A Different Approach at Delphi Academy

Parents have all watched with wonder as their young children have enthusiastically jumped into learning new things and gaining new abilities, often faster than they can keep track of. This is a natural state for children and they generally enter school in that state of mind.

The challenge for a school is to keep that fire alive, burning even brighter as the years go by and the child evolves into a mature student. Too often something quite different happens and that fire dims, sometimes burning out altogether.

Many parents watch this happen with their children and wonder why. It is not a mystery. If a school, a teacher, a parent, a child does not have the real know-how about how a person learns for himself, for use in his life, all the many little obstacles encountered in study throughout years of schooling pile up into at the very least a dimmed learning attitude, but more often a major learning block.

Delphi Academy takes a different approach to learning with the know-how of the Study Technology (Study Tech), an educational philosophy and a practical approach to teaching and learning based on research and developments by American writer and educator L. Ron Hubbard.

A Study Tech Environment

In a Study Tech environment, young students have a teacher knowledgeable about the barriers to learning and how to overcome them; they have a teacher who helps them know why they are studying something, and then helps them learn it for themselves, all the while feeding their natural interest in learning.

As a student advances up the Delphi academic levels, this benefit adds an element—the student learns about Study Technology from his side of the learning equation. He learns how to spot and then remove learning obstacles. He learns how he can quickly get something he wants to know and be able to use it for himself.

Delphi Forms versus "Grades"

A "grades" structure advances students based on age or number of months spent at one level, not necessarily on whether the student has mastered the material or abilities for that grade. Delphi takes a different approach and ensures that each level of one's education involves acquisition and demonstration of particular abilities and knowledge. We refer to each level as a Form, and the abilities and knowledge the student acquires at each Form are mapped out in explicit graduation requirements.

Forms provide specific goals and give students an individualized road. Delphi students have their own programs which guide them through each Form. Students can enroll in a Form at any time during the school year.

Individualized Programs

Because students don't all start at Delphi on the same footing, each arriving student is given diagnostic testing and interviews. From that information, a program is designed based on that student’s interests, strengths and weaknesses.

Some students arrive at the school with one or more "holes" in their existing education and part of the initial task is to identify and repair these holes before they become any more of a problem. The student can then embark on a full academic program without those past problems holding him or her back.

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