Alternative Education Program

MISSION:

The mission for the Alternative Learning Program for Raleigh County Schools is to develop a learning environment that will meet the needs of students who are having difficulty learning in their current placement.  The program will provide an additional opportunity for some students to remain in a structured setting for learning, as opposed to out of school environment or expulsion.

GOALS:

• To offer flexible individualized curriculum to serve the needs of each student, with particular emphasis on reading/language arts and mathematics.

• To integrate acceptable socialization and affective skills that will build respect, commitment, and successes for the student.

• To encourage and increase success through high expectations for the students’ academic achievement and appropriate behavior.

• To provide a safe, drug-free, and excellent learning environment for students and staff members.

Expectations

Academic Skills: Those skills, which provide the basic foundation for a person necessary to get, keep, and progress on a job.

1.     Understand spoken language and speak in the language in which business is conducted.

2.     Read and understand written materials (including graphs, charts, and displays).

3.     Write in the language in which business is conducted.

4.     Understand and solve problems involving basic arithmetic and the use of the results.

5.     Use library and research skills.

6.     Assess and use specialized knowledge when necessary (e.g., the science or skilled trades) to get a job done.

7.     Think and act logically by developing the attitudes and behaviors required to get, keep, and progress on a job.

Personal Skills: Those skills related to developing the attitudes and behaviors required to get, keep and progress on a job.

1.    Identify personal, job-related interests, options, and opportunities.

2.    Demonstrate personal values and ethics in the workplace (e.g. honesty, fairness, and respect for others)

3.    Develop tentative career plans.         

4.    Attend school and/or work daily, and on-time.

5.    Complete school assignments on time.

6.    Exercise a sense of responsibility.

7.    Demonstrate self-control.

8.    Pay attention to details.

9.    Show pride in one's work.

10.  Be enthusiastic about things to be done.

11.  Follow written or verbal directions.

12.  Learn to work without supervision.

13.  Learn new skills and new ways of doing things.

Teamwork Skills: Those skills needed to work with others on a job.

1.     Identify with the goals, norms, values, and customs of a group.

2.     Know the group’s rules and values.

3.     Actively participate in a group.

4.     Listen to other group members.

5.     Communicate with all members of a group.

6.     Show sensitivity to all members of the group.

7.     Use a team approach to identify problems and devise solutions to get a job done.

8.     Be willing to compromise if necessary to accomplish the goal.

9.     Exercise “give and take” to achieve group results.

10.  Function in changing work settings and in changing groups.

11.  Determine when to be a leader and when to be a follower depending upon what is necessary to get a job done.

For information regarding student referral and placement, please contact our office.