Parents! Do you have middle schoolers and/or high schoolers who want to score 5 -10 points higher on their future ACT/SAT test? Here's what I learned at the last State Board of Education meeting last Friday:
I saw a presentation on the "March2Success" program that is sponsored by the US Army and is available to the public for FREE on-line! Parents, teachers, mentors and KIDS as young as 8th graders can all do it whenever they have free time. March2Success is designed to first assess a student's math, science and English skills and discover the student's weaknesses. Next it will kick out lesson plans for your student based on their weaknesses. Reading comprehension is a big focus. March2Success has a 70% success rate getting kids out of remediation and back into regular English classes. (How awesome is that!)
March2Success also has SAT/ACT practice tests and flash cards available to your student; the questions come right off the tests themselves. There is also a computer game in the March2Success program called "Zero Hour Threat" that tests the kids' knowledge in a fun and engaging way. The best part is that if the student does not get the question right, the game immediately gives him/her feedback as to why he/she got the question wrong. 83.6% of the students using March2Success increased their math general purpose test scores using this program.
Here's how to access this awesome tool: http://www.march2success.com/. A registration site will pop up to get your student registered for the program. An additional tool is offered to help assess your student's interests/talents/personal strengths for possible future career ideas. It's called the ASVAB test. (It is NOT a military test; don't worry! I was assured that there are no obligations.) It is the only test that is taken on paper. Everything else is on-line. The benefits of taking the ASVAB test in addition to March2Success is greater understanding and awareness of possible career paths for your student.
Let me know how you like it when you try it!
Blog in next time for Day Eighteen!
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