Choosing a School
The Piedmont Triad area offers many non-public school options. When researching your choices, you might want to familiarize yourself with the following terms:
Select the "Show/Hide" links to view the meaning of the terms below.
Boarding School Show/Hide
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' in this sense means to provide food and lodging. Boarding schools generally comprise grades seven through twelve, with most covering the High School years. Most boarding schools also have day students who are residents of the community or children of faculty.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_school)
Catholic School Show/Hide
Catholic schools are education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church. These schools aim to develop their students through participation in the sacramental life of the Church, study of religion and theology, a full curriculum in secular subjects, and a variety of extracurricular activities. Religion is included in the learning experience, and school uniforms are often a requirement for students. While it is common for Catholic schools to require non-Catholic students to take Catholic religion classes and attend the various religious exercises of the school (except in Muslim nations where this is prohibited by law), a requirement that the student must be Catholic to attend a Catholic school is rare.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_school)
Christian Show/Hide
The goal of a Christian education is to teach students that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” encouraging them to develop genuine and meaningful relationships with God through the person of Jesus Christ and teaching them to think about all of life, including every academic subject, within the framework of a Biblical worldview.
Classical Show/Hide
Based on the centuries-old model of education called the Trivium, a classical education challenges students to discover, to contemplate, to reason, to defend, and to interact with the culture in which they have been placed. The study of Latin lays an important foundation for the proper understanding of English as well as the learning of other languages. The study of formal logic in the Dialectic school equips students to be detectors of fallacies and other common errors. Public speaking and debate are taught as core courses in the Rhetoric school, equipping students to be engaging and effective communicators.
Friends School Show/Hide
The Friends Council on Education, founded by a group of volunteer Quaker educators in 1931, promotes the theory and practice of Quaker education, supports Friends schools (PreK-12) in maintaining their values-based learning environments, and provides a professional development network for educational issues, philosophy and practice in Friends schools.
(http://friendscouncil.org/)
Independent School Show/Hide
Independent schools are nonprofit schools with carefully defined missions, governed by boards of trustees, and supported by tuition payments, charitable contributions and endowment revenue. Independent schools are accountable to regional or national accrediting agencies, holding themselves publicly accountable to all who seek assurance that they meet generally accepted standards of educational excellence, operation and staff competence.
(www.ncais.org)
Jewish School Show/Hide
A Jewish Day School offers a dual curriculum including general studies and Judaic studies, including the study of Torah and Hebrew language.
Military School Show/Hide
Military schools are educational institutions which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the Army, the Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard or provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_academy)
Montessori School Show/Hide
The Montessori method is an educational method for children, based on theories of child development originated by Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870-1952) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is applied primarily in preschool and elementary school settings. The Montessori method is characterized by an emphasis on self-directed activity on the part of the child and clinical observation on the part of the teacher (often called a director, directress, or guide). It stresses the importance of adapting the child's learning environment to his or her developmental level, and of the role of physical activity in absorbing abstract concepts and practical skills. It is also characterized by the use of autodidactic (self-correcting) equipment for introduction and learning of various concepts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori)
Parochial School Show/Hide
A Parochial school is one term used (particularly in the United States) to describe a school that engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. In another, more narrow sense, parochial schools are Christian grammar schools or high schools run by parishes; but this distinction is not universally made.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochial_school)
Single-Gendered School Show/Hide
Single-sex education is the practice of conducting education where male and female students attend separate classes or in separate buildings or schools.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sex_education)
Specialized LD/ADHD School Show/Hide
Specialized Schools are nonprofit, independent schools with carefully defined missions, focused on working with children who have been diagnosed with learning differences and attention deficits disorders. They are governed by boards of trustees, and are supported by tuition payments, charitable contributions and endowment revenue. Specialized LD/ADHD Schools are accountable to regional and national accrediting agencies, holding themselves publicly accountable to all who seek assurance that they meet generally accepted standards of educational excellence, operation and staff competence.
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