Your Leadership's Proprietary Training
Orient your school teams with a customized learning track that can include your leadership’s proprietary training content alongside of some of our standard content. We’ve included an example of our own below with a welcome from Dr. Christopher Perrin.
Foundations in Classical Teaching with Dr. Christopher Perrin
This faculty orientation will support you where you are at in your classical education journey 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 foundational question of “What is Classical Education?”
Classical Teaching Certificates
Classical Education Orientation Certificate
This customized certificate pathway can combine lessons from multiple ClassicalU courses including Introduction to Classical Education with Dr. Christopher Perrin and A Brief History of Classical Educaiton with Dr. Matthew Post.
Well-Ordered Language Certificate
Author Tammy Peters prepares teachers of Well-Ordered Language to implement both the curriculum’s sentence analysis script and diagramming with their students. Includes model lessons and training on each level of the curriculum.
Humanitas History Certificate
This customized certificate pathway could include content from Humanitas Teacher Training with Nate Antiel as well as Teaching Medieval History with Junius Johnson, the Medieval Humanitas volume editor.
Formal Logic Certificate
Author and veteran logic teacher Joelle Hodges equips educators of upper-school students to teach formal logic as a fundamental liberal art, providing a thorough introduction to the main elements of formal logic and how they apply to all learning.
CLT Great Books Certificate
A variety of master educators provide teaching recommendations for many of the Great Books and reading principles utilized in the Classic Learning Test.
New to Classical Education Learning Track
Year One
Introduction to Classical Education
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.
Year One
Essentials of Effective Teaching
In this course, Robyn Burlew shares her accumulated wisdom and practical insights into what it means to be an effective classical educator. 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.
Year One
The Teacher’s Playbook
Newer classical school teachers often find it difficult to visualize what good practice looks like in one’s own particular context. In these sessions, Jerilyn Olsen lays out a vision of what good teaching might look like, and how teachers can organize their ideas around the framework of rhetoric.
Year Two
A Brief History of Progressive Education
In this course, Dr. Jason Edwards presents a concise history of progressive education that explains how modern education emerged around 1900 to challenge and eventually replace traditional, classical education as the reigning paradigm for American education.
Year Two
The Scholé Way
In this all-new course, Dr. Perrin explores how the classical concept of restful, contemplative learning—scholé—provides formation in wisdom, virtue, and a deep intellectual life. Tracing the roots of scholé in classical philosophy, Christian theology, and monastic education, the course examines how this tradition contrasts with the anxiety-driven tendencies of modern schooling.
Grammar School (K-5) Multi-Year Learning Track
Year One
Grammar School Teaching and Leadership
In this course, master grammar school educator and principal Lori Jill Keeler harmonizes classical principles of education with modern research on the brain, blends her knowledge and insights with practical counsel, and makes practical suggestions for how to wholly engage every student when teaching.
Year One
Narration: A Classical Guide
In this course, Charlotte Mason expert, Jason Barney explores and explains the practice of a reading practice called narration and shows how teachers in classical schools can employ it to great effect and benefit.
Year One
Essentials of Effective Teaching
In this course, Robyn Burlew shares her accumulated wisdom and practical insights into what it means to be an effective classical educator. 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.
Year One
Teaching Singapore Math
This is a crucial course for any teacher preparing to teach Singapore Math. Master teacher and grammar school principal Dawn Swartz blends her familiarity with classical education, her extensive experience, and her passion for Singapore Math into this practical course on how to implement and teach Singapore Math
Year Two
Awakening the Moral Imagination through Fairy Tales and Stories
In this course, Dr. Vigen Guroian presents three lectures on the ways that classic literature awakens the moral imagination. He also leads several discussions with three classical educators in which they discuss six classical stories and explore the ways these stories awaken the moral imagination and thus cultivate virtue.
Upper School (6-12) Multi-Year Learning Track
Year One
Essentials of Effective Teaching
In this course, Robyn Burlew shares her accumulated wisdom and practical insights into what it means to be an effective classical educator. 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.
Year One
Socratic Teaching Symposium
In this symposium course, we address why classical educators must learn the skill of Socratic teaching, and describe several approaches to leading a Socratic seminar or discussion, noting various advantages and disadvantages associated with each approach. We do this by interviewing presenters who use each approach and by showing them leading live, recorded seminars and discussions.
Year One
Teaching the Great Books
In this course, Joshua Gibbs shares what he has learned over the course of 10 years about teaching the Great Books to upper-school students. He also addresses practical pedagogical issues: how to teach, how to read, how to create meaningful assignments and tests, how to manage parents, and how to create rhythms and traditions throughout the year that blend regularity and rhythm with the unexpected and surprise.
Year One
Assessing Students Classically
This multi-presenter course reviews assessment approaches in the history of education and suggests methods of assessing students classically that align with the ideals of the classical tradition of education.
Year 2
Awakening the Moral Imagination through Fairy Tales and Stories
In this course, Andrew Kern presents what he considers to be two critical modes of classical pedagogy: mimetic and Socratic teaching. By mimetic teaching, he means the ways in which educators present models for imitation and incarnate the delight of learning, thus becoming models themselves.
Include a Custom Course within a Pathway
Your Custom Course
ClassicalU is glad to build one custom course from lessons across multiple courses using our existing courses even with your proprietary content at no additional cost for team subscribers.*
*There is no additional charge for up to four learning tracks with one custom course. More extensive customized certificate pathways, more than one customized cours or use of your proprietary content may require some additional annual fees that we can negotiate on a case-by-case basis.
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