ACCESS

Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide (ACCESS) provides high quality courses and teachers all though technology! This program is perfect for an alternate resourse for students who attend low-income schools that do not offer higher education classes. The goal and misson of this program is to provide an equal access to all students taking part in highschool courses.

This program will have many features. Videoconfrenceing and internet based courses are two features. Videoconferencing is a visual link between two or more locations. Some benefits of this are that students get to interact with other children from other parts of the world! Another is that students will get to be involved in courses that are not offered at his/her own schools, as well as having more teachers visually present in the schools. Another feature is internet based courses. This means that the course is taken only online. The perks of this is that students will have easy access to work, and notes. This has also been proven to raise test scores. E-teachers are very well qualified and have an opportunity to connect with kids. There are also buit in quality courses. For example, AP classes! Overall this program is a great way to expand the horizons of young students. It provides a way for students to learn out of the classroom setting and could also promote their test scores!