Abeka’s spiral approach—building from the simple to the complex, with frequent review and application within each grade and from grade to grade. 

• This means you prevent learning gaps from the first day you teach with Abeka until the last.

• The work you put in now pays off later. 

• 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. 

Learning preferences—when faced with the 3 major learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic, or hearing, seeing, and doing), learning preferences are how you prefer, if given a choice, to learn something. Instead of favoring 1 and neglecting the others, we incorporate all 3.

• By using all 3, you’re teaching your students to be adaptable, resilient learners.

• You’re preparing them for college and real life. 

• You’re doing what the best teachers do to help their students learn.

Cross-subject integration—pulling in concepts from 1 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.