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. Practicing with 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 students 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. Practicing for about 20 minutes a week, kids will earn better grades over time, have more confidence in the classroom, and accomplish a solid academic foundation for their future schooling and 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 - 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. Also, BPE 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 and 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 posts 2 new exercises on each subject every week on Sunday and expects students to finish them before midnight of the next Saturday (CST). Exercises completed after the deadline are not recorded for program credit points.

Each exercise usually has 10 problems/questions and takes about 10 minutes to complete. Students should finish an exercise as quickly as possible in one run, uninterrupted. The time used on each exercise is recorded to measure the student's skill proficiency. Each question is worth 2 points, so the total 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 carefully preview the exercise topics provided. If a student is unfamiliar with any of the upcoming topics, he/she should study them before taking the exercise. Recommended study resources are given for each topic. Parents should help to acquire these resources 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, a student 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/she can, without interruption.

During the exercise, the student may find a question unclear or the desired choice not listed. The student should make a choice anyway and proceed to the next question. After all questions are answered, he/she can work on the doubtful ones before submitting the exercise.

Once an exercise is submitted, the student can study the exercise results with answer keys provided. 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 the exercises within the specified week, he/she can still work on them afterwards. However, 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, parents should spend 5 minutes with their child 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 throughout 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/she will pass the 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. Students who get ahead early have more confidence and opportunities. Beestar brings students of different schools together, opens a broader perspective to local students, and allows kids to meet their distant peers. Students will see more potential to grow and more goals to pursue. Once they are self-motivated to learn, students 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.