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QSI Virtual School (QVS)

QVS—QSI Virtual School
Frantisek Plasil, QVS Director

QSI Virtual School serves all QSI brick-and-
mortar schools that need online courses for their
students. The presumption is that face-to-face
instruction is a preferred way of learning for school
children, but in some cases face-to-face instruction
is not possible. Most enrollments into online
courses fall into one of the following categories:

4 a student needs to take a course that is not
offered at the local QSI school;
4 a student needs to take several courses in one
year, and there is a scheduling conflict with the
courses being offered at the same time at the
local QSI school;
4 a student needs to take an overload course to
graduate on time in the spring;
4 special circumstances, such as health or
professional interests, do not allow a student to
attend regular face-to-face instruction in his/
her QSI school.

All QVS teachers are QSI-contracted teachers
working at one of the brick-and-mortar QSI schools including rigor, student–teacher and student– required for students to earn a QSI academic
around the world, or they are ex-QSI teachers who student interaction. QVS courses are delivered diploma. This will allow small QSI schools without
work from home. through the Moodle learning management system. a secondary program to accommodate families
with older children.
QVS courses follow the regular QSI mastery- In 2017–18, QVS offers 30 secondary classes,
learning curriculum, and are designed to be as including 10 AP courses. The plan for the near 120 QSI students are enrolled in QVS courses
close as possible to regular classroom instruction— future is that QVS will offer all courses that are in 2017–18.

A very exciting thing happens for QVS in
May 2018. Tadeas Tetak, a student from QSI
International School of Bratislava, will graduate.
A junior professional golf player, for the past
four years Tadeas has been taking all of his
secondary courses online. Being able to combine
his professional and school responsibilities allows
Tadeas to pursue his golf passion while earning
secondary school credits at the same time. Tadeas
has been working very diligently—both on the
golf course as well as in his online courses—
since 2013. We are very excited that Tadeas will
graduate with a QSI academic diploma at the end
of this school year. Go, Teddy!

QSI Mission Statement Why “Quintile?”

Virtually every five year old comes to school iii) ensuring that students engage in learning at Quality Schools International, as a unique
eager to learn. The mission of Quality Schools a level which is challenging and yet a level for educational organization, distinguishes itself in
International (QSI) is to keep this urge to learn which each student has the prerequisite skills one way with the division of its academic year into
alive in every child in QSI schools. Our schools are necessary for success. five quintiles. At QSI, time serves as a resource
established to provide in the English language a We believe in providing an aesthetically pleasing rather than a limitation, and the quintiles help pace
quality education for students in the cities we serve. physical surrounding under the charge of a caring student learning through the year. The name of our
These students are the children of parents of many staff who believe their students will be successful, newpaper reflects this apportioning of time, used
nationalities who have come to a foreign country, and who use time with the students as a resource to help all students succeed.
usually for a limited stay of a year or more. Some for learning rather than as a boundary condition to
students are permanent residents, citizens of the determine when a unit of learning begins and ends. Visit Our Web Site
host country. We believe in providing resources such as books,
Our schools follow a logical model of education learning materials, and educational technology. In
which measures success by the accomplishments and the world today children need to become proficient
attitudes of our students. We believe that all of our in the use of computers and related technology as
students can succeed, that their successes encourage tools to accomplish a myriad of tasks.
them to continue in a pattern of success, and that it is Finally, we believe in working with parents
the schools’ responsibility to provide the conditions to encourage our students to adopt qualities of
for success. These conditions include living which lead to success long after formal www.qsi.org
i) developing clear statements in measurable schooling has ended. These include universally
terms of what the student will do to accepted “success orientations” of trustworthiness,
demonstrate mastery of learning, kindness/politeness, responsibility, in-dependent
ii) providing the time and resources needed for endeavor, concern for others, group interaction,
each student to attain mastery, and and aesthetic appreciation.