Beestar Progressive Exercises (BPE)

Overview

Knowledge and skills are more and more important in this competitive world. To meet the challenges in the future, young students need to master the fundamentals in grade school. Doing exercises is an effective way of achieving this goal.

Beestar Progressive Exercise (BPE) is a systematic knowledge application and skill practice program designed to help young kids master what they learn. The interesting and challenging exercises strengthen their skills, bring deeper understanding to concepts, and provoke imaginative thoughts.

Beestar Progressive Exercise (BPE) covers the core subjects taught in school, such as math, reading, science, and social studies. For about 10 minutes a day, kids will earn better grades over time, have more confidence in classroom, and accomplish a solid academic foundation for their future career.

BPE Content Standard

Pioneering the historic No Child Left Behind initiative, Texas has developed one of the most comprehensive school curriculum and assessment systems. BPE started with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) system. It is the knowledge and skill standard for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests. In the development, BPE also actively absorbed elements from the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) system, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and the California Standardized Testing and Reporting Program (STAR). They clearly specified the objectives and requirements of each subject at every grade level. BPE focuses on these objectives and presents exercises week by week with a slightly faster pace than public school curriculum systems.

In order to accomplish mastery, BPE emphasizes knowledge applications . It uses vivid daily life problems to bring insights to concepts. It provides timed practices to elevate students' proficiency.

Toward the end of each term, BPE provides exercises beyond the TEKS standard to prepare students for higher grade learning. BPE devises problems to challenge students beyond the obvious ideas. It encourages students to apply cross-subject concepts, skills, and strategies to solve problems creatively.

Exercise Format

BPE runs in three terms a year: fall, spring, and summer. It follows the school calendar and curricula for the fall and spring semesters (Fall and spring have different exercise problems). Summer is the last term of a year. It is designed to prepare students for the next grade level. Parents need to select/register exercise programs term by term (how to register?).

In each term, BPE presents 2 new exercises on each subject every week (on Sunday) and expects students to finish them before the next Sunday. Exercises done after the Sunday due time are not recorded for program credit points.

Each exercise usually has 10 problems/questions and takes about 10 minutes. Students should finish an exercise as quickly as possible in one run, uninterrupted. The time used is recorded to measure the skill proficiency. Each question is 2 points, so the full score for each exercise is 20 points.

Students do exercises week by week throughout the semester. They are ranked by scores and time used. Outstanding students go to the honor roll and earn trophies.

Exercise Process

Before an exercise week starts, a student should preview the exercise topics provided carefully. If any of the upcoming topics are in doubt, he should study them before taking the exercise. Recommended study resources are given for each topic. Parents should help to acquire them when needed.

At the planned exercise time, a student should have a pen and a piece of paper handy for drawing and calculating. Unless stated otherwise, he should not use calculators or other tools.

As speed is recorded to measure performance, the student should work on the problems as quickly as he can, without interruption.

During the exercise, the student may find a question not clear, or his desired choice is not listed. He should make a choice anyway and proceed to the next one. After all questions are answered, he can work on the doubtful ones before submitting the exercise.

Once an exercise is submitted, the student can study the exercise result with answer keys presented. For questions still outstanding, parents should help to explain the answers. If necessary, parents can direct the student to the references for further study.

If a student cannot finish his exercises within the specified week, he can still work on them afterwards. But the results are not accounted for his credit points.

At the end of every week, Beestar sends exercise results to parents. Parents can clearly see the areas needing improvements, so as to assist their children in study. Parents can also view statistic data to compare their kids to other participants. Before the next week starts, the parent should spend 5 minutes with his kid to review last week's results, discuss strategies to improve performance, and set goals for the new week.

Exercise points are accumulated week by week through the semester. At its end, BPE uses the accumulated score to measure overall performance and recognize those excellent exercisers.

BPE Outcome

BPE's level is higher than TAKS or most other states' assessment tests. If a student does well in BPE, he will pass state's standard tests with ease. BPE emphasizes knowledge application and skill proficiency. With BPE training background, students are poised to earn excellent grades in the future SAT and AP examinations.

Start Early

Beestar believes in early education. Kids get ahead early have more confidence and opportunities. Beestar intends to bring students of different schools together and open a broader perspective to local kids. The web site allows kids to meet their distant peers. They will see more potential to grow, more goals to pursue. Once they are self-motivated to learn, they will become smarter and happier in study.

Beestar has provided such an Internet stage for young kids to show themselves academically. It is up to the parents to introduce this opportunity to their kids. Kids will learn, compete, and have fun. The parents will see improved school records with much less effort. Beestar sincerely hopes that you start early to benefit early.