ACCESS

ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, & Students Statewide. It is a wonderful program that allows students the opportunity to advance their knowledge when their schools may not warrant it. ACCESS provides high quality learning from a classroom through internet. These are internet based courses that are done through video and strictly online. You may be able to view these during the lecture or even after! It allows many benefits for the students to get equal education opportunities. All of the teachers are AL certified and all of the courses have to meet the Alabama Course of study and other national standards. The teachers, not only being certified, have to meet other standards like organization is required, preparation, constant interaction and engaging activities to hold the students attention. Other benefits are that it has improved test scores as well as things like lab simulations can be repeated many times. Teachers are also readily available to students who are participating in ACCESS. Teachers can hold real time chats, review sessions with whiteboards online and much more!
I think that ACCESS is a wonderful opportunity to allow students, especially ones in lower funded schools, to be able to take courses that will challenge them and help them in College Prep. All students should be allowed to take any courses they are able to take and I believe that this is the first step. I would definitely recommend checking it out!