Technology Readiness Camps

Achieve Typing!

As more schools move their curriculum online and more careers require employees to spend hours on technology, being able to touch type is a necessary skill.  There are many online programs out there, but some students need a more teacher guided approach.  Achieve Learning Center provides a full typing skills program while motivating students through games, challenges and prizes!  Students will need to provide their own technology for this course.

Skills include:

• Teaching finger reaches for the full alphabet
• Practicing words, punctuation and sentences
• Practicing numbers, advanced symbols and accuracy

Possible enrichment skills based on student interest and speed they progress through regular course:

• Reinforcement: Practice with fun facts, vocabulary and more
• Stories: Practice with type-your-own adventure stories
• Career Prep: Explore soft skills, digital citizenship and professional writing
• Coding: Introduce coding keyboarding skills

The course is offered in 2 hour increments for a total of 10 hours.  $100 per student.  Max of 4 students per course.

2021 Course Dates​

Technology Readiness

Many schools are now using online learning apps like Google classroom, slides, docs and drive.  Students will be required to use computers throughout their learning and careers.  Achieve Learning Center provides a full Technology Readiness program.  Students will learn all the skills from our Achieve Typing! course as well as how to use Google classroom, slides, docs, drive and draw for learning activities.  The program also features challenges and prizes to keep students motivated!  Students will need to provide their own technology for this course.

Skills include:

• Teaching finger reaches for the full alphabet
• Practicing words, punctuation and sentences
• Practicing numbers, advanced symbols and accuracy
• Completing assignments in Google Classroom that have already been created for the student
• Adding work to a Google Classroom assignment
• Creating a Google Slide presentation including changing backgrounds, fonts, styles and inserting pictures, drawings and videos
• Creating a Google Doc including formatting and adding pictures and tables
• Saving files, videos and pictures to Google Drive and how to organize Google Drive
• Using Google Draw to complete diagrams or sketches that can be inserted into a Google Doc or Google Slide

Possible enrichment skills based on student interest and speed they progress through regular course:

• Reinforcement: Practice with fun facts, vocabulary and more
• Stories: Practice with type-your-own adventure stories
• Career Prep: Explore soft skills, digital citizenship and professional writing
• Coding: Introduce coding keyboarding skills

The course is offered in 4 hour increments for a total of 20 hours.  $175 per student.  Max of 4 students per course.

2021 Course Dates​