SJCA's Team
Training Support
Foundations in Classical Teaching
with Dr. Christopher Perrin
This year’s support focus will refresh you in the basics of classical education as you study through select ClassicalU courses. Each course linked below has a professional certificate available upon completion. To get you excited to begin, here is a brief 11-minute lesson with Dr. Christopher Perrin contemplating the question of “What is Classical Education?”
Featured Courses
Introduction to Classical Education
In this foundational course, Dr. Christopher Perrin provides a clear definition of classical education and then explores key questions.
Principles of Classical Pedagogy
Dr. Christopher Perrin presents the essential principles of classical pedagogy that have been part of the classical tradition of education and explains how each of them can enable one to teach with great effectiveness and impact.
Essentials of Effective Teaching
Robyn Burlew shares her accumulated wisdom and practical insights into what it means to be an effective classical educator.
Featured Courses
The renewal of classical education has grown significantly over the last two decades. However, even seasoned classical educators agree that it can still be difficult to answer the fundamental question: “What is classical education?” In this foundational course, Dr. Christopher Perrin provides a clear definition of classical education and then explores key questions,
In this course, Dr. Christopher Perrin presents the essential principles of classical pedagogy that have been part of the classical tradition of education and explains how each of them can enable one to teach with great effectiveness and impact. Dr. Perrin has given this training to many classical schools and homeschooling teachers across the country, receiving great reviews that have led to great demand for this training.
In this course, Robyn Burlew shares her accumulated wisdom and practical insights into what it means to be an effective classical educator. While Robyn understands the philosophical and historical elements of classical education, she excels at practical planning, assessment, and execution in real classrooms with real students. Those teachers yearning for practical, hands-on guidance in teaching methods, classroom cultivation, testing and assessment, and effective planning will find this course truly essential. In particular, we recommend this course to new or relatively new teachers. Ideally, we think it would be fruitful for small groups of educators to take this course together and discuss each presentation, week by week.
Introduction to Classical Education
Course Links
- Introduction
- Lessons
Lesson 1: A Clear Definition of Classical Education
Lesson 2: Clear Words for Classical Education
Lesson 3: To What Shall I Compare Classical Education?
Lesson 4: Various Models of Classical Education
Lesson 5: The Major Elements of Classical Education
Lesson 6: Tracing the History of Classical Education (part one)
Lesson 6: Tracing the History of Classical Education (part two)
Lesson 7: Why Classical Education?
Lesson 8: Communal Education (Paideia)
Lesson 9: Implementing Classical Education
Lesson 10: The Developing Models of Classical Education
Lesson 11: Deepening Our Understanding of Classical Education
Lesson 12: How to Read Well (Dr. Perrin’s Top 55 Books on Classical Ed)
- End of Course Test
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