2022 Workshop Talk | 1:01:16 | General Classroom, Latin, Greek & Language, Math, Science
Summary
As a long time Latin teacher, I am all too familiar with students who say, “I took five years of Latin and all I remember is amo, amas, amat.” Although usually said for a laugh, I have always known that past the humor there was a thread of truth. As a public school survivor, I recognize all too readily the “cram-pass-forget” cycle posited by John Mays. Our school—particularly the math, science, and foreign language departments—is on a journey to implement mastery based learning that we have learned from John Mays. We hope to inspire and enable other schools as well.
Speaker
Kelly Songer is the lead teacher of foreign languages at Wilson Hill Academy where she has been teaching since 2015. She graduated from Abilene Christian University with a bachelor of arts in human communication. She and her husband, Jimmy, lived and worked as missionaries in the Philippines for fourteen years, where all four of their children were born. Her love of languages was sparked when she took Greek as an elective in college. She learned Tagalog while working as a missionary, and upon returning to Texas, she had the opportunity to learn Latin. She has taught Latin to grammar, logic, and rhetoric students for the past twelve years in both the online and brick and mortar classrooms.
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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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