Sunday, July 13, 2008

homeschool highschool

I just heard that our educational curriculum partner and vendor is offering a high school curriculum. I wonder if we could use it as a basis for a homeschool high school curriculum?

There are many questions to work out. Does they want to work with us? Is it appropriate? Would their pricing work for our model and market? Is it automated? Do automated independent study courses work for high school? Will they continue with their current subcontract effort with e2020 and thinkwell or will they shift to inhouse development?

What I'd like to see is a good website community about homeschooling through high school.

There are some really good high school writing classes online available from Time4Writing.   For instance:

TheTime4Writing High School  Essay Writing course explores the essay writing process from the pre-writing stage to the revision stage. Students work weekly practicing and mastering each step of the writing process before moving on to the next step. This course prepares students for writing essays for school assignments. Students work with an online writing tutor who guides them through every step, providing online writing homework to ensure their mastery of this important writing form. 

They also have some slightly more remedial writing courses such as the Time4Writing high school writing course on paragraphs. This eight-week course focuses on the fundamental unit of essays and reports: the paragraph. Students will learn the parts of the paragraph (topic, supporting, and concluding sentences) and the types of paragraphs (narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive). Through guided online writing ideas, a tutor provides writing homework help that increases the students’ skill in using this foundational unit of composition. 

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