by kweitz | Jun 14, 2018 | Effective Teaching
C lassical education is not, preeminently, of a specific time or place. It stands instead for a spirit of inquiry and a form of instruction concerned with the development of style through language and of conscience through myth. The keyword here is inquiry. – David...
by Kathy Weitz | Apr 11, 2016 | Content of Wisdom, Effective Teaching
Our high school Humanities II curriculum at Providence Prep concentrates on classic works of literature, poetry, and history—the Great Books canon of western civilization—contextualized by an outstanding history lecture series from Dr. George Grant. In general, our...
by Emily Price (Scholé Groups Support) | Mar 15, 2016 | Effective Teaching
Learning is such a gift! I love to involve students in experiential learning, which engages their senses in what they are learning. Our Scholé Group, Sola Gratia Classical Academy (SGCA), has been a place for students to do just that—fully engage their bodies and...
by Emily Price (Scholé Groups Support) | Aug 13, 2015 | Effective Teaching, Seeking Scholé
Scholé is an important concept at all levels of education, but perhaps especially so in the upper school years (the dialectic and rhetoric stages, i.e., grades 6+). Upper school students devote more of their time to their studies, which necessarily explore more...
by Emily Price (Scholé Groups Support) | Jul 23, 2015 | Effective Teaching
As a classical educator and consultant to classical schools for about twenty years now, I have often been amused and sometimes gratified by the ways scientific research rediscovers what classical educators have known (or at least believed) for centuries. For example,...
