1 LIST OF IDEAS FROM MARCH CONVERSATION

JANET
there is a such a thing as a FTR site- "File Transfer something", affordable.
You go to the site and work on shared files.
I will try it out and report.










Structure of Document

I. Principle of Modern Classical Education

CLASSICAL *PRINCIPLES*
-define what is classical


MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES
-Freedom withing limits students


THE MIND
-GREAT IDEAS
----expand the vision of life, possibilities, love of learning
-ennobling
-heroism





FREEDOM WITHIN LIMITS FOR TEACHERS IDEA
-teachers plans can be barnyard, within that you can pull from sources
-what tools do you think you might use.

CORE ABILITIES

WHAT CORE ABILITIES ARE WE DEVELOPING?


TEACHER'S ROLE

COACH STUDENTS THRU THE FIRST STAGES OF STRESSFUL CHANGE
-learn to love that feeling
-look athow coaches in sports do it.
-hold up the goal
-gentle enhancement

INTERPERSONAL BONDING WITH STUDENTS
-Gordon Neufeld material
-ten helpful practices
-do not discount the import of this.
-neither children nor students are machines
-types of students
-stages of learnign according to his system
-what teachers should know about the early stages.






II. What to Learn
1. Student's Tool Skills

JANET- define and list tool skills, please

Reading
Writing
Math


SUBJECTS TO LEARN
Why we learn these
What happens to the mind by learning these
What ought to be taught


ENGLISH- things every teacher should know
PHONICS role
SITE READING role
list of foreign words
Justification for Latin
---roots program- why
---analysis of weakness of many roots progra
-----recommendation

INTRODUCING ALL SUBJECTS
--big picture
--why this is important
--how you can use this



MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS
--stories of peplerising from nothing to major players in life.
--we should have lots of stories for teachers to share.





Summary of notes as study




2. Structuring Student's World Knowledge
JANET- what is this?




III.Teacher's Tool Box
1. Classroom Management
class meetings


2. Lesson Plans
How to get the most out of the time you have in a classroom
How many tools
how many core abilities are you eercising.
...tools skills are they using?

Jennies matrix
-list of tools, core abiliteis etc. to check off
-lessons learned
TEACHER'S TOOLBOX
-Cheryl has it.

3.WARNINGS
-common mistakes

4. Classroom Environment
5. Teaching Methods for Tool Skills
build fluency
train core abilities
train visual faculty

6. Teaching Methods for Structuring World Knowledge
WING WENGER PRINCIPLES
7. Homework
HOW TO DESIGN EFFECTIVE HOMEWORK

IV. Struggling Students
Keys to recognizing early learning disabilities
-what to do abou it

Accelerating students who are behind
Remediation for Reading, Math
COMMON MISTAKES
-concretes- overused,
SLOW READERS
-nathan's exercise
PEOPLE TO CONSULT WITH
ask Nathan for input



V. Grade Examples and stories
1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade

CONCRETES This could be in early grades or in accelerating struggling students.
-how to move from outer to inner
-how to help kids do ithow to knowthe havesuccereded
-causs ofinability
-use senses
-walk through examples in their mind

MATH
Common things kids don't get and how to help them get it
-subtraction
if they can't say an example thenthey actually don't get it
HANDWRITING
-review of programs

KEYS TO PHYSICAL READING

HOW TO TEACH A READING CLASS

HOW TO TEACH COMPREHENSION

HANDY LISTS
POSTERS FOR THE CLASS




Extra thoughts
NOTES FROM JANET'S Teacher Training

GET A LIST OF TOOL SKILLS

HOW TO EFFECTIVELY TEACH ONE SUBJECT witn Integration
Revolutionary Education Ideas

General Principles of eduation, learning

who is our audience

take same material

who do we start with

HOW TO TEACH KIDS TO STUDY AND GET THEM TO DO IT

EXAMPLES FOR TEACHERS
-picture of each one beign implemented
-what it should look like
-the teacher had the students....


practicing tool skills

DEALING WITH NEW, STRESSSFUL TEACHING PRACTICES


HANDLE PRINCIPLES
gentle enhancement
understanding the gentlegrowth of teh nervous system

WORKING WITH GOVERNMENT DEMANDS
-how not to destroy minds in the process of keeping one's job
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ACTION ITEMS for APRIL
Make a layout of book
inventory of what we have
inventory o some things we need
inventory of what nathan and others can provide.






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