At Nashoba Valley Technical High School, you can pretend you’re a crime-scene investigator.
You can learn how to invest your money wisely.
You can have kids your age from across the country critique the short stories you’ve written.
And you can earn credits doing it.
Nashoba Tech is a member of Virtual High School, a Maynard-based, nonprofit collaborative of more than 400 schools across the country and world that uses online education to expand learning opportunities for students and teachers.
Virtual High School, or VHS, is a way to expand students’ horizons beyond the curriculum offered in the school.
Courses are taught online, with an instructor providing lessons and one-on-one guidance through the Internet. Students are required to log on at least once a week and receive feedback from the instructor and from other students across the world through online chat boards.
VHS instructors are supposed to be available online several times throughout the course of the day in case some student, somewhere, needs assistance.
According to Carol Heidenrich, Nashoba Tech’s director of technology, “We wanted to offer more electives, but being a smaller school, we can’t hire teachers” to teach classes that only a few students may want to take.
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