What Classical Teaching Courses Can I Take on this Substack in Fall 2024?
Free Training for Classical Teachers
See previous Course Announcement for Fall 2024:
Training Course for Teachers in Classical Schools
This is the introductory guide (Teacher's Manual) for a seven year programme using Classical Christian Education (CCE) according to the Trivium and Quadrivium, intended, at the earliest age, for ages 14 to 21 but, given the dark times (in terms of education) that we live in, may well have to be 'taken' much later in life.
Reminder: no degrees or diagnostic testing or grading is offered by St Theodore's Institute, which itself is a virtual and voluntary association of persons using the materials—all courses are self-paced using the materials provided.
The courses consist of one week 'meetings' or 'sessions' and do not have scheduled hours. Sessions run Mondays to Mondays and announcements will be made on substack about the chat threads for the coming weeks sessions.
Courses offered are:
The Trivium/Quadrivium Training course for teaching Freshman Year. Getting started is the hardest part and most of the hard work to create the training curriculum for teachers, will be done in Fall 2024.
Latin Prose Composition 1, including a grammar review, for persons who already know Latin, and will be teaching four years of Latin. If you don't know Latin but want to learn, you will be pointed to the materials you will be *using* as a teacher, and can self-instruct at the same rate you will be teaching. You can then use the materials provided as a review course to test your knowledge.
Moral Philosophy: Tucker's Blackstone. Moral Philosophy, as a Scholastic subject, covers Natural Law, Ethics, Politics, and the Law (Civil and Common). _Tucker's Blackstone_ is an American adaptation of the _Laws of England_, by Blackstone, with appendices on early thinking in Virginia and about the US Constitution, ca. 1800, when things were still very fluid.
Southern American Literature. This course will give you a chance to engage with the rather voluminous portion of American Literature that you may not have been exposed to in High School or College. Some lesser read colonial literature from New England will be included as well.
This is an intensive training course, designed to train teachers who will be teaching our notional seven-year classical education program, or in whatever similar programme their household or institution offers. If the course is too intense for you, just work through the materials at a slower pace, or skip the parts you don’t need!
If the course is too intense for me to keep up with, then some materials may be delivered late.
The 'target programme' for Classical Education aims for 'Rhetoric Phase' (approx. ages from 14 up). It could be taught starting at the University level as well. Initially, the curriculum you will learn to teach will have four years—Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, corresponding to the ages of High School students, in the American system. However, it is entirely ambiguous and the same year designations could be used at University level.
How do I start?
Attend the first two plenary sessions the weeks of Sept 9, 2024 and Sept 16, 2024 by 1/ signing up for https://macrobius.substack.com 2/ each 'session' is a chat thread that points to materials. There is no face to face or group activity or podcasts at this time, though that can be discussed.
Where will the 'course chat threads' be?
Besides the main Trivium/Quadrivium training course, announcement linked above, each of the two initial 'plenary sessions' (Orientation and Introduction to the Liberal Arts) will be given announcements on the substack. You will be pointed to the 'open source' site for downloading curriculum materials as well.
In addition, the threads for the other courses are here:
Chat for Latin Prose Composition 1 https://substack.com/chat/292018/post/f523e6e0-3cbc-4861-800f-c88f1460354e
Chat for Moral Philosophy: Tucker's Blackstone https://substack.com/chat/292018/post/a5f3a4a8-3fe3-455c-8b6b-51118e5d09de
Chat for Quadrivium for STEM https://substack.com/chat/292018/post/e5703841-9cf9-4406-bb5e-b9aac30db3cb
Chat for Southern American Literature https://substack.com/chat/292018/post/66075bc6-809a-4c98-83b5-5d1eeccdfc99
The available courses and 'tracks' will be introduced during the 'Orientation Session' which starts Sept 9, 2024 and will be announced on the substack on Sept 7, 2024.