2016 Workshop Talk | 0:52:36 | 7-12, Logic
Summary
This workshop focuses on how to develop and refine logic classes for 7th and 8th graders. As logic teachers, we all hope to equip our students to think critically and argue constructively. In this seminar, we will look at how to accomplish that goal by adding the Toulmin model of argumentation to traditional formal and informal logic and having students practice these skills in essays, discussions, skits, debates, and other forms of argumentation.
Speaker
Matt Jasinski graduated from the University of Texas in 2006, and after a two-year stint with the Boys and Girls Club, God led Matt to Regents School of Austin in 2008 where he has been for the past eight years. During that time, Matt has taught sixth grade, coached varsity boysÍ basketball, and is currently overseeing the instruction and development of the 7th grade informal and 8th grade formal logic courses and their connection to a logic-division formal debate project. Matt spends his time learning and reading about theories of argumentation, philosophy, and logic, reading historical fiction and Harry Potter, watching sports, singing and dancing to songs from Frozen and The Lion King, competing in living room track meets with his son, and attending classes in his daughterÍs bedroom. Matt has been married to his wife, Lauren, for eight years, and they have two kids, Avery (6) and Beckett (3).
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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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