By: Madeline Dunham
Accreditations
The program is deductive in nature. Students must deduce answers from the text which stimulates creative thought. This allows the Mission Generation textbooks to be sensitive to culture, geography, and ethnicity, which keeps class discussions fluid, relative and exciting.
Our deductive format has been a key to accreditation, because it is non-discriminatory, unbiased and gives each student equal access to the truth of Jesus Christ. Massive impact comes from the program’s use during regular school hours campus wide. Students are discipled without having to change their routine or stay after school.
The Objective
The school program is focused on three realities. The objective is to help develop these three goals in the lives of the students.
- Spiritual Dependence– (Get a Plan) The program teaches that everyone has a need to go beyond themselves to discover their life’s purpose. There is more to life than themselves. The program instructs that a life plan requires sensitivity to the unseen realm.
- Social Interdependence– (Get a Life) No one is on an island. Everyone needs community to move forward in life effectively. Building healthy relationships of mutual value is the foundation for respect and acceptance. Bullying, prejudice, and other negative behaviors have no place in a successful life.
- Economic Independence– (Get a job or make a job) The program recognizes a child’s fierce desire for independence and guides this inner force in them to obtain economic freedom from family and government.
Advancing Through the Book
Student Textbooks
The curriculum is available in Spanish and English. The curriculum consists of 14 textbooks, Pre K-12th grade with 490 lessons in all. The material is scope and sequence. It is designed to be used for an entire school year. Each textbook is age and grade appropriate and depending on school application can be taught once or twice week on an average of 45-60 minutes.
Additional Support
- A digital teacher training program on how the curriculum is structured and used.
- A digital teacher manual with each lesson plan completely developed step by step, with suggestions, activities, links and additional information.
- A parent conference to present the curriculum to the parents and increase their involvement with the program in developing life skills in their children and enhancing the impact.
- A link where teachers can respond and give their observations and suggestions for improvement of the program.
Presentation
The school program is a Pre-Conversion Discipleship Curriculum that uses the Oxford Method.
The Foundation: 7 Life Principles
The Structure: 5 Key Concepts
The Platform, Principles and Key Concepts Supporting Education
Cost
Student Textbooks
The cost of the program varies depending on the country. In the United States, the price of the program is $25 per student which includes a full colored textbook, a digital teacher guide, and a training. Even at $25 per student, the ministry must subsidize the cost of the program. The reason $25 per student in the United States does not cover all the costs is because the entire program needed to be rewritten, illustrated, designed, edited and proofread for legal considerations.
It is our goal to have enough students in the program; however, to bring the cost down which would allow the program to operate in a sustainable way on a state by state, or country by country basis. Each new startup has unique costs and fees. Donations make it possible to subsidize the program until critical mass is achieved.