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What is Extralearning Online?
Extralearning Online is a comprehensive, self-paced, academic enrichment or enhancement program, which is flexible and can therefore be used in many different ways, depending upon the individual student’s need.
How does Extralearning Online enhance academic performance?
It is comprehensive – Extralearning Online has two components. The first is the academic component, which provides academic courses from 1st through 12th grade in Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies. The second component is functional, and provides courses in employment, consumer, life and social skills.
It is Self Paced – It allows the student to move as fast or as slow as needed in order to learn effectively. It can be used to assess a student’s abilities and needs, and then to create an Individual Education Plan (IEP) unique to that student.
It is a Mastery Learning Program – In order to progress, students must be able to demonstrate mastery of the subject matter. This level of mastery can be determined by the organization making use of the program.
It is Flexible – The Extralearning Online
program can be used in a variety of ways. It has been used to deliver an entire
course during the regular school day, in after-school programs, during in the
summer, and to facilitate and reinforce direct teacher instruction. It is also
an ideal tool to assist teachers in meeting the needs of advanced and
accelerated students. Extralearning can assist teachers in providing additional
instruction to students who are falling behind, and therefore make sure that “no
students are ‘truly’ left behind”.
Currently, across the United States, the Extralearning program is being used:
To assist Classroom Instruction
As Part of Classroom Instruction
In Remediation Labs
In Summer School Programs
In After School Programs
To create a School within School
To create Alternative Schools
In Early Childhood Development programs
In Adult Education and GED preparation programs
How does Extralearning Online work?
Extralearning Online includes activities that address a
variety of different learning styles. Not only does the program make use of the
Extralearning Online library of over 1700 books, it allows students to learn
through the use of interactive INTERNET sites, and a multitude of streaming
videos. This insures that students who are “hands on” learners or who need to
visualize information before they grasp a concept will have their individualized
learning styles addressed.
Students use these tools to progress at their own speed. Whenever they are in
need of assistance, they may contact Tutor.com, which provides live, on-line
subject area assistance for the students as part of the Extralearning program.
What does research show about Extralearning Online?
The best was to do this is to just look at the Results.
David L. Hartenbach High School (Aurora, Colorado)
An entire High School was created around the Extralearning
program to serve between 130 – 150 students. The Extralearning program allows
the students to go as fast or as slow as they need in order to succeed. As a
result of this program, Hartenbach High School became the first school in the
Aurora Public Schools district to demonstrate Adequate Yearly Progress (as
determined by the Colorado Department of Education) in the 2002-03 school year.
Hartenbach High School has also been evaluated by the Colorado Department of
Education, in the category of Average, based upon the Colorado Student
Achievement Program (CSAP) test scores. That is equal to the highest rating any
high school in the district received for the 2003-04 school year. All of the
students had dropped out of other high schools.
Based upon the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE), the students at Hartenbach
High School who demonstrated progress averaged the following gains for
the 2002-03 school year:
3.22 Grade levels in Reading
2.22 Grade levels in Writing
3.01 Grade levels in Math
This in a student body where 23.3% of the students were reading below a 7th grade level, 32.6% were writing below a 7th grade level, and 37.2% of the students were below the 7th grade level in Math.
Another good way is to simply ask the students.
This article from the Rocky Mountain News discusses the programs use at David L. Hartenbach High School. Several students were interviewed along with staff of the school.
WANT TO LEARN MORE?
This is a synopsis of the entire RFT Extralearning program in a tri fold brochure format.
Reach for Tomorrow
The Extralearning Online Program is a wonderful way for students to learn. It can be used to assist students who are falling behind, or to provide a more rapid program for advanced students who want to move at a faster pace. It truly is a program which helps students successfully Reach for Tomorrow!