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Category Archives: teaching
Ever Feel Like You’re the Least Favorite Teacher In Your Homeschool?
Yeah, it’s saying something when you’re the least-favorite teacher in a one-room-schoolhouse kind of situation. But I’ve felt it. The weirdest part is, I’m used to being popular. I was a favorite camp counselor, a beloved student teacher, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical Conversations, cooperation, homeschool, parent, patience, pleasantness, popularity, tutoring
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Review: Phonics Museum Reading Program
Confession: I looked into the Phonics Museum curriculum, originally, because of its theme. Not because it was classical ( a very specific philosophy of education I did not espouse at the time). Not because it was made by Veritas Press … Continue reading
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Tagged classical, corpus callosum, curriculum, history, phonics, Phonics Museum, primers, reading age, reading instruction, review, veritas press
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Books My Son Likes: Flora and Ulysses
I have a middle-grade son who is not a natural reader. Reading is just is not what he’d choose to spend his time doing. He has many interests that compete with reading, so if I find him reading a book … Continue reading
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Tagged books, boys, Flora and Ulysses, Kate DiCamillo, middle grade, reading, reluctant reader
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Seven Wonders Mystery: Upside-Down Drawing, Week 3, Cycle 1
The biggest impediment to drawing is our assumptions. We often miss the actual shape of a thing because we get stuck or intimidated about what we think it should look like. Why do we have kids draw something upside-down? To help students see … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Classical Conversations, drawing lesson, journeymen, masters, seven wonders, upside-down drawing, week 3, zerus
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King Tut: Mirror Image Drawing Lesson Week 2, Cycle 1
Ah, the second week of Fine Arts in the Classical Conversations program: Mirror Image! In my first year tutoring, this was a least favorite lesson, but now it’s my favorite and perhaps the most crucial of them all. I didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged art lessons, Classical Conversations, cycle 1, drawing, king tut, masters journeymen, mirror image, week 2
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Horse Head Profile: Drawing Lesson 1
For the first drawing lesson, we explore the basic shapes. In Classical Conversations, we spend the first six weeks of the Foundations program learning drawing lesson in the Fine Art segment of the class. My lessons were designed for the Masters class (ages 10-11), but the specific class I had last with cycle one were […]
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Tagged art lessons, Classical Conversations, classical education, drawing, journeymen, masters, OiLs, tutoring, week 1
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Classroom Management and Motivational Techniques
How do you encourage positive classroom engagement and participation–without having to bring in candy and cheap little gadgets from the Dollar Store or throw a pizza party? I’m talking about middle school aged kids (and for those in Classical … Continue reading
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Tagged challenge A, Classical Conversations, classroom management, dialectic, motivation, positive motivation, tutoring
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