Home Contents Index E-Mail Search Apply Junior Achievement of Delaware Valley Junior Achievement of Delaware Valley is pleased to partner with Drexel University. This partnership ensures that students combine academic study with real-life experience in an exciting service learning activity in Philadelphia's Elementary Schools. Junior Achievement is the world's largest and fastest growing non-profit volunteer educational organization. We reach more than three million elementary, middle and high school students in the Untied States and in over one hundred countries every year. Since 1919, Junior Achievement has grown to meet the requirements of a complex, changing world by providing programs that prepare young people to face the challenges of succeeding in the workforce, and in realizing their full potential.
Students develop the skills necessary to work in small and large group situations.
Most importantly, they acquire an appreciation of the importance of staying in school. All Junior Achievement programs are taught by individuals who work with classroom teachers to provide the programs on a weekly basis to students. The delivery of the JA curriculum sequentially helps students broaden their horizons so that they understand themselves, their families, their communities, their cities, their nation and their world. By facilitating the simple activities provided, you demonstrate the close relationship between school and life outside the classroom. As part of this program, you will receive JA training, classroom materials, including detailed lessons plans, and a placement in a Philadelphia elementary school.