2025 Workshop Talk | | General Classroom
Summary
In this session, Dr. Eliot Grasso will offer tools to help teachers lead meaningful discussions with their students. Dr. Grasso will explain how to prepare for discussion, how to create interpretive questions, and how to foster an environment of inquiry that encourages students to take ownership of their learning process.
Speaker
Dr. Eliot Grasso is a tutor on the faculty of Gutenberg College, where he also serves as vice president. He teaches music, art, philosophy, history, literature, and hermeneutics courses in the Western tradition. He has taught higher education in Europe and North America for nearly 20 years. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Oregon, an MA in ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, and a B. in music from Goucher College. Dr. Grasso has presented on culture, education, music, and the arts at institutions, conferences, and homeschooling communities worldwide. He has published articles on art, music, and culture in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, World Music: A Global Journey, Journal of the Vernacular Music Institution, CiRCE’s FORMA Journal, Gutenberg College’s Colloquy, Iris na bPíobairí, and An Píobaire. He is dedicated to training teachers in Socratic-style discussion.
In a parallel universe, Dr. Grasso is an award-winning performer, composer, and recording artist who plays Irish traditional music on the uilleann pipes, an eighteenth-century species of Irish bagpipe with which he performs internationally. He has appeared as a featured artist on NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor, performed and taught for the William Kennedy Piping Festival in Armagh, and appeared as a soloist in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Scotland’s renowned National Piping Festival, Piping Live! Dr. Grasso has served as a music director, co-producer, and consultant for ballets and stage productions and has over a dozen recordings to his name. A fuller picture of his artistic endeavors is available at eliotgrasso.com.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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