The Challenge program is for students 12 and older. For thirty weeks they study six challenging subjects (or content areas) at home while practicing dialectic and rhetoric skills in the context of universal themes and ideas within a community setting.
An experienced homeschooling parent tutors the students in math, foreign language, and science labs. Students also receive suggestions for improving their written and oral works. Other coursework is shared through facilitated discussions and contemplations. We call each level a
Challenge rather than a grade as we want students to be enrolled in the level they are
prepared to study.
Two key concepts: integrated ideas and personal relationship.
We believe subjects cannot be taught in isolation. For example, in higher learning, math finds its application and climax in the sciences; similarly literature analysis cannot be separated from philosophy, theology, and history. Our Challenge tutors lead all Challenge seminars with a two-fold purpose: first, to develop a strong personal relationship with the students; second, to lead the integration of ideas, skills and content. Cultivating wisdom and virtue through
classical, Christian community, in order to know God and to make Him known.
Education is guiding students into a relationship through a relationship.
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