2023 Foundations Talk | 58:20 | All Grade Levels, Academics & Curriculum, General Classroom, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
How do we practically direct the affections of our students? It is in all of our marketing materials, and on all of our lips that one of our primary goals is to direct the affections of our students to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, but what does that look like in the classroom? This workshop, which will focus specifically on beauty, will begin the process of training teachers how to direct affections within their classrooms and while walking the halls. The goal is to define beauty, understand why teaching to direct affections is so hard, and to discuss several practical ways to teach this way in our classrooms. Directing students’ affections is the highest calling a teacher has, and it is one of the hardest. It is difficult because the teacher must model it before they teach it. The teacher is the curriculum.
Speaker
Caleb Sasser is the Upper School Principal and Humanities Department Chair at Westside Christian Academy in Westlake, Ohio. He teaches Shakespeare, Plato, Homer, and many other classics while advising student theses, taking an active role in teacher training and mentoring, and leading the Upper School Faculty. He has taught students at every stage of the trivium in his nine-year career in classical Christian schools. Caleb is a commissioned Lay Catechist in his parish of St. Anselm Anglican Church. He also enjoys spending time with his family (he and his wife, Anna, have three amazing and endlessly surprising kids), working in his garden and woodshop, taking long hikes, and reading good books. He holds a B.A. in Classical Liberal Arts: Pedagogy from Patrick Henry College where he received the award for excellence in the Classical Liberal Arts.
csasser@westsideacademy.org
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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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