Future School

The complete classroom resource for Literacy and Numeracy.

Future School has been developing and delivering educational materials since 1984. Our focus has been on the two core subjects of mathematics and English language, primarily for use in the classroom and as study tutorials in the home, where a student can use the resource for revision, homework or preparation for examinations. The online program has evolved from many years research in the education design and development field, using experienced qualified teachers in their fields of expertise to ensure that the materials provide measurable pedagogical outcomes for the schools, teachers and students.

Future School has, over a period of 6 years, designed, developed and delivered the Basic Skills Tests for Years 3, 5 and 7 for several State Ministries of Education, being responsible for the design, collation, distribution, training, marking, psychometrics and reporting to government, schools and parents with student outcomes.

Curriculums

Future School has developed curricula specifically aligned to schools in each state of Australia, India, New Zealand, The Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom [England & Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland] and the United States of America, aligning its programs to each country/region's syllabus and bench-marking its lessons against Key Stages and appropriate school years and grades.

Attainment Levels

The Future School programs have also been aligned to the appropriate UK attainment levels with each lesson specifically aligned for teacher's review of the Future School resources in-line with course attainment criteria.

Accreditation

The Future School programs have been accredited throughout the world by governments, specifically the Open Distance Learning and Quality Council (ODLQC), Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT), Curriculum On-line (COL), many Local Education Authorities and School and Academy Trusts.

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Future School developed and released its own On-line Learning Management System (LMS) in 2006, which provides for the integration of a student's use at school and in the home. This important break through enabled the resources to be assigned by teachers in the classroom and used by students anywhere and anytime - 24/7 access. The LMS was specifically designed to be platform independent, capable of being utilised by PC, MacIntosh, Linux systems with broadband internet access and a web browser being the only necessary criteria.

2004V3 Scorm Compliant

For many schools the availability of quality resources is critical to their overall classroom delivery and with the advent of computers in the classroom, electronic whiteboards, projectors and computer labs, the importance has escalated dramatically. For many, the problem continues because schools have or are implementing their own Learning Management Systems (LMS) and they are determined to implement their own resource centre for their students to access the necessary materials.

For your school to use its own LMS the materials must be 2004V3 Scorm compliant to be interfaced successfully and to ensure that your LMS is capable of downloading the materials for use by the teachers and students on demand. Future School's Online mathematics and English language content is 2004V3 Scorm compliant and can be accessed by any Scorm compliant LMS.

What that fundamentally means for your school is that the Future School lesson materials can be distributed to your school by any Learning Management System (or Learning Platform) that is capable of delivering SCORM compliant materials in-line with global educational standards and best practice, including being compliant to Curriculum Online (COL) metadata tagging specifications.

Future School - the perfect resource

Future School enhances the teaching within schools by providing the appropriate tools to assist teachers to effectively monitor each student's progress both in the classroom and through homework activities;

• The Online Learning Systems provide professionally developed lessons by experienced qualified teachers that can be presented via whiteboard technologies for whole of class or specific group support;
• Where the teacher identifies special need requirements, specifically to create groups of learning addressing remedial or accelerated learning real-time teaching assistance;
• Teacher and student confidence in the materials is paramount in determining positive outcomes, and the interactive capability of the lessons confirm immediately that they provide the monitoring and administration to effectively increase teacher/student interface by automating the tedious teacher tasks and dynamically updating students records with results and lesson outcomes; and
• Teachers have instant access to their students' results and can monitor pre-marked homework at the press of a button. Easy to access - easy to use - and as easy as 1 - 2 - 3 for both teacher and student.

What you need to know

The complete suite of lessons can be down-loaded through your school's Learning Platform, or via the Future School LMS. However, you will need to confirm your school's current access to the Future School Online Learning Services:

1. Identify if your school has a Learning Platform that can access the Future School Programs.
2. If you know your school does NOT currently have access, then we can easily assist in providing the necessary information for your school and arrange instant access to the Future School programs of your choice.
3. If you require our assistance in either clarification of the process or in speaking to your school, please contact us as indicated below:

Contact the Future School Support Team

by simply completing our Online Request Form for immediate assistance.

Enjoy your Future School experience!