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| A Comprehensive Curriculum |
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In order to ensure that course content is available to learners for all subject-based content required for promotion and graduation from high school, ALA provides an online curriculum, which provides standards-based courses and units in mathematics, science, English, social studies, world languages, and electives from grades six through twelve.
This approach may be used to address critical education challenges and raise achievement for all students, whether they are struggling or capable of accelerating their learning. All digital curriculum coursework is correlated to the Pennsylvania State Academic Standards.
Courses are organized into semesters, units, lessons, and activities. A typical semester includes 5-6 units, each with 5-6 lessons. A typical lesson comprises a number of activities, including studies, practices, readings, journals, labs, discussions, projects, web explorations, reviews, and both computer- and teacher-scored assessments, including unit diagnostics.
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| Students will be able to select the lessons and units that support learning the standards-based content they need to complete their projects. The digital curriculum takes advantage of the power of technology to create active learning experiences that keep students engaged as they read, watch, listen, inquire, write, discuss, explore and manipulate objects and data. |
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| Multimedia Brings Lessons to Life |
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The digital curriculum takes advantage of the power of technology to create active learning experiences that keep students engaged as they read, watch, listen, inquire, write, discuss, explore and manipulate objects and data. Multimedia tutorials provide students with opportunities to explore and discover new concepts.
The materials are self-paced and integrate
- images
- audio
- video clips
- animations
- charts and graphs
throughout to provide alternative representations and to address different learning styles.
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Assessment activities—including formative, summative, and diagnostic measures—are integrated throughout the digital curriculum:
- Each lesson begins with the learning objective for the lesson. Assessments address each learning objective and are specifically designed to test students at various levels.
- Formative and diagnostic assessments provide opportunities to gauge student progress on an ongoing basis.
- Summative assessments require students to demonstrate what they have learned at the end of each unit and at the end of each semester.
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