Program Details
PROGRAM DETAILS
What JROTC Accomplishes
- Develop life skills & personal responsibility
- Prepare students beyond high school
- Increase low academic performance & test scores
- Promote wellness and fitness
- Improve critical thinking skills
- Stop substance abuse & Preventing violence
- Effectively teach students of all abilities
- Provide quality research-based curriculum
- Provide quality activities
DEVELOP LIFE SKILLS & PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Identify behaviors
- Behavior assessment
- Determine personal skill levels
- Determine learning styles
- Develop behavioral skills
- Service learning
- Financial Planning
- Affirmations
- Student-centered classes
- Program structure (Leadership)
- Activities & competitions
- Interactive CDs & games
- Measure the results
- Actions
- Grades
- Relationships
- Team participation
- Responsible financial management
- High standardized test scores
- Career oriented critical thinkers
PREPARE STUDENTS BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL
- Financing College DVD
- Lessons on careers
- Career portfolios
INCREASE LOW ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE & TEST SCORES
- Tools to meet 21st century learning
- www.March2success.com
- Test taking skills
- Communication skills
- Technology in the classroom
- Interactive skill-building games
PROMOTE WELLNESS AND FITNESS
- President's Fitness Challenge
- Nutrition
- First Aid
- Drill
- Life management skills
IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
- Thinking Maps
- Leadership positions
- Problem-solving exercises
- Student-centered lesson plans
STOP SUBSTANCE ABUSE & PREVENTING VIOLENCE
- Interactive CD/DVDs - Making Better Choices
- Interactive Nights Out (Substance Abuse)
- Just 2 Day (Violence Prevention)
- Leadership (Problem-solving)
- Conflict resolution
- Success profiler
- Drug and Alcohol abuse lessons
- Service Learning
EFFECTIVELY TEACH STUDENTS OF ALL ABILITIES
- Differential Instruction & Scaffolding
- Learning styles inventory
- Multiple Intelligences
- Professional development
- Rubrics to evaluate
PROVIDE QUALITY RESEARCH-BASED CURRICULUM
- Foundations for Success in Wellness, Fitness & First Aid
- Citizenship, Communication, Awareness
- Leadership, Management, Character
- Career Opportunities, Life Skills
- Global & Environmental Awareness
- Geography & Map Skills
- Citizenship in American History & Government
- Cadet Safety and Civilian Marksmanship Program (Optional)
PROVIDE QUALITY ACTIVITIES
- Motivate students to learn curriculum content, scholastics, technology, and leadership concepts in depth
- Are exciting and attractive to young people
- Use high quality standardized test questions that require critical thinking or performance based criteria
- Employ qualifying procedures that appeal to teens ( gaming, interaction, performing)
- Provide opportunities for Cadets to demonstrate what they have learned
- Are varied so that all Cadets can excel according to their talents
- After school programs provide Cadets with dynamic, interesting activities and healthy alternatives
JROTC SNAPSHOT
- Tools are available in the JROTC program structure, curriculum, and activities to overcome common obstacles in education
- Students enrolled in JROTC have the benefit of these interventions as well as the structure and discipline afforded by the program
- JROTC is fun while it provides opportunities that cannot be found in any other program
- JROTC brings quantified and leveraged funding and support to school districts
- Instructors are experienced and qualified to teach JROTC and embedded subjects