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 The
online curriculum has multiple advantages for the homeschool family.
Students from 3rd-8th grade use a computer with internet access to
complete school work.
SEA
Advantages:
Student
diagnostic testing for proper academic placement.
Academic projection for
graduation to clarify student requirements for motivation.
Covering
of accredited school enrollment, but work at home.
Provides
a high school transcript
from an accredited school.
College entrance school
number for testing and applications.
Annual
standardized achievement testing is included in tuition, which can be done at home ($50 value).
The online curriculum includes:
5 subjects from Math, Language Arts, History/Geography, Science, Bible, and Electives.
Computerized scoring.
Immediate answer reinforcement.
Academic advisor for placement analysis and record keeping.
Engaging multi-media content.
Enrichment web-sites and hands-on projects.
View grades online.
Our
online curriculum is an internet-based remote access program which
features 3-D animation and cutting edge
multimedia. Students finish lessons by completing various questions,
activities, and quizzes, with a computer over the internet.
Students are guided through the lessons at their own pace, giving them
the chance to master concepts before moving on to more challenging
lessons. There are approximately 130 lessons per subject. Five core
subjects — Bible, Language Arts, Math, History & Geography, and
Science — are available for grades 3-8. A number of electives are
also available.
The
online curriculum provides
an interactive
learning environment with 3-D animation, video clips, and other
fascinating multimedia. It provides automatic grading, record keeping,
and lesson planning with the click of a mouse, freeing parents more.
The
curriculum
is written on the principle of "mastery learning."
This means that students truly master the content and skills of one unit before progressing
to the next. Different students learn at different speeds, thus
mastery learning ensures success by allowing each student to spend as
much time as necessary in one subject area prior to moving
on.
 One
advantage of the online method versus the CD curriculum: With our
Online Academy, occasional subjective scoring is handled by our
teachers. With CD curriculum, the parent handles the subjective
scoring.
Low
Tuition:
Four
payment options to choose from (monthly, quarterly, semester, yearly). Tuition includes curriculum fees
for five core subjects, achievement test, and academic advisor support. Additional subjects
$150 each. SEA requires a minimum of a two semester (annual) commitment
to protect the school's reputation for academic progress.
Semester, quarterly, and monthly payment options are a provided
convenience for the parents' commitment of two semesters.
| 3rd-8th
Grade Tuition Fees: |
Monthly: $98 |
Quarterly: $241 |
Semester: $466 |
Full Year: $902 |
| High
school students are normally required to use our Online
Program with Teacher Support to ensure assistance
with upper concepts is provided. |
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Optional
Teacher Support:
This
option includes everything above. The Teacher On Call program uses our internet-based online program
plus
receives extra academic assistance from a teacher
at SEA. Parents can direct their student to
use a SEA teacher for concept help and questions
rather than requiring the parent to explain
difficult concepts. Students can access
the extra assistance via the
message center directly in the curriculum. Parents
do not need to do any subjective scoring! Teacher
On Call can free up time for parents. It includes
additional math curriculum if
needed.
The
"Teacher On Call" tuition includes curriculum, achievement test, academic advisor support, and
an on call teacher for each subject. The 3rd-8th program
includes five subjects. The high school program includes
six subjects. Additional subjects $225 each.
| 3rd-8th Grade Tuition Fees: |
Monthly: $160 |
Quarterly: $389 |
Semester:
$761 |
Full Year: $1495 |
| Our
high school program requires the use of the Teacher On Call
program, plus includes an extra subject. |
| 9th-11th
Grade Tuition Fees: |
Monthly: $198 |
Quarterly: $453 |
Semester: $895 |
Full Year: $1755 |
| 12th
Grade Tuition Fees: |
Monthly:
$199 |
Quarterly:
$478 |
Semester:
$945 |
Full Year:
$1855 |
Daily
Teacher Availability and Academic Support:
In the
online program with "Teacher On Call", your students will complete their schoolwork right at home and
submit it to our qualified teachers through either internet
synchronization or remote access (real time connection) each day. Our
teachers will grade the work, return it, and offer personalized academic
assistance. They personally review
all subjective problems and reports, address student questions and
concerns, and comment on student work. An internal e-mail messaging
system is built right into the curriculum, so that students and teachers
can easily communicate daily.
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Scope
and Sequence by Subject (pdf)
3rd-12th
Chart Overview
History
Language
Math
Science
SOS
High School
SOS
Middle School
Minimum
System Requirements
Basically,
all you need is a web browser and access to the internet. Parents
using a satellite or dial up will not be able to use the online
program. Air cards with broadband should work.
Switched-On Online runs on various web browsers including Mac browsers.
You do need the latest version of Flash player and you need a program
for reading .PDF files such as Adobe Reader both of which are available
at www.adobe.com.
Requirements
• Live connection to the internet (dialup* or broadband)
* If you are on dialup, the media files are available
on a DVD and may be purchased by individual users.
• Standard web browser (any one of the following)
-Firefox 0.8 and higher (we recommend Firefox, click
here to download it)
-Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher
-Safari 1.2.4 and higher (Switched-On has known
problems running on Safari. (Runs but not recommended.)
-Netscape 7.1 and higher
-Mozilla 1.4 and higher
-Opera 8 and higher
• Macromedia Flash Player Plug-in 7.0 or higher
• A PDF reader (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit PDF Reader).
We also recommend you take other steps for protecting your computer and
student on-line.
Text
content can be read to your student!
• Text to Speech feature for Firefox browsers: Install
Here
• If you are going to stream the multi-media content locally, you will
need to have a DVD drive
• If you are using a wireless network, you need to have the 802.11g
protocol
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