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Title A blueprint for promoting academic and social competence in after-school programs / Thomas P. Gullotta [and others], editors ; Jessica M. Ramos, research assistant.

Imprint New York : Springer, ©2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 234 pages) : illustrations
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Series Issues in children's and families' lives, 1572-1981
Issues in children's and families' lives (Springer (Firm))
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Social Competency -- How Development Affects Learning: Lessons Learned from Developmental, Cognitive, and Natural Science -- After-School Programs -- Promoting Social and Emotional Development in Childhood and Early Adolescence -- Mentoring and Its Role in Promoting Academic and Social Competency -- Service-Learning: Learning by Doing for Others -- A Blueprint for Promoting Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: The Salmon Program.
Summary School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children's academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision - immediately after school - is also the time that they are at the highest risk to act as perpetrators or become victims of antisocial behavior. Throughout A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs, which focuses on children in grades 1 through 6, noted experts identify the best practices of effective programs and pinpoint methods for enhancing sc.
Language English.
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Subject After-school programs.
Non-formal education.
School-age child care -- Activity programs.
Social adjustment.
EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
Social adjustment.
School-age child care -- Activity programs.
After-school programs.
Non-formal education.
Added Author Gullotta, Thomas P., 1948-
Other Form: Print version: Blueprint for promoting academic and social competence in after-school programs. New York : Springer, ©2009 9780387799193 (DLC) 2008937481 (OCoLC)231884225
ISBN 9780387799209
0387799206
1282924087
9781282924086
9786612924088
661292408X
9780387799193 (hbk.)
0387799192 (hbk.)
Standard No. 10.1007/978-0-387-79920-9