Casting Out Fear
By Alexis Mausolf “Perfect love casts out fear.” – 1 John 4:18Have we ever needed to hear this truth more urgently? We live in a climate of division, reaction, and uncertainty – all rooted in fear. While musing on this …
Living Latin and Comprehensible Input
UD’s Living Latin curriculum for K-5 is partly based on current research on comprehensible input (to the extent that it is compatible with the tradition of classical liberal arts education – we’ll touch on that another time). Comprehensible input is …
Sheltered vs. Unsheltered Language
in UD’s Living Latin Curriculum
UD’s Living Latin curriculum exposes students to both sheltered and unsheltered language, because both are important and necessary for language acquisition. Gouin Series, Little Socratic talks, picture studies, and some of the picture books are examples of mostly sheltered language. …
Sheltered vs. Unsheltered Language
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Lux et Veritas Classical Education Conference
UD’s Classical Education Team and St Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School in Houston are happy to announce our joint Catholic Classical Education Conference:
UD’s Living Latin Curriculum in Action
Here are some of our current curriculum pilot students in action! To find out about participating in our 2021/22 pilot please click here. A six year old reciting Psalm 42:1 Listen to this 6 year old sing Twinkle, twinkle little …
The Real Nutcracker
It’s the time of year when many people like to watch Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet. But did you know that in the story on which it is based, the evil mouse king is in fact not defeated by Marie’s shoe, but …
The Medieval and Humanist Inspiration for UD’s Living Latin Curriculum
One of my main inspirations for UD’s Living Latin curriculum, for which I am currently writing Level 1 (K-4th grade), came from an appendix in a book on St. Ignatius’ Idea of a Jesuit University (1954), by Father George Ganss (1905-2000). In this appendix entitled “Historical Sketch of the Teaching of Latin,” Fr. Ganss shows that up until the 1700s, and especially during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Humanism, Latin was taught as a living language, and this corresponds to different objectives than today: “[M]odern methods of teaching Latin aim chiefly to impart knowledge about the language and its literature. In contrast, the ancient methods in the 13th and in the 16th centuries aimed chiefly to develop an art – the art of speaking, reading and writing the language” (p. 226).
Professional Development for K-12 Classical Schools
The UD K-12 Classical Education team has been offering Professional Development for classical educators over the last 12 months. Most recently the team visited five schools and led teachers through the process of creating Socratic questions for any subject. As …
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