About

Seven Hills Honors Academy^TM

Teaching Philosophy

1. Use a holistic approach. This includes teaching life skills and maintaining harmony in the school environment.
2. Low student–to-teacher ratio. Between five and ten students per class, mostly on the lesser end.
3. Laughter is allowed. There is an ancient Roman saying, “Humor may succeed where a lecture does not.” Entertainment leads to joy in learning and memory retention.
4. Provide structure and certainty. These are universal needs of children.
5. Catch the students doing something right. They are used to only being caught doing something wrong. Looking for right and wrong in them shows them the school is not their enemy.
6. Lose sight neither of the troubled nor the gifted. Both may fall behind in a regular school setting.
7. Difficulty in moderation. Don’t allow the work to be too hard or too easy as long as the expectations are higher than what each student thought possible.
8. Make yourself obsolete. Pass along your skills so that the students become self-reliant.
9. Belief in students. Understand where they are now, but do not doubt where they can go.

Over the decades our leadership has guided thousands of children in large and small classes to the point where they love education and excel at it. They ranged from the troubled to the gifted (whose gifts were no longer neglected). One-on-one attention, for those who opt in, comes at a higher rate but for a time this might be exactly what’s needed. Many children benefit from and enjoy long-term assistance and we are fully prepared to do that, but we believe our job is to make ourselves a resource and then help the next child.

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