Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments John Hopkins vs. Northwestern Univ.? online course

AmyC15- did you have someone at the school supervising the course or do you?

That class sound wonderful. I wonder if the other online schools have the reporting like that. Did the school have any objections that is was not their "brand of Math".(for example we have saxon math at school) Does it matter that she is missing the other class?

I keep thinking that I need to have my son do a online course at home very independently before he could bring it into school. Was this her first experience with online learning? Did she just start this all on her own wit out anyone at school helping?

If you have any other advice on getting this into a school smoothly please let me know.

My son is a very motivated student. He loves math and I think this would be wonderful. My only concern is that he would experience this with no one to share his excitment with. But then again, I not sure anyone in his class get so excited about Math.

Online learning after school?

My DS9 is busy with sports 3 times a week. Right now he does about 15 to 30 minutes of Homework. It is all easy for him.

I would be interested in him trying an online learning class after school but I have some concerns. I don't feel like my son needs any more Homework time. I would like him to get to try this online learning at home more. Next summer, he is probally going to camp everyday so he probally won't want to do the online learning then unless I can find something not accellorated. I would like to be able to go to the school with it and say he can do this, see how it worked for him. I think this will be key to his success because the teacher maintance is the issue. My issue is fitting it in where it is enjoyable. I think I need to talk to the online schools again. If anyone has suggestions please advise. Thanks

hi Dandy,
Thank you for the advice. The public school is all new to me and so far sucks!