A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast Liz Cottrill, Emily Kiser and Nicole Williams
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Through twice monthly conversations, three moms who have studied the Charlotte Mason method of education and put her ideas into practice in their homes join together to share with one another for the benefit of listeners by giving explanations of Mason's principles and examples of those principles put into practice out of their own teaching experience. These short discussions aim at providing information, support, and encouragement for others by unfolding the myriad aspects.
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Season 9 Closing Ceremonies
The end of the school year and the end of this podcast season is cause to pause and reflect. The ADE ladies review the past year and encourage you to not just slam the books closed, but pause to remember the good and give thanks. We also provide a great number of helpful episodes and resources as you plan for the upcoming school year. The episode closes with a fitting devotional to help you gain perspective on the value of the past year and inspire you for what lies ahead.
“Every mother, especially, should keep a diary in which to note the successive phases of her child’s physical, mental, and moral growth, with particular attention to the moral.” (2/105-106)
Episode 241: Seasonal Reflections
Seasonal Reflection Questions
Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method
Episodes by Topic
ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February each year, access for 3 months following)
Teacher Training Videos
ADE's Patreon Community
Parents' Educational Course
Episode 232: Forecasting Lessons -- How to plan
Forecasting Teacher Training Video
Form Overviews:
Form IB Overview Form IA Overview Form IIB Overview Form IIA Overview Form III Overview Forms IV-VI Overview
Subjects By Form
Episode 162: Creating Your Own CM Curriculum
Curriculum Templates
Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Your Curriculum
Schedule Cards
Episode 264: The Time-Table
Episode 33: Scheduling a CM Education
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The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method
There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education.
"The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19)
"With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278)
"Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20)
Beauty & Truth Math
Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?
Episode 182: Visualization
Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method
Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum
Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books
ADE's Patreon Community -
Trusting the Method with Sandra Johnson
This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode Sandy Johnson, mom of three, joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. As she has graduated her oldest daughter who is now in college, Sandy reflects on her own education, and how different the education she is giving her children is. With humility and strength, Sandy shares her family's personal struggles and points us to the Hope we all need.
Charlotte Mason's Home Education Series (Audiobook)
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard
Awaken Living Books Conference
Episode 276: ADE Book Discussion: Vanity Fair
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Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum
As we near the end of this season-long discussion on "Trusting the Method" we turn our attention to the curriculum itself. How can we choose curriculum that Trusts Charlotte Mason's Method? How can we evaluate whether a resource or curriculum follows the method in part or whole? How do we decide if we even *want* to trust the method with our curriculum?
"N.B.1 In home schoolrooms where there are children in A as well as in B, both forms may work together, doing the work of A or B as they are able, but more work must be expected from I A." (All P.U.S. Programmes)
Arabella Buckley's Eyes and No-Eyes Series Here and Here
Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetics
Beauty & Truth Math
Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?
Charlotte Mason's Curriculum Programmes
Episode 70: CM Purists
Visual Latin
ADE's Teacher Helps
Episode 6: Living Books
Episode 7: Recognizing Living Books
Episode 8: Narration 2.0
Episode 3: The Role of the Teacher
Episode 5: The Power of Connection
ADE's Episodes by Topic
Charlotte Mason's Short Synopsis:
Points 1-4 Points 5-8 Points 9-12 Points 13-15 Points 16-19 Point 20
ADE's Patreon Community -
Trusting the Method with Morgan Conner
This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, as she prepares to graduate her oldest student this spring, Morgan Conner joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. After jumping from one curriculum to the next, once Morgan discovered Charlotte Mason, she never looked back, but that doesn't mean it has always been easy. You will glean much from Morgan's vulnerability and honesty as she describes overcoming her perfectionistic tendencies and learned to trust the Lord with even the smallest details with her neurodiverse students.
For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Q&A about Nature Walks
Podcast Episode on Forecasting
Forecasting Teacher Training Workshop
Morgan's episode on Reading Charlotte Mason's Volumes
Morgan's episode on Planning Physical Geography Lessons
ADE's Patreon Community -
ADE Book Club Discussion -- Vanity Fair
Charlotte Mason firmly believed that novels are our greatest teachers, hence why she included them as a major serving in the feast that nourishes our children's education. This episode was recorded live at the ADE At Home conference, February 2, 2024, with Nicole, Emily, and Liz leading a discussion with attendees who had read the book and come to contribute what they had been taught by William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel Vanity Fair. If you have read the book, you will revel in the myriad messages this book conveyed to us all, and if you have not, you will be inspired to read it.
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
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