Curriculum Features
The Academy program recognizes multiple learning styles of students with Web-based, multimedia content; online assessment and evaluation throughout the course; hands-on labs; and instructor training and support by providing the features listed below.

Accessibility
The Academy program is committed to engage various learning styles with multimedia such as video products that allow for visual repetition of lessons and activities, as well as provide alternative methods of instructional delivery to students.
The Academy program assists schools by creating instructional materials that provide accessibility options to meet the needs of diverse student populations in order to ensure that the curriculum is ADA compliant.
Examples of accessibility options include maintaining and providing curriculum text documents that can be utilized for text-to-speech device conversion.
Learning Disabilities   (Windows Media - 14.3 MB)  Mac Download (13.5 MB)

Academic and IT Skill Standard Alignment
The Academy curriculum is aligned with academic and IT skill standards.
Standards alignment includes data gathering, validation and maintenance.
The standards database stores data related to state standards and various skill clusters.
As IT industry trends and standards change and as the associated curriculum changes, the standards database will be updated.
Standard Alignment Demo (11.9 MB)

Best Practices
Best practices are specifically targeted at improving the overall teaching quality of the Academy instructors.
Best teaching practices are created to underscore the commitment to excellence in instruction and model effective instructional practices with a diverse set of teachers.
Kinesthetic Binary   (Windows Media - 11.5 MB)  Mac Download (10.6 MB)