Is an Online Summer School Program in Your District's Future?

Ready or not, summer school is coming. An online program may be an easier way to teach and implement a stress free summer school program that will delight teachers and students alike.

Seeking a progressive way for students to catch up, keep up, or move ahead during the summer means looking differently at how summer courses are taught. Why? Summer school is a tough sell—students are rarely keen on the idea of spending their summer in school. And because many students find school boring or simply too difficult at times, the teachers need new and different ways to engage students more fully with their studies, a feat that is especially challenging in a compressed summer school schedule. It is vital for educators to try a different approach to meeting summer school challenges.

Break Away From the Routine
For a different approach to teaching and learning, consider online learning. Online programs provide an interactive, rigorous instructional resource, while students are challenged in a format that connects to their 21st century digital expectations—using a medium for teaching learning is interactive, dynamic, challenging, and where they can take control of their own learning, any time and in any location. Offering educational content in a rich-media format that children like to use is half of the battle to keeping them motivated and engaged in learning.

An online teaching and learning approach can also be a great remedy to get students out of a rut if their learning style and a particular teaching style haven't worked for them in the classroom. And an online approach can be especially helpful for children needing remediation. Students using online content can control the pace to learn, which can result in very powerful results. By offering an online alternative to a traditional summer school environment, teachers can implement teaching methods that are a departure from a tradition classroom environment.

Ready or not, summer school is coming. An online program may be an easier way to implement and teach it.

Make sure your summer school program is time—and money—well spent.

A stress-free summer school program that will delight both teachers and students is within reach.

PLATO Learning offers online PLATO® Courses for middle and high school students in the four core subject areas of English, math, science, and social studies. Rigorous and built upon industry leading standards from the Fordham Foundation A rated states, at the heart of our courses is dynamic, interactive digital content to engage today's digital natives. No page after page of boring text. PLATO Courses can be used by at-risk students to recover course credit, or on-grade and accelerated students to accelerate the rate in which they earn course credit. Students take control of the pace of their learning and love the flexibility of working any time, any place they have access to an Internet connection.

To tailor our courses for summer school, curriculum specialists determined the recommended key objectives to be covered in a compressed summer school program. And, PLATO Courses can be adjusted to meet a district or school's unique summer needs—shorten the course or lengthen it as needed. The PLATO summer school program requires almost no prep time or ramp-up time. Easy to implement and effective, PLATO Courses for summer school promise a fun, engaging, and dynamic learning environment where students can achieve the success that eluded them in the traditional classroom.

PLATO Courses offer:

• A rigorous summer school curriculum designed specifically for a compressed learning schedule.
• 40 courses in the core middle-and high-school subjects.
• Award-winning digital content to capture and hold students' attention.
• Streamlined teacher support materials and professional development for quick and easy implementation.

To learn how PLATO Learning's dynamic instructional content engages students and will transform summertime teaching and learning in your district.
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