Options For Home Schooled Students

Options For Home School Students

Welcome to our newest program at the Academy: home school options in both art and music.

For each, we have developed a 36 week curriculum designed specifically with home school families in mind. Often parents who competently home school core curriculum feel at a loss when teaching the arts. It can be very challenging to teach a subject that you feel is so entirely outside of your own experience. You can be certain that students attending the Westland Academy are receiving the very highest standard of arts education. Our curriculum uses inventive lesson plans and creative teaching strategies while adhering to both the National Visual Arts Standards and the National Standards for Music Education.

Scheduling and Pricing:

To ensure that each student is receiving the most appropriate and personalized education possible and that class sizes remain small, class levels are broken into three grades:

K - 3rd grade
4th - 7th grade
8th -12th grade

Classes are scheduled either once or twice each week, depending on the home school group's desires and goals. Every attempt will be made to schedule your class at the most convenient time. The school year is planned at 36 weeks.

Weekly sessions are scheduled for 75 minutes and are $12.00 per session.
Total of $432.00/school year ($48.00/month) for the first child.
(additional siblings are priced at $388.80 each or $43.20/month)

Twice weekly sessions are scheduled for 45 minutes each and are $7.00 per session.
Total of $504.00/school year ($56/month) for the first child.
(additional siblings are priced at $453.60 each or $50.40/month)

$36.00 yearly materials fee ($3.00/month) is additional.
A 10% discount is offered on additional students in the same family

Tuition may be made in nine convenient monthly payments. Breakdown prices are cited above.

Minimum of four students per class; maximum of ten.


	Philosophy of Art Education		Philosophy of Music Education
	Our instruction course is designed to encourage self-discovery and self-expression while learning to create fine art. An art education setting provides an ideal environment for exploration to these ends, one in which students can work toward defining themselves and identifying the core of their artistic strengths. These vital elements are important in addition to the empirical knowledge that students will gain while attending this course. The emphasis is not on the finished product, but rather on self-progression and the application of theory.		Our instruction course is designed to encourage self-expression while learning to create music and to demonstrate the intrinsic value of music. Music education provides an ideal environment for exploration to these ends, one in which students learn to analyze situations creatively, to express themselves non-verbally, and to understand the common human experience, past and present. These essential components of music are presented in addition to the empirical knowledge that students will learn while studying at the Academy. Again, the emphasis is not on a finished product, but rather on understanding, utilizing and appreciating music.
	Course Highlights:		Course Highlights:
	Students explore materials usage, experiment with a vast array of media, and learn fundamental elements of art and principles of design. Journal entries add an element of criticism and aesthetics to students' study through self-evaluation, analysis of media, and philosophic examination. Students are encouraged to enter their work competitively and to display their art on our new, on-line student gallery as well as at the Academy. Students learn about art history through verbal and written analyses of masterworks as well as artists' examples. Periodic exhibition and group critique adds closure and review to main ideas		At all grade levels, students sing and/or perform using a variety of both traditional and creative instrumentation. Students work toward musical fluency by improvising melodies, composing and arranging music, and reading and notating music. Studying music history provides students a window onto the people, time, and place of that period. Journal entries add an element of criticism and aesthetics to students' study through self-evaluation, analyses of music, and philosophic examination. Interdisciplinary studies enable students to recognize the relationship between music and other disciplines.

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