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Jun 2, 2008 7:18 pm US/Central
Collaborative Model Of Classical Education
Louise Henry, Coram Deo Academy
FLOWER MOUND, Texas
Home school organizations and private schools report they're swamped with parents considering changing schools in the fall.
For the last nine years, one North Texas school has provided what's called collaborative education.
While there is a full-time, on-campus option at
Coram Deo Academy, the collaborative parent partnership with study at home model makes the best of family time, while providing a formal, classical education.
Here are 21 reasons they say the program works.
1) Parent involvement and genuine school/family collaboration is proven to help children succeed academically.
2) The family collaborative model provides children with more family time, while allowing the child to reap the rewards of a formal school setting, including sports, music and important time with peers.
3) Independent liberal arts schools can offer a demanding classical curriculum, which can be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
4) When the school provides the rigorous curriculum for all five school days, parents can be confident of what to do as they follow approved study guidelines to support and reinforce the lesson at home.
5) Parents can connect with others who share similar priorities.
6) An at-home component allows the family to remain the child's number one influence.
7) The on-campus component provides a challenging college preparatory environment and makes it easier for the child to make the transition to higher education.
8) A vigorous, academic environment energizes students and families and keeps interest levels high.
9) High academic and moral expectations push students to move beyond their perceived academic and personal limitations.
10) With this collaborative model, parents have the opportunity to work one on-one with their child to help him/her master concepts. Parents gain insight to the child's strengths and weaknesses, and understanding as to how the child learns.
11) The solid partnership between home and school is conducive to training the wise, ethical leaders who will shape our future.
12) In a Christian environment, students learn that they can make a difference to someone else every day.
13) In a Christian environment, staff, parents and students strive to demonstrate kindness toward others, knowing that everyone is fighting a tough battle.
14) With a collaborative structure, students must take some responsibility, from a young age, to learn to set goals, reach them and then celebrate!
15) This teaches that with choices come consequences. As the child matures they are free to make their choices, but with each choice comes the corresponding consequence.
16) The self-confidence that comes from achievement, within the peer environment, inspires leadership.
17) Schools using the House system provide opportunities for student government at a higher level.
18) A liberal arts education teaches that liberty is not the freedom to do what we want, but the obligation to do what we ought.
19) This model inspires life-long learning. Learning is not something to impose upon children but something to enjoy alongside children. Parents who engage in learning with their children have the thrill of discovery TOGETHER!
20) As parents participate with children in the assignments, the whole family reads, separately and together. Students learn that readers are leaders, so families are encouraged to read books out loud together as well as reading many books independently.
21) Private schools can be large enough to offer a variety of athletics and fine arts activities, yet small enough to offer maximum participation for the child.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb
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