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.
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).
Abeka uses cross-subject integration—pulling in concepts from one subject into several others to reinforce understanding and tie learning together.
It is our goal at WSRBA that through the use of the Abeka curriculum our students will:
- 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!