MTEG EDUCATION PROGRAMS
ACe curriculum
MTEG’s educational program employs the National Junior Tennis and Learning network’s Academic Creative Engagement (A.C.E.) curriculum. The ACE curriculum is designed to encourage academic achievement, health/wellness, and social/emotional skills by guiding youth through educational processes that include decision-making, problem solving, and working together toward common goals. On average 100 youth participate in our educational program three times a week, for an hour after tennis practice.
Mentoring/character development
MTEG provides supportive, confidential, empowering services to help all students thrive. We also provide behavior modification, and intervention plans for creating knowledge base of the connection between thoughts choices and habits. One thing we teach is that students have power and not to become victims. We instruct students on effective methods for dealing with bullying and conflict resolution. MTEG works with parents and students to create academic plans in cases where the students are falling behind scholastically.
Health & wellness
Most youth enter the MTEG program with poor eating habits. A lot of youth skip breakfast and eat unhealthy snacks. MTEG provides nutrition plans and works with the parents on creating shopping lists for food. We also instruct students on proper hydration. We include techniques for stress reduction, relaxation and sleep schedule management.
Junior high, high school & college placement/mentoring
MTEG assist’s youth with the admission and application process for competitive private schools and have placed 50 kids in high achieving private schools. We work with students to identify the right cultural, academic and athletic fit for private high schools and post-secondary athletic and academic opportunities. We put our youth in environments where they can meet and interact with college coaches such as combines where they showcase their talents in front of coaches and representatives from colleges and universities. Student must prepare for these opportunities by researching the colleges and universities at the combines. We also advise students on NCAA regulations on interactions with schools and their representatives. MTEG also hosts the Winter Invitational, which serves as a showcase for their talents.
Report card collection & monitoring
MTEG works to create well-rounded scholar athletes. To help ensure and promote academic excellence MTEG collects and reviews report cards for members of MTEG’s Excellence Team, (Excellence Team participants are National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) youth chosen based on their elite level of tennis ability, educational outcomes and commitment to the pathway to become student-athletes at the collegiate and professional levels). MTEG has 40 youth who are Excellence Team members. The cumulative grade point average for Excellence members is 3.7
Essay contests
The annual NJTL Essay Contest is a widely acclaimed educational tool. MTEG participants are asked to write essays answering a thought-provoking question requiring research and analysis. MTEG youth have won two national contest winners and 30 mid-Atlantic sectional winners.
gpa’S
A 3.0 GPA is required for any participant on an MTEG team.
100% graduation and college placement rate. All 50 students who have participated as high school seniors have graduated and gone on to college.
Travel enrichment
MTEG students are offerned the opportunity to travel to tennis tournaments where they practice learning to be professional, creating and managing a schedule, creating and managing a budget while traveling across the country.
Deloitte & Touché partner with MTEG to offer education services & personal/career programs for leadership. As one of the world’s largest professional services organizations, Deloitte works with students to help maximize their potential though college and career planning using tools like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Winward Academy
Winward Academy is a research-based, student-centered learning platform for the ACT, SAT, math class and college applications. Winward Academy applies a scientific approach to customize learning for each student, enabling growth for students of all levels and learning styles. The USTA Foundation has launched a pilot program partnership with Winward Academy which will allow MTEG students online access to curriculum that provides support for students in the above-mentioned areas.
Tutoring
MTEG offers our scholar athletes tutors to instruct in a private instruction capacity.
