To build up the self-esteem of every child, the school employs heavily the Mastery Learning Approach with student-centered learning. Mastery learning may imply that a particular student has mastered at least 80% of the course or subject standards or strands. This calls for a tall and demanding order from the teachers in the sense that they have to be more focused. In the language of experts, we say that teachers may few well-selected materials but the students will learn more.

Aside from our regular internal assessments, the school has been using two external assessment tools such as the IOWA and the MAC II tests to monitor and track the student academic performance. MAC II is for the English tracking while the IOWA is for the core subjects. Through these assessments, the students learning gaps or academic weaknesses will be identified. Once the student learning gaps will be identified, the school staff will then develop remedial interventions to close the gaps.

 e-Learning Modality 

Being the 1st e-learning international school in Thailand, California Prep is on the road to speed up its full e-Learning venture with its netbooks/computers, e-Textbooks, e-Resources, intranet, interactive whiteboards, iPad, and a state of the art computer curriculum.  The advantages of the e-Learning modality are multifarious. Some of which are as follows: speeds up learning; allows the students to grow with their own pace; supports visual & audio learning; develops creativity via podcast & video-cast; and a native speaker once the audio icon is clicked for accent neutralization and proper pronunciation of the words.

Learning English language pretty well may mean at least 5 years of solid English immersion. Even so-called native speakers struggle with their English grades. To increase the students' English proficiency level is a felt need. Undeniably, this is one of the most challenging academic mountains to surmount. The medium of instruction in an international school is English. Hence, there is no other option as far as the "classroom language" is concerned but English-English-English. Academic survival implies a solid grasp of the English language.

Studies in prestigious universities around the world have consistently supported that children with good self-control and/or self-discipline tend to have far greater chances of success and better lives than those who lack self-control or miserably dysfunctional. Moreover, those kids with right values appear to be better prepared to tackle life's realities. Right values are viewed from perspective of multiculturalism where we learn to accept, respect, and tolerate any human being regardless of color, religious affiliation, status, and etc.

Our school intends to promote cultural values of various countries from time to time such as that of the host country like its cultural celebrations and the Thai "wai". However, the school does not regret in divulging its bias such as: Strictly NO to drugs, alcohol, and smoking. Thus, students and teachers who can't comply with this entry discipline have no place in the system.