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Virtual Learning Solutions
This school year has been impacted by an unprecedented shortage of teachers, and district administrators are struggling to provide an uninterrupted learning environment for their students. Pearson can help by delivering a virtual or blended program through our all-in-one learning management system, using our certified instructors to address teacher shortages.
Pearson provides online learning solutions during the school year and for summer school, including K-12 courses with state-certified* teachers, live tutoring, and an embedded, live virtual classroom. Our highly qualified, content-certified teachers offer opportunities for synchronous engagement for hundreds of K-12 state-aligned courses, including core, electives, GT, world languages, CTE, honors, and AP®.
Plus:
- All teachers host drop-in office hours for students at least three hours a week
- Students may schedule a 1:1 appointment with a teacher for individual instruction
- Teachers connect with students to ensure they are progressing through the course
- Teachers grade assignments/portfolios and assign a final grade
Pearson can ensure your students don’t lose valuable learning opportunities because of a shortage of teachers.
*Pearson offers state-certified teachers in the following states: Alabama (AL), Arkansas (AR), California (CA), Colorado (CO), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Indiana (IN), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), Mississippi (MS), Ohio (OH), Oklahoma (OK), Oregon (OR), Pennsylvania (PA), South Carolina (SC), Tennessee (TN), Texas (TX), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), and Wisconsin (WI).
Is your district struggling to meet the needs of special populations? We can help. At Pearson Virtual Schools, we know that students with unique learning requirements can thrive in a virtual environment. Pearson has decades of demonstrated success in supporting the individualized needs of special populations in education, including those with IEPs and 504 plans – as well as gifted students.
Pearson provides students with Individualized Education Plans, a personalized academic experience tailored to their individual learning styles. Here’s how Pearson’s virtual education model enables special populations students to achieve success:
- Learning is a personalized experience, with the ability to provide a customized curriculum designed to meet each student’s individual needs.
- Highly qualified teachers prioritize communication and offer phone calls, WebMails, and one-on-one drop-in sessions as needed.
- A virtual environment removes the anxieties and distractions of a typical classroom so students can focus on learning.
- While parental involvement may be limited in-classroom, parents of students with special needs can be hands-on with their child’s education in a virtual setting.
- Pearson provides gifted students with a robust honors and AP course catalog and self-paced learning, which are often limited in a brick-and-mortar school.
- Pearson’s experienced special populations team partners with districts for frequent communication and collaboration to ensure each special populations student thrives.
Summer school programs can be so much more than high school credit recovery. When you partner with Pearson, your district can offer an innovative summer school option that allows your students to stay academically engaged while still enjoying the freedom of summer. Pearson Virtual Schools enables districts to provide an engaging, flexible, and affordable summer school program to meet the needs of K-12 students. With rolling start and end dates, Pearson's online summer school courses can accommodate your district's summer schedule.
Online Summer School Students Can Explore New Interests and Build New Skills
With more than 100 different online courses to choose from, a Pearson summer school solution can fit every student's needs. Whether you have high school seniors needing math credits for graduation or parents seeking a summer enrichment activity for their kindergartner, our summer school programs can help.
- Original credit courses help students satisfy graduation requirements, explore their interests, or accelerate their academic progress.
- High school credit recovery courses are standards-based courses designed to support students in the mastery of essential objectives and the recovery of required credits. A pre-test allows for the development of a personalized prescriptive pathway down to the objective level, prescribing what the student has not mastered.
- High school honors and Advanced Placement® courses in Grades 9–12 provide students with rigorous assignments for enrichment, honors, and AP credits.
- Elementary and middle school courses offer younger students the opportunity to explore career interests, learn English or math core concepts, or study a new language.
- Expand your elementary and middle school students’ skills through a Summer Smarts program.
- Pearson offers NCAA-approved courses, allowing college-bound student-athletes to build a foundation of high school courses to prepare them for the academic expectations in college.
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