The Challenge Difference
What makes our middle and high school programs different?
Homeschool through middle and high school
Integration
Relationships
Flexibility and Support
Intentional Themes to Develop Life Skills
What is it that you really want your child to take away from their education? The ideas of ownership, discipline, true freedom, choices and consequences, and leadership? Every Classical Conversations Challenge level is designed with an intentional theme to help students develop and understand the skills and practices necessary to invest personally and be responsible for their own education as they pursue Truth and their God-given purpose.
Challenge A - Personal Investment Builds Ownership
Challenge B - Ownership Builds Discipline
Challenge I - Discipline Brings Freedom
Challenge II - Freedom Brings Choices
Challenge III - Choices Bring Consequences
Challenge IV - Consequences Birth Leadership
Conversations NOT Lectures
Let’s face it. Teenagers (actually most of us) tune out lectures. At this stage, students are created with an innate desire to converse. They want to talk about what they are learning. They want to argue, contrast, compare, dialogue, persuade and more. Our classrooms are led as forums with a tutor facilitating the learning and discussion, NOT lecturing. By actually dialoguing about what they have learned in the past week, they learn even more about it! They discover new perspectives and ideas. And they are encouraged to come back the next week prepared to contribute to the conversation again! Our tutors are trained to help the students learn how to have conversations in a respectful and honoring way. Students learn how to listen, how to respond, how to build logical arguments and persuade others to their point of view. In classes larger than 12, this is impossible to manage. By limiting the class size, this ensures that everyone will get a chance to discuss their assignments and no one will be left out. In the upper levels, students also get to practice actually leading the class! This provides a huge level of accountability and allows them to be comfortable with leading and speaking in front of groups in manners that other programs just cannot provide. We also don't waste valuable class time with tests and grading. This is something that can be done at home, while dialoguing with a group of like-minded students who have read and researched the same things isn't always as easy to do on your own. We reserve class time for these discussions and leave the stuff you can do alone with a test book and answer sheet for home.
Christ-centered
God is the creator of all things and therefore as we study the things He has created, we are learning more about Him and His character. At Classical Conversations, we don’t need to add an additional subject to study the Bible because we pursue Truth in every subject and know that the heavens declare His glory. He is at the center of everything we do. As the students move through their subjects, they are encouraged to seek out His authority on everything they learn, making every subject an endeavor in learning more about Christ.
Focus is on teaching HOW to learn
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