Abeka is a comprehensive, quality curriculum with materials written from a Christian perspective. Abeka’s Spiral Learning approach begins with the basics, progressing to deeper understanding at age-appropriate times. There is a continual emphasis on review for mastery, reinforcing specific concepts, then advancing to higher complexity. Every year and across subjects, concepts are reintroduced and applied in new ways. So each time a child revisits the material, what they’ve learned is reinforced. This means children have multiple opportunities for mastering what they’ve learned. 

• Spiral learning helps to prevent learning gaps from the first day until the last.
• Since repetition is the key to learning, concepts are truly learned—and remembered.
• Because concepts aren’t presented just one time, or in one way, it means you’re giving your students multiple opportunities to be successful.
• Rough days are less stressful when you realize you don’t have just ONE CHANCE to make sure your entire class understands a concept.

Abeka uses an approach that reaches all three major learning styles. Instead of favoring one, they work to incorporate all three— auditory, visual, and kinesthetic (hearing, seeing, and doing). 

• By using all 3, you’re teaching your students to be adaptable, resilient learners.
• You’re preparing them for college and real life.

Abeka uses cross-subject integration—pulling in concepts from one subject into several others to reinforce understanding and tie learning together.

• Learning comes to life more with cross-subject integration (like when students learn about Abraham Lincoln in history, read about him in language arts, do a project with pennies and top hats in art, and write a story using what they know).
• Students feel a sense of familiarity and accomplishment when they see something they’ve already learned (like spelling words) “pop up” in another subject (like science or literature). They’re set up to succeed.
• It engages curiosity and emphasizes the big picture.

It is our goal at WSRBA that through the use of the Abeka curriculum our students will:

• Remember More
  • Cramming for a test doesn’t allow a student to solidify the lesson they’ve just learned. 
  • The Spiral Learning teaching method proves that repetition leads to retention.
• Advance Quickly
  • Because the curriculum builds on itself, your student will already have a strong foundation when presented with a more complex idea.
• Be More Confident
  • A key benefit to Spiral Learning is that you and your student will both have more than one opportunity to master a concept. This promotes confidence for you both!