Teacher Training at Tall Oaks
June 19 & 20, 2009: Spell to Read and Write – Tracey Williams
Tracey Williams is offering the two-day training program for Spell to Write and Read, an excellent phonics program for grades K through 5. After completing this training and purchasing two teacher books and a set of phonogram cards, you will be equipped to teach spelling, writing and reading through grade five. All you will need to purchase each year is a one-dollar composition book! Tracey Williams is a certified trainer for this program that has been used at Tall Oaks since we opened in 1994. Call or email the school to register for this course. Fee: $135.
July Summer Programs (Latin and Logic) – Christina Schneider and Nathan Tillman
Every classical curriculum needs to include some Latin and Logic, but if you weren’t blessed with a classical education yourself, it is difficult to give these to your children or students. If you are a classical school teacher or a home school parent who needs to keep up with your kids, we may have your solution. We have opened our Summer Enrichment program classes in Latin and Logic to adults this year. Take one or both of these four-week crash courses. A certificate of completion will be offered to teachers at your request. For more information, download our Summer Enrichment Program brochure.
August 10 – 14, 2009 – Continuing Education for Classical and Christian Teachers and Home Schoolers
Christine Perrin – Don Post – Jim Selby – Steve Turley – Dory Zinkand
This is an ACCS approved training program. Poet and author of The Art of Poetry, Christine Perrin will spend one day teaching us how to teach poetry. Jim Selby will be with us two days, training us in the use of his Classical Composition program, a curriculum, based on the ancient Progymnasmata, for teaching composition and rhetoric for grades 4 through 12. Our own Steve Turley will lead a discussion of a Christian philosophy of art and Dory Zinkand will lead a practical workshop on how to integrate visual art and music into other curriculum areas. Other workshops led by Don Post and Dory Zinkand will include long-range and lesson planning, assessment and grading practices appropriate to the three levels of the Trivium and the practical teaching wisdom of John Milton Gregory’s The Seven Laws of Teaching. Download a brochure for more information.