The Good Teacher: Ten Key Pedagogical Principles That Will Transform Your Teaching
The Good Teacher: Ten Key Pedagogical Principles That Will Transform Your Teaching
The Good Teacher highlights what are often overlooked in books about teaching—principles. It is about the timeless principles of classical pedagogy that characterize great teaching and make a teacher good at the craft. Rather than focusing on discrete techniques of teaching, this book delves into the unchanging realities of how humans learn, develop, and grow.
The Good Teacher explores these ten timeless principles:
- Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly)
- Multum Non Multa (Much Not Many)
- Repetitio Mater Memoriae (Repetition Is the Mother of Memory)
- Songs, Chants, and Jingles
- Wonder and Curiosity
- Scholé and Contemplation
- Embodied Learning, Liturgical and Poetic
- Docendo Discimus (By Teaching We Learn)
- Optimus Magister Bonus Liber Est (The Best Teacher Is a Good Book)
- Conversation and Friendship
Teaching is an art, after all, and the liberal arts and the great books compose the best course of studies to cultivate human capacity and virtue that lead to a life of wisdom and effective service and work. Containing practical illustrations from every stage of school, this book also includes assessment prompts for becoming a truly good teacher.
"When we write of the 'good teacher,' we have multiple meanings in mind: 1) a teacher who is herself a virtuous, good person that students will imitate; and 2) a teacher who is good at the craft of teaching, who demonstrates lifelong learning. . . . She is a good model and a good pedagogue. In our view this is the proper order: Seek to be a good human being, then seek to be a good pedagogue. The first should lead the second."
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Specifications
Specifications
Paperback
ISBN: 9781600516870
Dimensions: 6in x 9in
Weight: 1.0 lb
Contributors
Contributors
Christopher Perrin MDiv, PhD, Author
Dr. Christopher Perrin is an author, consultant, and speaker who specializes in classical education. He is committed to the renewal of the liberal arts tradition. He cofounded and serves full-time as the CEO/publisher at Classical Academic Press, a classical education curriculum, media, and consulting company. Christopher is also a consultant to charter, public, private, and Christian schools across the country. He serves on the board of the Society for Classical Learning and as the director of the Alcuin Fellowship of classical educators. He has published numerous articles and lectures that are widely used throughout the United States and the English-speaking world.
Christopher received his BA in history from the University of South Carolina and his MDiv and PhD in apologetics from Westminster Theological Seminary. He was also a special student in literature at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has taught at Messiah College and Chesapeake Theological Seminary, and served as the founding headmaster of a classical school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for ten years. He is the author of An Introduction to Classical Education, The Greek Alphabet Code Cracker and the coauthor of the Latin for Children series, all published by Classical Academic Press.
Carrie Eben MSEd, Author
Carrie Eben is a founding board member at Sager Classical Academy in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. As a consultant, she develops and delivers customized workshops for administrators, teachers, and parents in both classical school and homeschool settings (www.classicaleben.com). She also leads cohorts and participates on accreditation teams for Society for Classical Learning. In addition, she is an adjunct instructor of Integrated Humanities at John Brown University. Carrie is a CiRCE Institute Master teacher who holds a BSE in Intermediate Education from John Brown University, a MSEd in Curriculum and Instruction from Oklahoma State University, and is a PhD student in the Humanities program at Faulkner University.