Certainly. They may contact them by email any time with any questions or to arrange phone or internet time related to their studies. Normally this would be routed through the main Academy email address in case the mentor or tutor is not available for some reason. Extensive individualized tutoring can be arranged, for an agreed remuneration to the tutor.
Students looking to receive lab credit for the science courses have two different options. They can either complete a set number of virtual labs, or, they can complete physical labs, using a physical lab kit. The virtual labs are free and accessible through links provided when students enroll in a course. The physical labs kits can be purchased in our Academy bookstore (link on our home page). Instructions for how to coordinate these labs with the courses will be provided when students enroll in the course.
This is a logical question, the answer to which we have given a good deal of thought and research. In addition to the truly excellent and concise The Great Courses Plus/Wondrium lectures by some of the world's finest math and science teachers for each subject - they know these specific subjects and what students need to understand about them incredibly well and teach that with great enthusiasm and clarity--for each half hour lecture we offer either quizzes or tests, and we also have labs (both virtual and in-hand physical kits-students may chose either or both), together with reference to the online [...]
Greats Honors Program students will each have an Academy faculty member assigned as a mentor, who will be available (September-May) to the individual student, via email or live, online, to answer questions about the program, courses, lectures or specific learning difficulties and to help them reach their educational goals. Parents are welcome to attend and participate in these. Because Greats Honors students have a broad array of courses they may take, some questions may be outside the area of expertise of their mentor. In those cases the mentor will arrange for consultation (again, via email or in a live, online classroom) [...]
Yes. In fact we encourage students doing so, provided only that they establish a history of improvement in doing so. Students need to email the appropriate tutor to arrange a new quiz or test. Papers may be resubmitted without any permission needed.
One benefit of the mentor/tutorial system is that students may receive direct feedback on their weekly work in a discussion setting. As a pedagogic model, the mentor/tutorial system has great value because it creates one-on-one learning and assessment opportunities which are highly authentic and difficult to fake. Each month the Greats Honors student’s mentor will email both the students and parents reports of the student’s progress including all lectures viewed and assessments submitted with results (i.e. usually grades). This relieves parents and administrators of the difficulty of attempting to monitor and assess their student’s studies. An example of an Oxford tutorial [...]
Not at all – it’s the materials, the books, the lectures, the teachers, that need to be the best, in order to bring out the best in all of our students. The educational culture in which students are immersed strongly influences their subsequent intellectual growth and development. This was Dr. Adler’s point in the above quotation cited: the best education is not just best for some students, it is best for all students. “In the early 1930s, University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins was asked whether Great Books seminars, then open only to a picked handful of students, should be accessible [...]
9th -12th grades (age 14) and up. Do not let the fact that it includes some college-level lectures mislead you into thinking it is not for high-school-age students beginning in 9th grade–it is designed for them. Dr. Mortimer Adler long ago (beginning in the 1920’s) noted the decline in American education, and proposed a return to the study of the Great Books and the Socratic (conversational dialectic) method of studying them as two of the major parts of the remedy. He also noted, over many decades of observation and experiment, that teenagers, after the substantial completion of their education in the [...]
The Great Courses Plus/Wondrium is a subscription video on demand service by The Great Courses™ - the leading global media brand for lifelong learning. With 300 courses of in-depth videos by the world's greatest professors, students will always have something fascinating to learn about. The Greats Honors Program uses and assess about 30 of these courses in its program, however Greats students have access to all of them. There are never any commercials no matter how much students watch, and they can pause, rewind, fast forward or re-watch as often as they like.[/fusion_toggle] The Academy homeschool program [...]
Since our founding in A.D. 2000, we have aimed at providing our students with the very best-the most excellent education: the greatest books, materials, courses and teachers. This unique, online honors program, combining the Angelicum Academy’s Great Books Program and The Great Courses Plus/Wondrium, completes that goal, and is, we believe, an unparalleled educational program. At the University of Oxford and some other universities, the undergraduate course of study focused on the classics of ancient Greece and Rome is titled Literae Humaniores (human literature, concerned with human learning-the humanities). It consisted of detailed study contrasting the great works of classical civilization [...]
