Getting Ready for College and Life

A 15-WEEK ONLINE COURSE FOR STUDENTS WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY

1812ada Inc. Contracts awarded by Rhode Island Department of Education, All Course Network (R.I.D.E. ACN) 2019-2023

1812ada Inc., The Cornerstone of Advocacy and Mentorship for those with Hidden Disabilities, and Beacon College offers: “Getting Ready for College and Life” as an on-line course to promote proactive self-advocacy for students with learning disabilities.

"Getting Ready for College and Life" helps students assess their current thinking and practices to see what is successful and what is not. The course includes animated sections and video content integrated into a single digital platform. This innovative on line course, developed by 1812ada, Inc., follows a proven syllabus from Beacon College that is delivered in a multi-modal, multi-sensory format with the digital version of Skip Downing’s book, “On Course.” Although Downings’s book is commercially available it has not been delivered in this integrated multisensory format.

Highlights:

• Flexible: Can be self-paced based on student needs
• Convenient: Home or classroom use
• Dynamic: Videos, animation, and printable companion book

Student use self-assessments, case studies, guided journaling and an individual research project to complete the course. "Getting Ready for College and Life" Online will help a student discover how daily actions can impact opportunities for greater success in learning and in life.

Topics Will Include:

• Accepting personal responsibility
• Identifying individual learning styles and effective learning strategies
• Discovering self-motivation
• Mastering self-management
• Employing interdependence skills (Know when to ask for help)
• Gaining self-awareness
• Developing emotional intelligence
• Building self-confidence
• Self-advocacy
• Lifelong learning

Students feel empowered as they realize they have strategies they can now use to embrace challenges, embrace failure as a learning process, embrace collaborating with others and to succeed in all aspects of life. On Course ultimately supports students in academics and in life.

Attention All Rhode Island Students:

Limited seats available at no cost for R. I. high school students for Fall, 2021 and Spring, 2022.

Pre-register on EnrollRI for the 1812ada’s course that prepares you and focuses on your needs and learning styles.

Registration opens for the Fall Semester on Monday, August 23rd, 2021

Rhode Island Registration Here Important create your account using your personal email address that is NOT your school or parents.
If you don’t have an email, you can create one for free. We will use that email to register for the class and for future correspondence.

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