Foundations in Classical Teaching
with Dr. Christopher Perrin
This year’s faculty development 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?”
Certificate Pathway
Veritas School: A Survey in the Renewal of Classical Education
In this mini course, Dr. Christopher Perrin examines the revival of classical education over the past forty years, focusing on how the ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty have been renewed within this tradition.
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
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.
Growing Classroom Culture through Parent Partnerships
In this course, Robyn Burlew shares her accumulated wisdom and practical insights for forging meaningful partnerships with parents in order to develop a rich and healthy classroom culture.
Follow-up Courses
Teaching 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 in a school or homeschool setting.
Science and the Symphony of Creation
In this course, John Mays helps science teachers connect their students to the wonders of reality, the beauty of creation, and a fuller experience of God’s creation beyond the things we find in our science textbooks, classrooms, and lessons.
Narration: A Classical Guide
In this course, Charlotte Mason expert, Jason Barney explores and explains a reading practice called narration in which students learned to tell back and summarize passages which they have read and shows how teachers in classical schools can employ it to great effect and benefit.
Common Arts Education
In this course, educator and author Chris Hall delivers five lectures that define and describe the common arts and also identify their place alongside the liberal and the fine arts.
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