HIGH SCHOOL
ACADEMIC STUDIES

Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom

  The faculty of Highlands Christian Academy, want the students to be successful. But, more than this, through the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum the students receive training so they have the opportunity to be productive.  Through the curriculum students are equipped so they will know how to think, act, and live.  This curriculum is structured to include all three levels of the learning process: knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.

Highlands Christian Academy’s use of the A.C.E. curriculum will provide the student with an individualized program that introduces concrete and abstract reasoning skills.  Writers and editors have carefully developed a scope and sequence with vocabulary that moves from simple to complex and from concrete to abstract, as students progress in their education.

Before adolescence, children focus on each new concept from a mastery viewpoint— line upon line, precept upon precept; focus is on the: who, what, where, and when of information.  Educators refer to this information as the knowledge dimension. However, there is development from this stage of learning to cognitive learning.

With adolescence, students concentrate on concepts that expand to the abstract or cognitive level; focus is on why and how.  This is referred to as the understanding dimension of life.  Students learn not only facts (knowledge) but also how those facts relate to culture, science, and history (understanding).

A major distinctive of the A.C.E. curriculum is its focus on wisdom.  Most curriculums will focus on knowledge (facts and information), some include understanding (relationship of information), Accelerated Christian Education curriculum is distinctive in its inclusion of wisdom as a deliberate aspect of the learning process.

Distinctive of Highlands Christian Academy and the Accelerated Christian Education program

ACADEMIC INFORMATION

Grading Scale

Graduation Requirements
Each college bound student must have a minimum of 28 credits in certain courses in order to graduate.  All students in grades 9-12 are required to carry at least five (5) academic subjects with a value of 5 credit hours during each of the four years of high school unless special permission is given to carry less.  Each student will also carry one (1) credit per year in Bible.  Cumulatively, a four-year student will graduate with 28 credits.

Credit Requirements (28 total):

* Grade Point Average Requirement:  2.00 on a 4.00 scale on all required courses (24 minimum for graduation).

**These are the HCA minimum requirements.  It is important to know the prerequisites of the college you plan to attend.