Kepp it up- the CTM Academy

https://www.ctm-academy.org/

One often reflects at the end of January about what has happened and what resolutions to make. Without a doubt, our school had many changes and overcame many challenges.

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!” 

EDU Reading Corner

Searching for the first book ever to have been published can be a bit of a challenge, as some believe it was the The Epic of Gilgamesh, mythologized account of an historical figure, Gilgamesh. Others will focus on the invention of the printing press by Johannes Guttenberg in 1440, as the real “book” printing era.

Over the centuries, we have gone from clay, to papyrus, to wax table, hand written parchments, printed paper and the most current invention of an e-book. It is maybe, with the invention of an e-book in the 21 century, that one can see a massive decline in reading or interest in books themselves. Book shops are closing and are being replaced by Apple Stores, and libraries are shrinking to make room for computer labs.

With all the advantages of modern technology and most up-to-date aps and state of the art technology, there is in me the nostalgic yearning for an old-fashioned book. You know, the one you can hold, flip pages with one hand and hold a hot cocoa with the other, all while wrapped in a cozy blanket while sitting on the sofa. With this in mind, I have opened the EDU Reading Corner, where students themselves will post reviews, stories, vocabulary lists and even recommendations etc. based on the books they have read either as part of school’s curriculum or as part of their own free time entertainment- yes, book can be entertaining.  

So, check in with us, once in a while,  to see what the kids are reading these year – you just might be surprised.

http://edureadingcorner.blogspot.cz/