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Any experiences with acceleration using on-line courses at the elementary level? There is not enough time for teacher to deliver above level instruction in the current general ed classroom (best hope would be 5 or 10 minutes of instruction during the entire 60 minutes of daily general ed math). Hopkins program is closed for maintenance currently. Stanford offers a Khan academy-like program and a tutor available program. Are there any others that are common core aligned?

Our school contracts with Edgenuity for cyber courses. My DD12 took the the accelerated 6th grade pre-Algebra class over the summer and 7th grade Honors Algebra during class time in 6th grade, along with 3 other students.

What would the class level be?

elementary

elementary

I am sorry...not enough information to be helpful for you.

You child is what age?
Your child reads at what level? (Most online work will need a certain reading comprehension)
Your child wants to take an elementary class? What exact level? What is the discrepancy between placed level and level of class you want to take.

Any experiences with acceleration using on-line courses at the elementary level?


Yes, in a word.

What is your child's learning style/preferences, and personality?

What subject(s)? What percentage of your child's instructional time?

Reading is probably at a 4th or 5th grade level. I forget the exact lexile range.
Our issue is that the gifted program is all handled by the regular ed teacher, so the length of instruction time devoted to differentiation and instruction at a higher level is really not at all equitable for a high achiever vs the general curriculum and the rest of the class. The "year of progress" is being stunted. We've been doing Khan Academy at home, and while it advances knowledge, I know the opportunity to participate in group work for practice and application would be missed if that replaced classroom instruction. We would've subject skipped him had it not been for the school not aligning the two math periods which would now cause specials to be missed if subject accelerated. I'm hoping to find a happy medium of staying in the current grade subject, but receiving actual instruction "length" that's on par with other students (I want our "fair share" of proper on level instruction and practice/application).

If there are 30 kids in the class and an hour maths your son's fair share is 2 minutes a day or 10 minutes a week. Is that enough? Or do you want you son treated as a 'group' ie. 4 groups getting 15 minutes a day each even though one is a group of 1 and the other groups of 9 or 10? It gets a bit tricky.

I do see your point at the student level, but the kids on level 25th to 75th percentile get an hours worth of on level instruction daily.The curriculum is aimed at the middle and the middle gets the most on level instruction and practice. A below level child even gets their half hour of remediation weekly, but the above level child is forgotten and has to sit through known material despite doing well on pre-testing.