Instructional Methods
Teaching Staff
The key to a quality program is a vibrant, creative, resourceful, and perceptive staff. The teachers at Legacy are highly trained and carefully selected. They posses the experience and professional credentials to provide the best academic program for our students. Our small classroom size and excellent ratios allow the teacher to establish supportive relationships with each student. All teachers attend a week long training course in the Carden Method and participate in a series of training workshops taught by Legacy's founders, Tim and Donna Borruel.
Teacher Assistants
The classrooms at Legacy not only have qualified teachers, but also their own full-time teacher assistant. The role of the assistant in the classroom is primarily instructional, not clerical. Teacher assistants work with small groups to reinforce the basic skills introduced by the teacher. The overall teacher to student ratio in the classroom is 1 to 13 or better.
Small Groups
Legacy provides a strong emphasis on the appropriation of basic skills within small instructional groups. Students are placed in reading and math groups based on their instructional levels and engage in teacher-directed lessons, follow-up assignments, and a variety of application activities in which the skills they are learning are utilized. Spelling, phonics, and language skills are reinforced in small groups with the assistant teacher.
Enrichment Program
Each Legacy classroom will seek to challenge the students who consistently perform above grade level in the areas of reading and math. This enrichment will take place in small groups and will expose these students to accelerated concepts and skills.
