It’s all in the philosophy. When we isolate grammar, we pull it from its natural context, its relationship to the words a student writes. By fastening grammar instruction to writing and immediate need, Constance Weaver’s Teaching Grammar… Continue Reading
Throughout the past two years, standards-based grading has become a focus of assessment and learning in my classroom. There is a shift that takes place in mindset which then changes assessment practices in the classroom. As part of this… Continue Reading
Socratic methods aren’t just for high school! In this session, you will learn how to utilize Socratic methods to facilitate rich discussions in your grammar school classroom. Teachers will learn how to implement Socratic-based teaching… Continue Reading
This workshop aims to tackle the biggest challenges that are particular to classical collaborative schools, then consider some ways that collaborative schools have responded. We’ll look at issues such as part-time faculties, parental… Continue Reading
On any given day, a HOS faces countless difficult conversations. Whether with students, parents, faculty, staff, administration, board, etc., at any moment yet another challenge for how to negotiate conversations that can spiral out of… Continue Reading
What is it like to teach Upper School–or Rhetoric School, or High School, or even Logic School–in a collaborative model? Do you have enough time to cover everything? How do you spend the campus days? What sorts of things do the students do… Continue Reading
In this workshop I will present how I strive to help my biology students see reality in terms of Aristotle’s four causes instead of modern sciences reduction of reality to only the material and efficient. Applying four causes to modern… Continue Reading
Classical schools can choose to keep their rhetoric and theology curriculum in separate tracks or to blend them into one. This workshop will present the benefits and ways of weaving these courses together from 9th-11th grade to build both… Continue Reading
A teacher in a CC school is likely to first encounter the Common Topics of Invention while preparing to teach a formal Rhetoric course and using a text like Corbett and Connors or, perhaps, Crider. It is highly unlikely that such a teacher… Continue Reading
After hearing this presentation, a veteran teacher of 30+ years commented that it had a more impact on how she viewed her role as a teacher than anything she had previously heard. This is the power of seeing your students as fellow image… Continue Reading
What constitutes a Classical art education in a Classical Christian school? the skill of representational drawing is just the beginning. The well-educated student is exposed to and is able to manipulate artists’ materials to meet his or… Continue Reading
The majority of classically educated high schoolers have their sights set on a standard four-year college or university. But recent trends have raised the question of what universities are offering and whether it is worth the cost. To… Continue Reading
