2023 Workshop Talk | 44:42 | All Grade Levels, Teacher & Classroom, General Classroom, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
Creating a classroom environment that encourages learning can be challenging to navigate. It can be tempting to rely on behaviorism through systems, charts, and tricks, especially for the new teacher. Behaviorism amplifies sin and reduces a classroom to control and compliance while the shepherd teacher points students to God for rightly ordering their affections. Learn how the shepherd teacher utilizes relationship, classroom liturgy, procedures and routines, and even decor to create a classroom that welcomes the Holy Spirit to change hearts.
Speaker
Kourtney Wright is the Director of Teacher Development, overseeing Westside Christian Academy’s Arete Institute for Classical Christian Instruction, and the Grammar
School Curriculum & Instruction at WCA in Westlake, Ohio. She has taught at WCA since 2011 in grades PreK–8, as well as serving in leadership capacities. Kourtney de-
veloped a love for classical education as a student of the Great Books Honors College at Faulkner University. She is passionate about training teachers in classical methodology, biblical worldview integration, and the shepherding of students’ hearts. Her passion for teacher training has led her to minister through professional development mission trips to teachers in Central Asia. When she is not teaching, she can be found volunteering, playing board games, or hiking with her husband and children.
kwright@westsideacademy.org
Additional Materials
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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