U.S. schools bond with educators in other countries to enhance offerings
Petersburg High School sits on an island in Alaska’s Southeast Panhandle, where many of a land is a inhabitant forest, and a 140-student propagandize in new years has struggled with shrinking enrollment, staff, and electives. So when the
Virtual High School Global Consortium
, a nonprofit classification specializing in collaborative online preparation and veteran development, offering 25 tyro spots during a reduced cost in sell for one Advanced Placement teacher, Petersburg took a deal.
“This way, we could offer engineering, architecture, art history, veterinary science, and a garland of things we couldn’t offer a students otherwise,” pronounced Petersburg English and Spanish clergyman Sue Hardin, who underneath a understanding has facilitated weekly AP classes for students in schools in some Northeastern states as good as Oklahoma and Washington state, and even in China, Switzerland, and Venezuela. “And we conclude a farrago we get in return.”
Working with scarcely 700 schools in 43 countries, Virtual High School, or VHS, is one of a series of educational matchmakers that concede brick-and-mortar schools to hoard competent instructors from anywhere in a world. It requires teachers like Ms. Hardin, who has been with a consortium for 5 years, to pass a exclusive 16-week, graduate-level training module before being…
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