We believe a critical part of our success at TLE Academy is helping the students to understand who they are, what they believe in and we give them an environment in which they safely can grow into who they want to be, where they want to go.  These discussions are an integrated part of the learning environment that forces them to reflect.

1.  Bible - Character - Leadership

     In all these classes we use the bible as a base to discuss the questions how to be behave and why and relate them to their own experience

2.  Who is in control of you mind

     Here we teach what brain research has found, especially Dr Caroline Leaf who wrote the book, Who Switch Off My Brain, in which she claims that research has found some 80% of all illnesses are caused by our thought life.  We have integrated her findings and discussions in our talking about why we do certain things, we conceptualize the issues and have students reflect on them.

3.  Praying and asking for forgiveness

     When a student is sent out because of undue disruption in class or when there is a need for conflict resolution between two students, Mr. John first ask each of them to share what has happened.  If a student does not know, the teacher or witness is asked to come in and explain. The next point of discussion is to have the student(s) explain why he or she behaved a certain way and why the teacher felt it was a disruption.  The discussion ends with Mr. John asking to pray for them. The student is then sent away after promises to ask the student/teacher for forgiveness.   If the student refuses to accept responsibility for the behavior, they are left reading a self-help book and will be after some time visited by Ms. Ellen who will go through the same process. 

4.  DISC - LEARNING STYLES

     We try to refuse students perception of a student being a certain way, to a student behaving like others with a certain learning style.  We talk in terms of a typical D personality that is driven, task oriented, bottom line focused and less looking at details.  We have found that this technique defuses the issue and gets students to look at themselves and their style and how it relates to others.

5.  Teaching focused on Principles

     In economics, government and history, the emphasis is on principles. We go deeper into understanding what the underlying assumptions are in order to try to understand why certain actions were taken/said and not focusing on opinions.  The benefit of not focusing on opinions is that we will have to discuss the questions of why, which forces the students to reflect.