Personalized Learning
The unifying element of Achieve Online's program is to strive towards personalizing each student's program. Upon enrollment, students take a learning styles inventory. The results of this inventory, combined with other information such as a student's personal interests and the family's needs, are taken into consideration when designing a student's program.
Educational Facilitator
Educational Facilitators are certified teachers who take care of the "big picture" for each student by serving as a guide, advocate, and primary point of contact. Students can choose to keep the same educational facilitator year after year. A student's educational facilitator will oversee the student's progress, make sure certain requirements are met, and help tailor the program to meet the student's learning styles, personal interests, and goals.
Blended Program
Students are provided with different curriculum and instruction options. Younger students will spend more time engaged in offline project-based learning, and gradually increasing the amount of online time as they get older. However, even high school students are required to spend a portion of their class time engaged in project-based offline learning options.
Customized Pacing
Students not only learn at different paces at different times, they also learn at different paces for different subject areas.
Have a student who is at one grade level in math yet another in reading? At Achieve Online, students are encouraged to move forward, yet at a pace and level matched to their current abilities. This means that a student might be catching up in one subject while zooming way ahead in another!
Students also have flexibility in how many classes they are focusing on at a time. Students need to make overall progress in their program, but this progress can be made in different ways. Students are encouraged to engage in PE on a continuous basis, and reading should be regularly assigned even if it is across the curriculum. However, they might not focus on social studies, for example, every learning period. When they do focus on social studies, they are allowed to dive into the subject matter for extended periods of time, resulting in depth as well as breadth.
Social Activities
Field trips, organized social events, clubs, and the weekly live online eClass provide students with opportunities to interact with other students.
