Education Model
University Model Schooling (UMS)
LCA uses the University-Model Schooling system. This is a proven educational model that integrates the parents (mentoring their students) in partnership with highly qualified professional instructors to gain better academic and spiritual development of the student. It integrates the home and school in the common goal of producing godly men and women who will become difference makers in the Kingdom of God.
Three Main Components of the UMS
  • A Biblical foundation with an emphasis on discipleship
  • A General Structure which seeks a high level of integration between home and school in the educational endeavor
  • A striving for academic excellence
A Fully Developed UMS Program
The program consists of three parts: an Academic Program, a Character Development Program, and a Students Activities Program.
Academic Program
The academic program oversees the entire system of courses and standards in many ways patterned by a typical university.
  • College Simulated Schedule:
    • Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule
    • 17 week semesters
    • Single subject, single grade level format
    • Semester by semester registration
  • Integrated (parent-professional) instruction model
  • High academic standards emphasizing a strong student work ethic
  • Low student teacher ratio
  • Standards that meet or exceed the local or state laws that govern education
Character Development Program
The character program oversees the systems to keep parent confident, competent, encouraged, and involved with their children. It also reinforces Christian values taught at home and enforces the behavior and discipline values of the school.
Student Activities Program
The student activities program oversees the development of students through activities built around their special interests, talents, and abilities. Through these activities students experience the dynamics of teamwork, satisfaction of sacrificial effort, and bonds of friendship forged our of difficult tasks accomplished together.
Benefits of UMS
  • Control over schedule/time
  • Teaches time management
  • Teaches work ethic
  • More time with family
  • Time to teach the love of learning
  • Prepares child for college
  • Parents are responsible for child's educational choices and spiritual upbringing
The Parent's Role
  • Personal committment with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
  • Active in a local church
  • Committed to Biblical principles of discipleship and wisdom
  • Agree with the doctrinal and philosophical statements of school
  • Willing to partner with professional teachers and actively mentor their children
  • Accept primary responsibility for the behavior and character development of their children.
  • Insure the proper supervision of their children while in their satalite classroom at home.
The Student's Role
  • Committed to learning, to self-discipline, and to appropriate behavior
  • Willing to submit to their parents and to the authority figures that their parents have placed over them
  • Willing to accept their responsibility of learning
LCA and UMS
Lucas Christian Academy is a Certified University-Model School (UMS). For further information on the University-Model School Program, please visit the National Organization of University-Model Schools (NAUMS) website www.naums.net