This session will present practical ways that schools can and should support students with learning differences. Principles for considering what, how, when and why to intervene and support students will be shared as we present problems and… Continue Reading
One might argue that pre-grammar students learn better at home with their families than they do in a classroom setting. Free time, reading quality literature, classical music, cooking and learning about God can provide the foundation for a… Continue Reading
It is all too easy to regard laboratory experiments as activities to hustle through and be done with so we can get back to the regular lessons. But if our classes are to serve our students the way they should, we should consider treating… Continue Reading
Is it enough to hope that we have formed students well enough for them to engage with technology responsibly? If the goal of rhetoric is to cultivate the good man speaking well, we must consider that there is a lot to say in the world of… Continue Reading
Jonathan Edwards, the great pastor and theologian, was also a master teacher. Far from the rote-only education he received, he recognized that children needed to fully grasp what they were learning, and employed various methods to ensure… Continue Reading
We have heard of the liberal arts – but can we name them? We live in a fuzzy moment in which even college professors at “liberal arts” colleges often cannot name the seven liberal arts, nor tell us precisely why they are called “liberal”… Continue Reading
Many discussions of mathematics from a classical Christian perspective focus on presenting math as true, good and beautiful. While this is an integral conversation to bring into the classroom, it’s an incomplete picture. Students would… Continue Reading
In their book Mission Drift, Peter Greer and Chris Horst make the following observations: 1) mission-true culture doesn’t just happen; 2) thoughtful leaders intentionally craft the culture of their organizations and know it is too… Continue Reading
If you teach rhetoric, you should teach stasis theory. In the classical tradition, teachers recognized that any fruitful disagreement begins by identifying the true controversy at hand. e ancient Athenian could end up dead or property-less… Continue Reading
the-art-of-latin 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. The 12th and 13th centuries have been hailed as the Aetas Ovidiana for the great extent to which Ovid in uenced the literature and art. e 8th and 9th… Continue Reading
What is education? Fundamentally it is not the transference of knowledge, the development of skill sets or preparation for the next stage of schooling. Education is the formation of loves. Its primary task is to cultivate an ordo amoris… Continue Reading
Although his work was done in the ancient, “pre-scientific” era, teachers today have much to learn from the natural science of Theophrastus, who learned from Plato and Aristotle and produced 227 works ranging from science, mathematics… Continue Reading
