Abeka’s Curriculum Approach

Our school uses the Abeka curriculum because it uses spiraling methods, learning preferences, and cross-subject integration which provides just the right approach to learning. Here are some facts about each:

• Abeka’s spiral approach—building from the simple to the complex, with frequent review and application within each grade and from grade to grade.
  • This means our teachers prevent learning gaps from the first day material is taught with Abeka until the last.
  • Since repetition is the key to learning, concepts are truly learned—and remembered.
  • Because concepts aren’t presented just one time, or in one way, it means our curriculum is giving your students multiple opportunities to be successful.
  • Rough days are less stressful for students because they don’t have just ONE CHANCE to make sure they understand a concept.
• Learning preferences—when faced with the 3 major learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic, or hearing, seeing, and doing), learning preferences are how you prefer, if given a choice, to learn something. Instead of favoring 1 and neglecting the others, Abeka incorporate all 3.
  • By using all 3, we are teaching your students to be adaptable, resilient learners.
  • We’re preparing them for college and real life.
  • We’re doing what the best teachers do to help their students learn.
• Cross-subject integration—pulling in concepts from 1 subject into several others to reinforce understanding and tie learning together.
  • Learning comes to life more with cross-subject integration (like when students learn about Abraham Lincoln in history, read about him in language arts, do a project with pennies and top hats in art, and write a story using what they know).
  • Students feel a sense of familiarity and accomplishment when they see something they’ve already learned (like spelling words) “pop up” in another subject (like science or literature). They’re set up to succeed.
  • It engages curiosity and emphasizes the big picture.