Instructional Design
Groundbreaking instructional design delivers content tailored to be most useful for each student in the manner that will be most impactful.
The Reach program’s groundbreaking instructional techniques are ideally suited to reach struggling learners, and are delivered by the software the way a real teacher would in 1:1 sessions. By combining intelligent technology with impactful and nuanced instructional techniques, Altis Reach delivers real reading instruction and support much like a real-life instructor or tutor would.
If a student is struggling to understand a passage, rather than simply providing the answer, Reach will guide the student back to the text, will also help narrow the text and will ultimately provide the student with additional strategies to help the student extract meaning from the passage.
Altis Reach builds flexible, resilient learners by emphasizing connected learning instead of rote memorization and rules. The program anticipates many of the compensatory strategies that struggling students often use to get by without actually mastering the content.
Click to Enlarge- Example of Connected Learning:
One compensatory strategy struggling students tend to use is “key-word matching.” For example, a student may realize that each time a question or definition with the word “genuine” appears, the correct answer is “sincere”— even if the student doesn’t know what either of these words actually means. Altis Reach uses multiple different expressions of the same definition to prevent key-word matching and encourage the student to focus on meaning.
Students can review the instruction privately as often as needed. The software provides visual supports, visual cues and automated note taking for the student on key points.
