The mission of the Taft School's Moorhead Academic Center is to improve learning, provide support to teachers, students and parents and to make available resources on the latest in scientific research on learning and the brain.
Services include:
Students:
- Screening and evaluations to understand strengths and weaknesses of the individual's learning profile.
- Facilitating recommendations and accommodations for documented learning differences.
- Providing strategies for learning/understanding.
- Providing instruction in strategic reading techniques.
- Providing methods to study and learn: math, science and foreign language.
- Writing process center for assistance in long-term research papers.
- Time management and organizational skills.
- Self-advocacy and self-determination techniques.
- Peer tutoring program.
Teachers:
- Consultations on teaching methodology.
- Individualized work with academic departments.
- Teaching material development.
- Collaboration with deans and school counselors on support to students.
- Reference materials on learning issues and the latest in research in neuroscience.
Parents:
- Resource for information on learning issues.
- Explanation of findings of psycho-educational evaluations.
The Moorhead Academic Center is staffed by four faculty members:
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