Teaching Latin for Acquisition: The Adventure Continues

Teaching Latin for Acquisition: The Adventure Continues

Course Description: In this class, aimed for persons who have at any time before taken the instructor's crash course, participants will spend roughly half the sessions going deeper into the big three pre-reading tools, Total Physical Response, Personalized Question and Answer, and Picture/Movie Talk, with more sustained demo practice together, and roughly half the class encountering topics and strategies not covered in the earlier crash course. A big theme will be backwards design, or scaffolding up to a text via pre teaching so students can read more fluently. The instructor aims for this class to be a vivacious, jovial, low-stress atmosphere that builds confidence. Come continue the adventure beyond the novice level!

DETAILS

Level: This class is open to anyone who has at any time taken the instructor's Telepaideia CI crash course.

Textbook: Instructor will provide materials.

Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

When
Tuesdays, 7:00p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$250

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Instructor

David Ring

David Ring teaches Latin and Ancient Greek as living languages by using an eclectic mix of methods, ranging from the insights of Renaissance Humanist pedagogy (especially the advice of Erasmus) to the Direct or Nature method to (first and foremost) Teaching with Comprehensible Input. Be it a discussion in Latin or Greek about a beautiful painting, or personal life conversation, or solving riddles, or paraphrasing poets into simpler prose, or storyboarding Lucian's True Stories -- David and his students aim to get lost in the joy of what they are doing, such that they forget they are speaking Latin or Ancient Greek. He believes that the purpose of liberal education is to help young people grow in self-knowledge -- both individual and cultural --, to help them form sharp intellects, wise judgment, and greatness of soul. He believes this is best done via direct encounters with the greatest minds and greatest stories of the last 3,000 years.