NCA's Philosophical Beliefs
- Each student is a dual creature with both body and soul.
- Education should be Biblically based in order to help each student reach his/her fullest potential.
- Biblical principles must be the controlling influence in the learning environment.
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NCA’s Objectives
- To emphasize the individuality of the student and to assist the child in understanding self and how to properly respond to others.
- To develop self-confidence, creativity, goal setting, communications, and academics.
- To promote self-discipline by training students to be consistent, appreciative, responsible, and complete in character and behavior.
- To assist each child in seeking his or her purpose for life’s service and necessary development in view of eternity.
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NCA’s Approach to Education
NCA educates through an individualized accelerated approach where each child works on his own level of achievement. This is done through a non-graded curriculum which allows each student to work at his/her own speed.
Student level of achievement may vary from subject to subject.
Our five basic academic disciplines are:
A student must master these five CORE subjects before he is able to participate in music, arts, sports, and foreign languages.
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What Makes NCA Work?
NCA has been successful because of these three lock-step approaches toward education:
Our Reading Readiness Program is designed to develop basic skills which prepare the child to get ready to learn to read. In the a.m., this program is structured with animal songs and stories, but the afternoons are for rest, physical, and social activities. Within 8-12 weeks, our students are well behaved, structured in activities, and thinking independently.
Our Learning To Read Program is designed to prepare a child for individualized instruction within a period of 11-15 weeks. Therefore, when other children are beginning school, our students are beginning to read.
In our Individualized Learning Program each student is diagnosed in each subject and is placed on an individualized academic level that they are capable of handling. Each student is assigned to their individual office in one of our “Learning Centers” where they are free to work independently at their own pace. This method promotes self-confidence and enables the student to use their potentials to the fullest and it also allows slower learners to receive the needed attention.
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NCA’s Curriculum
For three years, The Rochester City School District reviewed and compared the scope and sequence of our curriculum. They determined that NCA met all the educational requirements in providing quality education by the state and the district. The evidence over the years substantiates their findings, because 85% of the students who have left NCA and have entered as many as five districts in Monroe County were placed 1 to 2 grades higher than their chronological age.
Our textbooks are called “PACES” which are designed to enable students to discover the joy of individualized learning. There are 60 biblically based character traits strategically placed in our curriculum to develop character and control behavior.
Also, our curriculum is designed to develop critical thinking skills, stresses the willingness to learn and personal discovery of information. Each PACE is self-contained and a self-instructional unit of material designed to build interest in learning, to assure mastery of academic content, and to provide instruction in wisdom. Incorporated into each PACE are developmental elements designed to build and enhance a child’s critical thinking skills. These elements include:
- rote memory (memorization)
- comprehension (understanding)
- application (applying skills)
- synthesis (deductive reasoning)
- and evaluation (test/compare)
These six building blocks are integrated in the curriculum and made NCA a leader in providing excellence in education since its beginning.
AT NCA, WE PROMISE TO GIVE OUR STUDENTS, A RIGHT START, A REGULATED SETTING, AND REWARDING SUCCESS!
SHOULDN’T YOUR CHILD BE AT NCA?
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
NORTHSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
634 HUDSON AVENUE
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14621
PHONE: (585) 266-3140
FAX: (585) 266-3114