School of Tomorrow, Philippines

HISTORY
In the 1960's, the fact that many students were not performing at their grade levels compelled many to question the very structure of the conventional educational system. To address these concerns, Accelerated Christian Education designed a Biblically based educational program geared to meet the learning needs of individual children. Since 1970 A.C.E. has published Biblical self-instructional curriculum and provided training in its implementation of individualized education for Levels K-12. Today a worldwide team of more than 750 staff members provide training services, curriculum, and materials for an international network of more than 6,000 schools in 142 countries and hundreds of thousands of home educators.

In 1974, Dr. Donald Howard and Dr. Robert A. Woosley visited the Philippines, making a courtesy visit to Dr. Juan Manuel – the then head of the Ministry of Education. A meeting was also held at the Kowloon House Restaurant attended by interested pastors and educators. Accelerated Christian Education began to develop the potential of the Philippines as a user of its unique system of education.

In June 1978, after the first training session, the first Educators’ Convention was conducted and 8 schools opened with used PACEs sent from schools in the USA.

Today, there are over 500 schools nationwide and more than 1000 home school families worldwide under the School of Tomorrow (ACE) system in the Philippines. With schools along the sea coasts to high in the mountains, the system meets the needs of both poor rural children and wealthy urban children. The greatest concentration of schools is in the Metro Manila area with 96 schools.

Each of these schools is committed to train up students in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, working hand in hand with parents and church ministries.

WHAT IS SCHOOL OF TOMORROW®?
School of Tomorrow® has been a world-class trend-setter in Christian education for more than three decades. School of Tomorrow has offered professional expertise in curriculum, hardware, software, and in-service training for global Biblical educational reform.

The character-building effect of this extraordinary educational strategy, with its values-based, individualized, academic excellence, presents the answer to the global crisis in education. Utilizing this concept of individualized learning, students don't just get by-they get ahead!

Leadership training for educators in the distinctives of the School of Tomorrow curriculum and program is provided. In addition, educators are updated annually through seminars and conventions. The training focuses on wisdom, the chief distinctive of the curriculum. A worldwide ministry representative team of professional educators currently services over 7,300 schools and thousands of home educators in 131 countries.

School of Tomorrow is a primary and secondary academic program that combines the traditional one-room school with completely individualized, diagnostically-prescribed high tech learning. S.O.T. gives you the most advanced twenty-first century educational system available.

DISTINCTIVES OF THE SOT SYSTEM
1. Bible-Based Instruction
2. Academic Excellence
3. Individualized Instruction
4. Mastery-Based Learning
5. Diagnostic Testing
6. Values Formation
7. Computer Enhanced Learning
8. Reasoning Skills
9. Character Building
10. Development of critical thinking skills


WHAT IS A PACE?
School of Tomorrow® has taken the conventional textbook and divided it into bite-sized, achievable, worktexts called PACEs (Packets of Accelerated Christian Education). Each PACE is more or less equivalent to a unit in a textbook. Each level consists of 12 PACEs per subject.

PACEs integrate character building lessons into the academic content and are carefully designed to develop thinking skills and provide for mastery learning.

Full color explanations and illustrations add excitement to each lesson, and innovative learning activities reinforce the interesting text material.

Each PACE contains Checkups which are mini-tests covering a section of the PACE.

If mastery in an area is not achieved, the Checkup will reveal that weak area. Students can then take time to review and learn those concepts.

Upon completion of the activities and Checkups, students prepare to take the Self Test, a practice test. Here students evaluate themselves to determine readiness for the PACE Test. When the Self Test is successfully completed, the student hands in the PACE and takes the PACE test the next school morning.

The PACE Test objectively measures a student's mastery of the material.

Since 1970, PACEs have proven to be effective tools for goal setting and achieving academic excellence.