2025 Workshop Talk | | Teacher & Classroom, General Classroom
Summary
How does one teach well? How would one ever master the art of teaching? In this seminar, we will note the difference between a principle of teaching and various techniques or methods. We will see how teaching techniques will come and go while essential teaching principles abide forever. We will then explore the following essential pedagogical principles handed down to us from a long tradition of teaching: 1) making haste slowly, 2) going deep to go wide, 3) meaningful repetition and review, 4) singing and chanting, 5) wondering and musing, 6) embodying what is learned 7) resting and contemplating, 8) teaching to learn 9) discussing great books, 10) seeking virtue first and last. The seminar is keyed to The Good Teacher: Ten Key Principles That Will Transform Your Teaching by Christopher Perrin and Carrie Eben and will conclude with counsel on how to slowly master the art of teaching and by taking questions from the audience as well as providing resources to help at this time of crisis.
Speaker
Christopher Perrin, MDiv, PhD, is the CEO of Classical Academic Press, and a national leader, author, and speaker for the renewal of classical education. He is the author of An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents, Greek for Children Primer A, The Scholé Way: Bringing Restful Learning Back to School and Homeschool, and co-author of The Good Teacher: Ten Key Pedagogical Principles That Will Transform Your Teaching, as well as the Latin for Children series. He serves as a consultant to classical Christian schools and schools converting to the classical model. He is the founder and board president of the Alcuin Fellowship, and an adjunct professor with the honor’s program at Messiah College and with the Classical School Leadership master’s program at Gordon College. Chris previously served for ten years as a headmaster of a classical Christian school in Harrisburg, PA.
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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