One of the more dominant questions which pop to our academic minds are: How to motivate talented hardworking young minds to excellence in education; how to help prepare students for admission to university studies at home and abroad; and how to utilize the best online practices for the development of in-class education programs.
There is one program in the Czech Republic which for years has been targeting these questions and has been providing services to all gifted and motivated young minds. The CTM academy has over 1,000 students participated in CTY online programs and summer programs, taking demanding CTY Online courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, informatics, effective writing and other subjects, all taught in English. Additionally, the academy has over 40 students who have received full scholarships to the CTY Summer Program through a competition in which 150 students annually take part. Most students choose programs at Princeton, Berkeley, john Hopkins and other top universities, while a few students went to CTY Ireland and CTY Hong Kong.
What is more fascinating, that since 2011, over 60 schools have participated in CTY Online Program and a few have even integrated CTY online courses as their electives and our is school is the only one which has incorporated a Creative writing and a World Around Us science class into our school’s curriculum.
This means that all our students from 6th -9th class as well as the 1st two years in gymnasium have a required on line program which is supported by 2 hours of the subject taught by native speakers.
Is it tough? Yes. Is it challenging? Yes. Is it intellectual? Yes.
We are half way through the year, and half way through the program, and students knowledge of the English language as well as the scientific world is soaring up. And all we can say is “Keep it up!”
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