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ESL Programs at Boarding Schools
posted by Allison "AJ" Miller on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 @ 02:11 PM
tags: boarding schools, All Boys Boarding, Co-Ed Schools, Education, Schools with ESL, All Girls Boarding, Junior Boarding


The fast academic pace at most boarding schools necessitates a strong command of the English language prior to enrolling. In order to keep up with coursework and perform at your best, you should be able to read, write and speak English with near fluency. If you aren’t almost fluent, you will likely struggle.
 
That doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t attend U.S. or Canadian boarding schools, however. It simply means you should look for boarding schools that offer English as a Second Language (ESL) programs for students whose native language is not English.
 
ESL programs help students to quickly get up to speed on the language. Depending on their mastery of the language, students are generally placed into a beginner, intermediate or advanced ESL class. From there, students are integrated with American students into classes where English is the only language spoken.

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Advantages of College Prep Schools
posted by Allison "AJ" Miller on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 @ 08:00 AM
tags: All Boys Boarding, Co-Ed Schools, College Prep Schools, All Girls Boarding

Students interested in attending high school away from home have several types of boarding schools to choose from. Military boarding schools can help ready students for a military career, junior boarding schools are for elementary and middle school students, therapeutic boarding schools provide a mix of therapy and medical support with academic coursework, while college prep schools are focused solely on training highly intelligent students for admission to and success in college.
 
Sure, some high schools can achieve the same result, but there are numerous advantages that college prep boarding schools provide that others schools generally do not.

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What is a Typical Boarding School Student Like?
posted by Allison "AJ" Miller on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 @ 10:11 AM
tags: All Boys Boarding, Co-Ed Schools, All Girls Boarding

Boarding School StudentsBoarding school students are, in many ways, just like their high school counterparts at your local school. Boarding school students spend most of their day at school, followed by sports or gym, and extracurricular activities later in the day. They spend most of their evening hours engaged in homework, but have more free time on the weekends, when there are additional activities available to them, including off-campus excursions and events.
 
Some ways that students at boarding schools are frequently, but not always, different from their day student counterparts is that they spend more time studying and less time watching TV and playing video games. They simply don’t have time. And much of their non-school hours are engaged in activities, rather than just relaxing.
 
Many boarding school students develop talents and skills that they hone and apply at school, such as by joining a sports team or concentrating on preparing a portfolio of photography work. Students can work independently on their craft while still overseen and guided by their instructors, who often live on campus, too.

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Five Benefits of All-Girls Boarding Schools
posted by Allison "AJ" Miller on Mon, Mar 29, 2010 @ 07:01 AM
tags: College Prep Schools, All Girls Boarding, Junior Boarding

Research in the U.S. and overseas repeatedly confirms that single-sex education is good for both girls and boys in schools. Separating girls from boys in a 1995 school learning experiment in Virginia, the girls showed almost immediate gains in education involvement and class participation. A 2001 British study had similar results, concluding that girls perform better in an all-girls boarding school environment than in a co-ed one.

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Is a Girls’ Boarding School Right for your Daughter?
posted by Allison "AJ" Miller on Wed, Feb 03, 2010 @ 01:15 PM
tags: All Girls Boarding

All girls’ boarding schools offer the same type of learning, cultural activities, sports programs and social community as co-ed boarding schools, except that girls are entirely the focus on single-sex campuses. And that’s good for the girls. Without boys nearby to distract them, girls are willing and able to concentrate almost exclusively on their studies. Girls in all girls boarding schools recognize all that they are capable of, and that new sense of self-esteem and ambition stays with them long after graduation.

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