Your Child's Legacy: Exceptional Classroom Instruction

What will your child's legacy be? At Legacy Christian Academy, it's the promise of exceptional classroom instruction and an unparalleled educational experience that will last a lifetime - and beyond.

Teaching Staff

The key to a quality program is a skilled, creative, resourceful and perceptive staff. The teachers at Legacy are highly trained, carefully selected and committed to Christ. They possess the experience and professional credentials to provide the best academic program for students. Our small classroom size and excellent teacher/student ratios allow teachers to establish supportive relationships with all students.

All teachers participate in a series of training workshops. These workshops include:

• How to Conduct Parent-Teacher Conferences
• Discipline Techniques in the Classroom
• Positive Reinforcement
• How to Bring Character Into the Classroom
• Parent Communication
• Additional classroom training regarding effective teaching techniques in math, science, and other disciplines.

Assistant Teachers

Each classroom at Legacy not only has a high qualified teacher, but also a trained assistant teacher. The role of the assistant in the classroom is primarily instructional, not clerical. Assistant teachers work with small groups to reinforce skills introduced by the teacher. The teacher-to-student ratio in the classroom is 1 to 13 or better.

Small Groups

Legacy emphasizes the acquisition of basic skills within small instructional groups. Students are placed in reading and math groups based on their ability and instructional levels. They participate in teacher-directed lessons, follow-up assignments and a variety of application activities. Spelling, phonics and language skills are reinforced in small groups with the assistant teacher.

Enriched Curriculum

In each Legacy classroom, teachers seek to challenge student with an enriched curriculum. All teachers are trained to provide depth and complexity to instruction and assignments so students benefit from learning at levels appropriate to their abilities. Many students participate in independent work projects that build deeper comprehension and assist them in becoming "experts" on particular topics. Teachers regularly pre-test students to ensure relevant instruction and enriched learning experiences that build upon students' prior knowledge.

Carden Method

Legacy Christian Academy utilizes the Carden Method in the primary grades. This is a phonetic approach to teaching reading, language and spelling. This method also places a strong emphasis on comprehension and literature. The Carden Method is an advanced educational approach to language arts with a proven success record, created by esteemed educator Mae Carden.