A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gullotta, Thomas P. (Editor), Bloom, Martin (Editor), Gullotta, Christianne F. (Editor), Messina, Jennifer C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives, 10
• Subjects: Psychology.; Medicine.; Education.; Social work.; Sociology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Education, general.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Sociology, general.

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...

Table of 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.