Relationships Builds Student Academic Success, Parent Manual
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Academic enhancement activities were practiced in high school for ten years and involved over fifteen hundred families. The participation rate was over 90 percent. Students in the twelve to fifteen-year range participated with their parents. The ten activities focused on identifying natural interests, likes, and preferences the student had demonstrated from age three to the present. These activities are used to identify competencies/skills that lead the student to logical career, family, and community options.


Parents provide objective advice and information to assist the student to discover their natural traits. School personnel can manage the process and give suggestions that fit the school curriculum and provide options for the future. It is the student and then the parent(s) that are the prime decision-makers with this process. The activities rely on objective information from parents, students, school, business and the community.


The process draws from each to promote student academic enhancement. Remember, schools prepare students for success in each of these areas. It is reasonable that direction should come from outside and within the educational community for student planning and school curriculum changes. Parents are the prime resource because they know the student well and work in these areas of the community.


The resources outlined were determined by the general learning weakness seen during the student-parent meetings.

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Release dateSep 13, 2024
ISBN9798895161173
Academic Enhancement Tools: Power in Family Relationships Builds Student Academic Success, Parent Manual
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Keith Bricker

Worked with parents, students, and business for forty years. Provided a unique perspective to enhance academic success from the power ingrained in family relationships. The author’s specialist degree in education/counseling for teaching science, high school social studies, working as a school counselor, and teaching management courses at the college level provided the background to connect the student and parent(s) with business to enhance student success.

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    Academic Enhancement Tools - Keith Bricker

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    Academic Enhancement Tools

    Keith Bricker

    Copyright © 2024 by Keith Bricker

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    All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or manner, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the express written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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    Created in the United States of America

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2023923788

    ISBN: Softcover 979-8-89516-116-6

    e-Book 979-8-89516-117-3

    Republished by: PageTurner Press and Media LLC

    Publication Date: 09/13/2024

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    To order copies of this book, contact:

    PageTurner Press and Media

    Phone: 1-888-447-9651

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    Empowering Students for Academic Enhancement

    All working together provides the knowledge and relationships

    needed for student life role decision making.

    Note: The family is the most influential factor for a student in

    making healthy life decisions and staying in school.

    Contents

    Empowering Students for Academic Enhancement vii

    Observations for the Success Model xv

    Empowering Students for Academic Enhancement (Purpose) 1

    Information Area 1: Interests Past and Present 13

    Activity 1: Competencies from Interests Activities 15

    Activity 2: Interest from Past and Present Activities 17

    Activity 3: Interest List 21

    Information Area 2: Competencies Identification 24

    Activity 4: Competency Selection Activity 25

    Activity 5: Additional Competency Reference List 28

    Activity 6: Compiling a Competency List 33

    Information Area 3: Standardized Test Scores 36

    Activity 7: Work Sheet for Analyzing Standardized Test Scores 39

    Information Area 4: Interest Inventories 43

    Activity 8: Interest Inventory 45

    Information Area 5: Academic Patterns 47

    Activity 9: Analyzing Grades 49

    Information Area 6: Community Involvement 51

    Activity 10: Community Service 54

    Activity 11: Summary Information of Activities 1-10 56

    Resource 1: Problem-Solving Model 59

    Resource 2: Motivation 67

    Resource 3: Learning How to Learn 74

    Resource 4: Shadowing Employers 83

    Resource 5: Post-High School Resources 87

    Additional References 90

    Empowering Students for Academic Enhancement

    Community Service

    Volunteerism

    Church

    Political

    Family

    Student

    12 to 15

    Career Track

    Training

    Shadowing

    Mentoring

    Education

    All working together provides the knowledge and relationships needed for student life role decision making.

    Note: The family is the most influential factor for a student in making healthy life decisions and staying in school. This model is designed to identify criteria for future life-role decisions. Twelve to fifteen years of age is too young for those choices. The criteria for those decisions have roots from age four to the present.

    Note: The student profile from activity eleven can be used for making decisions regarding careers, family, politics, religion and volunteerism.

    Empowering Students for Academic Enhancement

    Managed by the Family

    CEO

    Empowering Students for Academic Enhancement is the result of forty-plus years working as a public school and college instructor in science, social studies, and management courses and as a high school guidance counselor with a specialist degree and an LPC license. The ideas come from listening to and interacting with parents, students, and the business community. It is nothing short of amazing what can be learned from each of these groups when the objectives are to enhance the student’s academic performance in school by having realistic goals and with the parent as the main adviser. This approach gives a commitment to student learning. This manual, written for parents, provides tools that can be used to support their students’ academic enhancement.

    Going through the information topics, resources, and activities will take time and patience. There is no shortcut to constructive student learning. The competencies/skills identified, with their academic application, can bring short- and long-term success for the student in his career options and other basic life choices.

    The goal is to establish a connection between the family, the school, the community, and the business to provide a method for the student to discover the cognitive data needed to establish individual goals and enhance his academic success. Those goals need to be guided by integrity, a strong work ethic, and balance between aggressiveness and showing a humble spirit to achieve the level of confidence needed for success.

    Corporate and Education Policies can Promote Student Success and Increase Stakeholder’s Equity

    Ideas to consider:

    Have a base salary, then build in bonus options for:

    Creative teaching techniques developed by the teacher and then used by others through administrative promotion.

    Pre-determined percent improvement in student learning measured by pre and post testing.

    Give teachers an option to accept 25% increase in class size. If student learning is equal to or better than the building average for that subject, the teacher could get a bonus with some of the saving going to the district. If four teachers were successful the district would need one less teacher and thereby save on insurance and other costs.

    Ongoing communication between individual teachers and local business that work in the teachers’ curriculum

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