Plato: Understanding the Foundations of the Classical Education Tradition
Reading Time: 2 minutes David Diener offers an introduction to Plato’s educational thought
June 17, 2016
The Winsome Instructor Teaching Well
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rob Williams share the necessity for winsome instruction and practical examples of how it might be achieved in the classroom.
Teaching Writing in a Humanities Course
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rick Trumbo discusses practical ideas for instructing students in writing in the context of an interdisciplinary Humanities course.
Structuring Space and Time for Human Flourishing
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sean Riley explores ways of structuring space (primarily classroom architecture) and time (scheduling) to promote the flourishing of faculty and students.
Teaching Information Literacy
Reading Time: < 1 minute Francine Rader discusses teaching our students to locate, evaluate, and effectively use this information in an ethical manner with wisdom, discernment, and savvy.
Modern Pressures, Ancient Practices, Space for Grace-A Chapel Theme for Christians in the Current Cultural Moment
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bryan Verbrugge discusses a theme for chapel in the current cultural moment.
Quo Properamus? How to Use Active Latin in the Classroom
Reading Time: < 1 minute David Noe provides Latin teachers at the primary and secondary levels with simple and tested strategies for developing active Latin use in their classrooms.
Orthodox Hermeneutical Pre-Suppositions: The Soul of Classical Christian Education
Reading Time: < 1 minute Paul Wolfe gives a brief overview of major epochs of Christian hermeneutics in order to set up a demonstration of the distinctions and similarities between pre-modern, modern, and post-modern interpretive pre-suppositions.
The Feasibility Study: It’s About More than Just the Money
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jason Lewis introduces the 3C analysis and offer examples of how capacity, commitment, and confidence are assessed in the feasibility study process.
Is Cultivating Virtue Wrong? Acedia and the Strange Beliefs of our Students
Reading Time: < 1 minute Joshua Gibbs discusses how acedia is spiritual sluggishness, a dullness of soul.