Summer is an opportunity for students to gain additional credits towards their high school diploma. Online learning offers the option of working at your own pace, deepening your learning, reducing next year’s academic course load, making up lost credits, or planning for a reduced course load in grade 12.
This summer, Evoke Learning continues to partner with Virtual High School and offer the Evoke Summer Credit Program. Through this unique service, clients will receive the one-on-one support they need from an Evoke tutor while taking a high school credit course online. The Evoke Summer Credit Program is an alternative to the traditional classroom. Our tutors will work with students to help them meet their academic goals, organize their material and course work, identify information gaps, stay on task and adhere to deadlines, incorporate frequent learning breaks, minimize frustration and stress, develop critical learning skills, and continue effectively at their own pace. Evoke tutors are also available to proctor the assessments and exams required to complete the course. Tutors are available in all subject areas.
With the flexibility of the Evoke Summer Credit Program, students can still maintain a regular summer routine – working a part-time job, heading up to the cottage, spending time with family and friends – and still be able to meet their academic goals. Students can meet their tutors in office, in their own home, or online. Students from anywhere in Ontario are eligible to participate in the program and earn high school credits.
For additional information regarding the Evoke Learning Summer Credit Program, please contact:
Kate Lloyd, Evoke Learning Toronto – [email protected]
Denise Harding, Evoke Learning York Region – [email protected]
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1. The Learning Institute Conference
The Learning Institute will feature two single topic sessions:
The Neuroscience of Learning 4.00pm – 6.00pm
The Neuroscience of Learning is designed to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the neuroscience involved in the learning process. Participants will learn effective, brain-based classroom strategies to motivate student learning.
Teaching Math 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Teaching Math: Why Students Struggle and What You Can Do to Help takes a close look at the key cognitive and neurological factors that cause students to struggle with mathematical content, including our emerging understanding of dyscalculia. The workshop presents evidence-based, hands-on instruction in practices that can help all students learn math. The strategies, tools, and resources shared at these two sessions will benefit all learners.
When: Friday, March 28, 2014
Location:
York Catholic District School Board Office
320 Bloomington Road West, Aurora, Ontario
For more information, please visit:
http://ldayr.org/wsite/wp-content/new-uploads/2014/01/landmark-conference4.pdf
2. The Impact of Working Memory Deficits: “In and Out of School”
Working Memory Workshop for Parents
Working memory is your brain’s Post-it note. It makes all the difference to successful learning. Several research studies show a correlation between high working memory and a kid’s success in school.
Working memory is the ability to hold information in your head and manipulate it mentally. Students in school need this memory on a daily basis for a variety of tasks such as following teachers’ instructions or remembering sentences they have been asked to write down. Outside of school, working memory also has its impact.
Date: Friday, April 11, 2014 / 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Location:
Loyal True Blue and Orange Home
11181 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, L4S 1L2
For more information, please visit:
http://ldayr.org/wsite/wp-content/new-uploads/2014/01/workingmemory_parents.pdf
3. What is it and Why is it so Important for School?
Working Memory Workshop for Teachers
New research suggests that working memory may be key in predicting which students do well in school. In fact, kids with the best working memories, rather than those with the highest IQs, seem to become the future high-achievers. Researchers have concluded that IQ and working memory are two separate skills and that, of the two, working memory is the better predictor of learning outcomes and school success.
Date: Friday, April 11, 2014 / 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Location:
Loyal True Blue and Orange Home
11181 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, L4S 1L2
For more information, please visit:
http://ldayr.org/wsite/wp-content/new-uploads/2014/01/workingmemory_teachers.pdf
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