Course Summary

Welcome to the Getting Started course. The goal of this course is to give you the tools you need to get up and running at King's Way Classical Academy. You may need some guidance on where to start. Maybe you don't know which courses match up best with each grade level. In this section you will discover how to begin taking courses, and learn which courses are best for you. You can also consult the Scope and Sequence section to see where each course fits best in the overall scheme of courses at King's Way Classical Academy.

Courses are available at the Basic ($25), Intermediate ($110), or Premier ($230) levels. At the Basic level students have access to their student advisor via the forum board and telephone. At the Intermediate and Premier levels they have access to their instructor via the forum board and in some cases the Web-4m Conferencing system.

The Basic "grammar", or introductory course, in every subject sequence is offered at a nominal $25 tuition fee. These courses constitute approximately 40% of the entire curriculum. They are self-paced and self-taught with immediate reinforcement via computer exercises. Computer administered quizzes are graded automatically and become part of the student's permanent transcript. Thus, it is possible for every student to obtain the rudiments of a classical education at nominal cost.

Any of these courses may be upgraded to the Intermediate level for $110 to include a King's Way instructor, usually meeting asynchronously on a forum board. On the other hand, some courses meet synchronously on the Web-4m Conferencing System, twice a week for $230.

Each Basic "grammar" course is prerequisite to one or more upper level dialectic or rhetoric courses in each subject sequence. These involve an instructor and participation in a classroom setting -- either synchronous (Web-4m conference system) or asynchronous (Forum) at the instructor's discretion. Coming in Winter 2008, students may elect to take these courses in a "home-taught" format for $49 tuition. This "home-taught" format will include archiving of grades toward graduation and on-going counseling and consultative services.

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This section will show you how the courses at King's Way Classical Academy line up with each other over the course of the 6-year program. This is a suggested guide; you have complete flexibility to plan your own curriculum and tailor it to your unique situation.

The Scope & Sequence is laid out for two terms a year for six years (including jr high) similar to a school set up with two semesters.

Here are the start dates for the two terms, each of which runs for 18 weeks with a two week break between. Classes will start on, or about, these dates each year.

Fall Term: September 2
Winter Term: January 2

This section outlines the schedule for all live classes for the upcoming Term beginning September 2, 2008. Use this schedule to help plan out which courses you should take, or consult it to see when live sessions for your courses meet. Note all time references on the schedule are in Eastern Standard Time.

Due to the way the Moodle Learning Management System is structured, parents will need to create an individual registration account for each child. Once the account is in place, you must enroll and pay for each course individually either from the Course Description area or in your "My Account" module. You may pay by check or by PayPal.

Synchronous courses may be delayed to a later term or declared to be asynchronous or 'home-taught' only, if there are not sufficient students enrolled to warrant a class meeting. Four or five students is generally considered the minimum."

At King's Way, each student is accredited by an independent Review Board, similar to the review committee in a graduate program. The individual course of study and student character is documented and approved -- or accredited -- by Parent, Pastor, and Professional (cf. http://www.biblicalconcourse.com). The conclusions of the review committee may be notarized at the discretion of the committee.

This is the philosophy of educational accountability being pioneered by Dr. James Bartlett's "Biblical Concourse of Home Universities". It returns educational accountability to the local level, where aberrations in doctrine and practice are more easily detected and corrected. Moreover, the individualized approach makes more sense than the "cookie-cutter" accreditation of an entire institution.

The latter approach stifles creativity, excludes innovation in education, and forces students into a mold. Long-term it encourages devolution of doctrine toward a lowest-common-denominator. This apparently because the university has become divorced from the authority of parent and church via the "doctrine" of "academic freedom." This is seen in the apostate condition of most American universities today. See the essay on "The Snare of College Accreditation" elsewhere in this section. King's Way awards a diploma for successful completion of the program and accreditation of the student.