{"id":495,"date":"2019-01-15T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2019-01-15T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:00:50","slug":"understanding-ace-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/?page_id=495","title":{"rendered":"Understanding ACE Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the Accelerated Christian Education Curriculum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Management<\/li>\n<li>Individualized<\/li>\n<li>Motivation<\/li>\n<li>Goal Oriented<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Produce a GEM by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teacher (Supervisor) \u2013 Guiding<\/li>\n<li>Parents \u2013 Encouraging<\/li>\n<li>Students \u2013 Motivated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Long-Term Goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn to do their best for the glory of God<\/li>\n<li>Learn strengths, gifts, and loves to direct for future<\/li>\n<li>Complete academic grade level \u2013 tested to determine what level each individual is on<\/li>\n<li>Learn material<\/li>\n<li>Improve grade-point average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mid-Term Goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete one Pace in every subject every three weeks**<\/li>\n<li>Complete three Paces per subject every quarter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Short-Term Goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete two Paces per week<\/li>\n<li>Complete at least 20 pagers per day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>**A PACE is equivalent to a chapter in a textbook\/workbook.<\/p>\n<p>In a traditional school, students spend about an hour in class per subject, and then receive homework to do on their own.<\/p>\n<p>At Granite City Baptist Academy, in addition to the basic subjects, students have music, speech, preacher boys, and composition class which may require some outside work. We also have a speed-reading program in which students must read and pass a comprehension test on one story per week.<\/p>\n<p>In the Accelerated Christian Education system, each student is tested to be sure they are on the grade level where they can comprehend and grow in knowledge. A grade level is 12 Paces (Packet of Accelerated Christian Education which is equivalent to a chapter in a textbook\/workbook). There are 6 basic subjects \u2013 Math, English, Social Studies (history), Science, Word Building (vocabulary and spelling), and Literature. The number of pages per Pace increases and the grade level increases. As a student progresses through high-school, a core subject may be replaced with an elective. To complete a grade level in one school year, a student must complete 2 Paces per week, which equals 1 Pace per subject every three weeks. If a student does this, he\/she will complete a grade level or 12 Paces in each subject each school year.<\/p>\n<p>To further help in short term goal setting it is recommended that a student always have a math pace and do 3-5 pages daily in that Pace. This will ensure they learn the material and get it completed within 3 weeks. It is also helpful to determine the number of pages in the Pace that needs to be completed that week and divide by the number of days a student has to complete it. The student then sets his daily goal using that number of pages in that subject. When a student turns in a Pace, they will take a test the next day. Paces cannot be turned in on Friday to prevent having to test after a weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Let us consider what we can do to help produce a GEM for God\u2019s glory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the Accelerated Christian Education Curriculum: Management Individualized Motivation Goal Oriented Produce a GEM by: Teacher (Supervisor) \u2013 Guiding Parents \u2013 Encouraging Students \u2013 Motivated Long-Term Goals: Learn to do their best for the glory of God Learn strengths, gifts, and loves to direct for future Complete academic grade level \u2013 tested to determine what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-495","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitybaptist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}