Principle-Based Learning
The Noah Plan—A Principle Approach Curriculum
“The Foundation for American Christian Education presents the evidence of America's Christian history as a blueprint for restoring to America its literacy, free-enterprise economy, honesty, morality, and conservative Christian mind-set and values. Using The Noah Plan® curriculum, the Foundation believes that education will enable succeeding generations to reclaim the character and Biblical principles needed to become leaders in the cause to sustain our constitutional republic and liberty with law. The Noah Plan is the educator's tool to inculcate, instruct, and impress upon the minds of students principles that will prosper a great and free United States of America, and enable the Gospel to reach the ends of the earth.” (FACE) At American Legacy Academy we know that this is an inspired curriculum. We have seen it change lives!
Restoring Christian Principles to the Classroom
“Education that teaches the Truth of the Word of God produces true liberty as it is applied in all life and learning. Truth is the source of the principles. The Noah Plan curriculum, designed to educate the whole person on Christian principles, identifies (Scriptural) principles in every subject. Through implementing the Principle Approach methodology, The Noah Plan will restore Christian principles to the classroom.” (FACE)
The Noah Plan is a Solution
“The education of one generation will be the philosophy of the next.’ Abraham Lincoln states here that the source of any government is an educational doctrine. Our nation is now reaping what was sown through its system of education. The extraction of the Word of God from the classroom and from public policy established ideals contrary to the principles upon which our nation was founded–resulting in the rejection of absolute truths. Now, our American government is intentionally and purposefully building an amoral, anti-Christian society, which darkens and threatens us today. Its programs undermine families, waste the potential of our children, destroy our unborn, eradicate character and productivity, and scorn God. The education of the day has made us number one among our peer nations in violent crime, divorce, illegal drug use, teenage pregnancy, and illiteracy. Our hope is in the next generation. It is imperative that we educate our children in Biblical principles and teach them to reason. The Noah Plan is the Principle Approach curriculum teaching the philosophy of life and the principles that make a reasoning, Christian citizen, who bases decisions on a (Scriptural) worldview.”
Why the Principal Approach
American Legacy Academy uses the Principle approach in teaching all subjects. This approach was developed by the Foundation for American Christian Education. (FACE) Our three goals for the principle approach are:
1. Instruct each individual child in the principles of character and scholarship as we aide him in his quest to reach the fullest expression of his divine potential.
2. Instill a Christ-centered worldview, and
3. Promote Christian scholarship and character for leadership and servant-hood.
The Principle Approach has been called "reflective teaching and learning." It is America's historic method of Biblical reasoning which places the Truths (or principles) of God's Word at the heart of education. Each subject is predicated upon God's Biblical principles and students are taught to think and reason from principles and leading ideas using The Notebook Approach to Research, Reason, Relate, and Record.
What Distinguishes a Principle Approach School from Any Other?
• Acknowledging America's Christian history and Biblical form of government.
• Teaching and learning America's Christian history in every subject through its Biblical principles of government and education.
• Practicing The Principle Approach as a way of life --- of Biblical living --- in scholarship, character formation, and the art of self-government.
• Training teachers whose lives and scholarship become a living textbook to their students, cultivating a love of learning, and inspiring leadership and service.
• A curriculum of distinct subjects in classical learning unified by Biblical principles and a Providential history framework with a tutorial emphasis.
• Students nurtured in God's Word and the Christian idea of the child.
• Families forming a community of learning in bringing their children to the fullest expression of their value in Christ.