2018 Workshop Talk | 1:03:20 | All Grade Levels, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
Assessment has the power to confirm stated pedagogical priorities or subvert them. Despite a strong emphasis on virtue formation, most classical schools continue to assess only for curricular content using letter or number grades. Students hear the unspoken message loud and clear: virtue may be important but grades are the priority. So, how can we get better at assessing for virtue? In this talk, I propose one model. I argue that virtues can and should be assessed, not with grades but in conversation and in writing between teacher and student. By assessing for virtue, classical educators and administrators can truly prioritize virtue formation.
Speaker
Keith Buhler (PhD University of Kentucky) has more than a decade of experience in classical education. He has served as the assistant director of Wheatstone Academy, master tutor at the Torrey Academy, and high-school director at Veritas Christian Academy in Lexington, KY. He earned his BA in humanities from Biola University, the Torrey Honors Institute. He also holds an MA in Eastern Orthodox theology and a PhD in philosophy. Dr. Buhler is currently an humanities instructor at Trinity Classical Academy where he teaches history, Bible, and ancient Greek language. Before that, he taught philosophy courses at the University of Kentucky and Asbury University. His dissertation focused on virtue ethics.
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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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