2020 Workshop Talk | 1:07:45 | All Grade Levels, Academics & Curriculum, Teacher & Classroom, Math, Philosophy, Quadrivium, Science
Summary
Across the past 30 years, the classical Christian school movement has done a tremendous job reclaiming the trivium, and yet one of the greatest pedagogical challenges we face today involves the other set of the liberal arts: the quadrivium. How moderns view, and thus how they’ve taught, the arts of math and science has moved away from an encounter with truth, good, and beauty, and into the realms of materialism and utility. For years, we’ve been involved in discussions about how to teach science and math “classically”: the latter is particularly challenging because the very disciplines we teach today were not even around back then in their current forms. What if there was a way to use medieval methodologies to cast light into the darker corners of this problem, to give us a framework by which we can see the logos in what seems to be so many facts, figures, and procedures? What if we could teach math and science in technically masterful ways, but also in musical and poetic ways? In this session, I’ll present some frameworks to improve our quadrivium pedagogy, and also open up the discussion about what we could do with the right questions and philosophical frameworks in place.
Speaker
Chris Hall earned a BA in philosophy from Gettysburg College and an MAT in elementary education from Towson University. He has served as a lower-school academic dean and a PS-8 science department chair, in addition to teaching math, science, physical education, and guitar, primarily in the middle grades, for 24 years . In 2017, he founded Always Learning Education, a consulting firm specializing in teacher training and curriculum design . Complementary to his academic pursuits, he is an
avid outdoorsman, musician, craftsman, and farmer. He and his wife homeschool their three sons on a wooded homestead in central Virginia.
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