PACE AND COURSE SEQUENCES
Pace
= Speed
“Academic pace” is how
fast material is taught or learned.
Standard Pace:
Fixed
Regular schools cover specific material each year. A class
of mixed-ability kids is taught at a fixed pace
ideal for kids somewhere in the middle of the
ability range. The pace is too fast for some and
too slow for others.
Pace for Bright
Students: Faster
Brighter, more motivated students are suited to
faster learning. A bright child may need twice standard classroom pace; a gifted child may need four times standard classroom pace.
When class pace and a student’s ideal pace are too far
out-of-sync problems arise. See discussion of
risks.
Pace at GLC:
Flexible
We resolve the pace problem by individualizing
instruction and letting pace follow each student’s
ability and motivation. Each student in a semester
tutorial covers as much as is comfortable.
Our goal: help each student learn as fast as is
comfortable.
Continuing
Sequences of Instruction
To accommodate flexible pace we have “continuing sequences
of instruction” for each subject we teach – in effect, one long course for each
subject from rudimentary to university-level,
material standard instruction may take up to 14
years to teach. Students cover as much each
semester as is comfortable and pick up next term
where they left off.
Imagine a highway stretching from the prairie to lofty
mountains. A student finds his starting point by
placement test or interview and travels at his own
speed towards mastery. Where one semester ends and
another begins is unimportant – the same highway
stretches on toward the destination. What’s
important is that the student fulfills his potential
by learning at his optimum pace.
Show your little
Ferrari some open road.
GLC tutorials have
subject sequences on:
-
mathematics
-
classical languages:
Latin
and Greek
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