Calvert Interactive

Calvert Interactive Featuring ATS

Live Online Instruction and 21st Century Learning

Calvert Interactive is our premier online learning program featuring live classes taught by a Calvert Online Instructor for Sixth through Eighth Grade students.

Calvert Interactive live classes meet online for two sessions per week on designated days to cover math, grammar, reading, and composition. Students use Calvert-provided technology to learn and interact in class, participate in assigned threaded discussions, complete group projects, conduct peer reviews online, and develop 21st Century collaborative skills that are important in today's academic setting (and tomorrow's workplace).

Calvert Interactive teaches your students time-management skills, allows for some flexibility compared to other daily live instruction options, and promotes peer-to-peer interaction in the safe environment of a Calvert virtual classroom. Enrollment in ATS Online, the online version of Calvert’s signature testing program, the Advisory Teaching Service, is included with Calvert Interactive.

Instructional Presentations

In addition to the live, interactive classes covering math, grammar, reading, and composition, students have access to pre-recorded lectures for science, history and geography. These lectures, delivered by a Calvert Online Instructor, reinforce instruction and allow for greater pacing flexibility.

View a demo lecture

Assessment and Student Progress

Student progress in Calvert Interactive is measured by a variety of projects and assignments that are suited to the online environment. Students are enrolled in the Calvert Advisory Teaching Service as part of Calvert Interactive and take modified online ATS tests. These tests provide feedback with an improved turnaround time. Your students will also be evaluated through brief objective quizzes and projects.

The Calvert Interactive Community

Your students are supported by a team of professional instructors as well as a peer group; all of whom are devoted to helping get the most out of the Calvert instructional experience. Groups of students meet in class sessions with Certified Calvert Online Instructors. Between classes, students work independently or in small groups on electronic projects that promote retention, assess master of curriculum material, encourage critical thinking, and develop technological skills.

Calvert Interactive at a glance

• At the start of the year, students are assigned a designated education team including a Calvert Online Instructor, a Calvert Advisory Teacher, and your supervisory teacher
• Students attend two live, interactive 60-minute classes per week with the Calvert Online Instructor
• Enrollment in ATS Online is included
• Live classes cover math, grammar, reading, and composition
• Students participate in threaded online discussions, peer reviews, and interactive group projects
• Students access pre-recorded online lectures to cover science, history, and geography
• Calvert Interactive is available for the Academic version of the Calvert curriculum only

Calvert Interactive Demonstrations

Peer Review Session (3 minutes)

The Calvert Online Instructor begins the session by assigning different parts of of the peer review to each student. Afterward, listen in as a student provides insightful comments on another student's work.

Threaded Discussion (640K Microsoft Word Document)

Students are asked by the Online Instructor to comment on the word play in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, which is featured in Calvert's Sixth Grade curriculum.

Solar System

In this interactive presentation, the instructor discusses the solar system. This presentation was made for students in Sixth Grade Calvert Interactive.

Endocrine System

This interactive presentation features discussion on the many functions of the Endocrine System. This presentation was made for students in Sixth Grade Calvert Interactive.

Ocean Zones

A sample interactive presentation for Sixth Grade Calvert Interactive students that teaches about various ocean zones.

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