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START
UP '99
Welcome to the Darton College PREP
Program! We are
excited about your decision to become a part of our PREP team.
Our plan is to offer you a variety of meaningful
experiences that will enable you to decide your future after high
school.
We
at Darton College would like for you to visit the campus and see
how exciting college life can be.
You will love choosing your schedule, teachers, and
subjects. College is AFFORDABLE! Countless resources are there to
help with the financial needs of students.
During
this year in PREP, you will receive career information to help you
discover how to use the gifts and talents you possess.
Your special interests will help guide you to a career that
is especially designed for you.
Ola
Hill-Abdullah
New PREP Coordinator
"A ship in the port is safe, but that is not
what ships were meant to do. Sail
out to sea and try new things."
Admiral Grace Hooper,
Female Computer Pioneer
PREP
PASSAGES
PREP Passages is published quarterly. We will share information
and celebrate successes with the other schools on the Darton
College PREP team. We
welcome the following middle schools:
Albany, Calhoun, Central, Crisp, Highland, Lee, MacIntyre
Park, Merry Acres, Randolph-Clay, and our newest team member Clay
Co. Elementary. We
also welcome the following high schools: Albany, Calhoun, Crisp,
Dougherty, Monroe, Randolph-Clay, Thomas Co. and Westover.
DARTON
COLLEGE PREPARES FOR SUMMER
ACADEMIC PREP CAMP
One hundred of our selected PREP students will enjoy a fun-filled week
of activities at
Darton College for the PREP Summer Camp Academic Program.
This year the camp will begin June 14-18 and continue June
28-July 2.
The
activities involve academic enrichment, character education,
community service, career and post- secondary educational
exploration, and recreation.
We
will use individuals and groups throughout the community to
promote social acceptance, higher self-esteem, and better
character components.
Mentors
from the community will visit students frequently throughout the
camp.
Community
Mentors will include such contacts as:
1. A chemist from Merck Chemical
Co. who will share his educational preparation to become a
Project Scientist.
2. Kristin Caso, Educational Curator for the Albany
Museum of Art, who will provide daily art enrichment activities.
3. A representative from Prison Institutional Counseling
Services who will provide information on how not to become a
"teen prison statistic" and the importance of staying in
school.
4. Representatives at technical institutes who will discuss
various post-secondary educational and career opportunities.
SUMMER
CAMP DATES:
Week
One: June 14-June 18
Week Two: June
28-July 2
PARENTS
HAVE A PLACE IN PREP
The state mandated goal of PREP is to motivate middle school students to
begin thinking about post- secondary options. This includes completing the new course requirements for
entry into Georgia's
colleges, universities, and technical schools.
We encourage you as parents to participate in parental
workshops and meetings that we will schedule throughout 1999.
We invite you to visit the campus of Darton College and see
first hand the wonderful opportunities available for your child
after high school graduation. Your
role is vital to your child as he or she explores career options.
We at Darton look forward to meeting you and your child.
STUDENTS
LEARN ABOUT ASIAN CULTURES
Foreign Language instructor, Nattsu Kitamuru, shares knowledge of
people, culture and the Arts of Asian Countries at Highland and
Albany Middle Schools. In
February and March,
students learned to bow properly and say good morning and good
afternoon in Japanese. Ms. Kitamuru says that the Japanese now have
a new word to use in their vocabulary,
Makudonarudo (McDonalds)!
According to Ms. Kitamuru,
Japanese people are known for technology; however, they love wooden
toys. These middle
school students learned Japanese words for toys and dolls and were
allowed to touch and play with the toys. Origami (Japanese paper
art) excited the students.
When the presentation was finished, the students questioned
Kitamuru about Asian customs.
SPECIAL
NOTE:
Congratulations!
During the month of March, Dr. Sireno and Dr. Kirkland were
presented the Foreign
Language Association of Georgia's Administrator of the Year Award.
President Sireno along with Dr. Joseph Kirkland and senior
administrators from Middle Georgia College, South Georgia College
and Waycross College were given this award because of their
exceptional support for Foreign Language Instruction and
International Programs.
GOOD
NEWS! WE HAVE FORMED A
HIGH SCHOOL PREP PARENTS CLUB!
MORE ABOUT IT IN OUR NEXT ISSUE.
DID
YOU KNOW?
According to the U.S. Department of Education, "the
three factors over which parents exercise authority--student
absenteeism, variety of reading materials in the home, and excessive
television watching--explained nearly 90 percent of the differences
in eighth grade mathematics test scores in 37 states and the
District of Columbia Teachers ranked strengthening parents." roles
in their children's learning the issue that they should address
most in formulating education policy over the next few years.
WHAT EVERY YOUNG WOMAN
SHOULD KNOW
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Eighty
percent of ten- year- old American young women Diet.
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More
than five million Americans suffer from eating disorders.
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The
number one magic wish for young women from ages 11-17 is to be
thinner.
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Millions
of young women, influenced by a culture that equates success and
happiness with thinness, began dieting to be accepted.
DARTON
COLLEGE PREP TUTOR/MENTORS
Congratulations to the tutor/mentors for reports
of a wonderful job they're doing in the various schools they work
in. Thank you to the following tutor/ mentors:
Susan
Domine
Jeanita Fulmore
Amit Gadhia
Rodney Jackson
Shampree Lynch
Brenda Martinez
Lauren Mock
Karreecha Newby
Jorge Valazquez
Shannon Zimmerman
We
would like to congratulate Rodney Jackson who is leaving for Atlanta
on April 15th to participate in the Regional Championship
Competition for Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization on
behalf of Darton College.
COMMUNITY
SERVICE ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
The tutor/mentors are collecting fun reading books for all age groups
to be given to the homeless children in the Darton College
service area.
Remember:
Service is the price we pay for the space we occupy.
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PREP
TO OFFER MEDIA LITERACY COURSE
What is media literacy?
Just
what it sounds like--the ability to interpret and create
personal meaning from the hundreds, even thousands of verbal and
visual symbols we take in every day through television, radio,
computers, newspapers, and magazines, and of course,
advertising. It is the ability to choose and select, the ability to
challenge and question, the ability to be conscious about
what=s
going on around you and not be passive, and therefore,
vulnerable.
Other
definitions point out that media literacy is not so much a
finite body of knowledge but rather a skill, a process, a way
of thinking that, like reading comprehension, is always
evolving.
Media
Literacy will now be incorporated into the PREP Tutorial
Programs. We will
also offer it during the Summer Camp Program.
We expect that parents, teachers and administrators will
appreciate this service.
According
to "Just
Think,"
a new guide to media literacy, we are at a point where we really
need to encourage students, parents, and teachers to
become critical
viewers.
It
is really important that your students understand that you watch
media, you play media, you understand what entertainment is, and
that you also understand educational values.
It is your responsibility to be a source of wisdom about
the media, instead of a judge of what is right and wrong about
it. One
way to make sure that students see you in this light is
to let them know that you too engage in the media and that you
too, in your everyday
life, are making decisions about it,@
said Elana Rosen, Executive Director, "Just Think."
Today's
media forces pull hard on youth people.
As adults, we have two choices: to set boundaries on what
our kids are exposed to or to provide them with strategies to
think for themselves. The
former deepens the proverbial generational wedge; the latter is
the nucleus for lifelong learning.
"Just
Think's"
educator- and parent-directed programs teach adults about the
key roles they can play in young people's interaction with
media, and provide adults with methods to facilitate the
critical-thinking process about the media in their minds and the
minds of youth alike.
DOUGHERTY
COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM YOUTH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Darton College PREP is hosting the Dougherty County School System Youth
Orchestra. There
are 50 members of the orchestra from the middle and high school
grades. The Orchestra receives instruction from Ms. Vickie McKinney,
Mr. Rolando Martinez, Mrs. Patricia Welch, and Mr. Sergio
Rodriquez, who is the Founder and Conductor of this musical
organization. The Orchestra is supported by the Administration of the
Dougherty County School System and its Booster Committee,
volunteer teachers, parents of the Orchestra members, and
citizens of the Albany Community.
As Mr. Rodriquez says, "Darton
College brings it all together."
The
GOAL of this wonderful organization, through its music program,
is to help young musicians develop their potential through a
harmonious and healthy environment.
They believe that symphonic music enriches lives, awakens
emotions, and uplifts the spirit.
Furthermore, music students are less likely to drop out
of school, thus achieving academic goals which impact on the
entire community.
The
Dougherty County School Symphony will present its Spring Gala
Concert on Tuesday, May 25th, at 7:00 p.m., at the Darton
College Auditorium (J-171). A Reception follows
immediately after the concert in the Lobby.
We would love for you to help us formally welcome this
group to Darton College Campus.
TEACHER
CORNER
We invite PREP teachers to share
their creative side. Submit
to PREP Passages any ideas and concerns that may be of value to
us and other teachers in the PREP program.
1998
- 99 PREP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Inclusion of eight counties and seventeen schools in the Darton College
service area.
The
establishment of a tutor/mentor training program consisting of
high school, college and community volunteers.
The
establishment of a Kaplan SAT/ACT Deluxe Diagnostic Training
Program in all middle schools service area sites.
High school students are also invited to use the program on
Darton College campus in the electronic classroom F-201 on
selected Saturdays.
The
establishment of closer communication and contact between the PREP
Program, Darton college, parents, and service areas.
The
establishment of a High School Prep Parent Club.
The
incorporation of greater community service and service learning
activities in the PREP Program.
DARTON
COLLEGE
Enrollment: About
2,600
Degrees
Awarded:
Associate of Science
Associate of Arts
Associate of Applied Science
Certificate
Programs: Six career
areas plus Cooperative
Programs with Technical Institutes
Accreditation:
Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools
Average
Tuition, Fee and Books Per Year: In-State-
$1600
Student
to Teacher Ratio: 25:1
Services:
Career
Counseling
Customized Classes
Developmental Programs
Financial Aid
First-Rate Library
Fitness Center
Minority Advisement Program
Off-Campus Classes
Student Activities
Student Success Program
Weekend Classes
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