1 hr 9 min
Memory Tips & The Beauty in History A True Good Beautiful Life
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- Education
Welcome to A TRUE GOOD BEAUTIFUL LIFE podcast!
Here we will discuss all things Charlotte Mason in light of the ideas of the TRUE, the GOOD, and the BEAUTIFUL! I am your host, Jennifer Milligan, and throughout this series I will share with you how to find and cultivate various elements of TRUTH, GOODNESS and BEAUTY in our homes and classrooms through conversations with homeschooling parents and classroom teachers; interviews with experts, entrepreneurs, and artists; discussions regarding the great books, great minds, and great resources; fun travel and field trip summaries; and practices and creative experiences that embody the TRUE, the GOOD, and the BEAUTIFUL life. Over 100 years ago, British educator, Charlotte Mason, declared that, "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life," and so today, I hope you will join me on this adventure in education.
ON THIS EPISODE
Can you remember a poem that you learned in Elementary School? Or a Bible verse from Sunday School? How about that speech you did in 9th Grade History class?
Today I’m going to mix things up and start us off with our segment on the GOOD as I talk about some helpful habits to assist you and your students in memorizing material or practicing physical skills. Following that, I have an intriguing conversation with David Mathwin, the Dean of Students and History teacher at Ad Fontes Academy in Centreville, Virginia, the place where I first heard and learned about Classical Education. For our TRUE and BEAUTIFUL segments, Dave will share with us his philosophy on teaching and how he uses elements of BEAUTY to inspire and instill in his students the TRUTHS of History and life. So put your thinking caps on and let’s delve in!
Our Favorite Resources:
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning by James Lang Home Education Series Bundle by Charlotte Mason The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary by Matthieu Pageau A Study of History, Volume 1: Abridgement of Vol. 1-6 by Arnold Toynbee The Histories by Polybius The Histories by Herodotus
COMMONPLACE QUOTES
If you restudy something after failing to recall it, you actually learn it better than if you had not tried to recall it. The effort of retrieving knowledge or skills strengthens its staying power and your ability to recall it in the future. - Make It Stick, p. 203
. . . [it is often assumed that] a baseball player who practices batting by swinging at fifteen fastballs, then at fifteen curveballs, and then at fifteen change-ups will perform better than the player who mixes it up. But the player who asks for random pitches during practice builds his ability to decipher and respond to each pitch as it comes his way, and he becomes the better hitter." - Make It Stick, p. 206
Mixing up problem types and specimens improves your ability to discriminate between types, identify the unifying characteristics within a type, and improves your success in a later test or in real-world settings where you must discern the kind of problem you're trying to solve in order to apply the correct solution." - Make It Stick, pp. 206-207
Here, too, is a subject which should be to the child an inexhaustible storehouse of ideas, should enrich the chambers of his House Beautiful with a thousand tableaux, pathetic and heroic, and should form in him, insensibly, principles whereby he will hereafter judge of the behavior of nations, and will rule his own conduct as one of a nation. This is what the study of history should do for the child. . . - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 279
Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot upon which our curriculum turns. History is the rich pasture of the mind – which increases upon the knowledge of men and events and, more than all, upon the sense of nationhood . . .” - Charlotte Mason, Volume 6: A Philosophy
Welcome to A TRUE GOOD BEAUTIFUL LIFE podcast!
Here we will discuss all things Charlotte Mason in light of the ideas of the TRUE, the GOOD, and the BEAUTIFUL! I am your host, Jennifer Milligan, and throughout this series I will share with you how to find and cultivate various elements of TRUTH, GOODNESS and BEAUTY in our homes and classrooms through conversations with homeschooling parents and classroom teachers; interviews with experts, entrepreneurs, and artists; discussions regarding the great books, great minds, and great resources; fun travel and field trip summaries; and practices and creative experiences that embody the TRUE, the GOOD, and the BEAUTIFUL life. Over 100 years ago, British educator, Charlotte Mason, declared that, "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life," and so today, I hope you will join me on this adventure in education.
ON THIS EPISODE
Can you remember a poem that you learned in Elementary School? Or a Bible verse from Sunday School? How about that speech you did in 9th Grade History class?
Today I’m going to mix things up and start us off with our segment on the GOOD as I talk about some helpful habits to assist you and your students in memorizing material or practicing physical skills. Following that, I have an intriguing conversation with David Mathwin, the Dean of Students and History teacher at Ad Fontes Academy in Centreville, Virginia, the place where I first heard and learned about Classical Education. For our TRUE and BEAUTIFUL segments, Dave will share with us his philosophy on teaching and how he uses elements of BEAUTY to inspire and instill in his students the TRUTHS of History and life. So put your thinking caps on and let’s delve in!
Our Favorite Resources:
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning by James Lang Home Education Series Bundle by Charlotte Mason The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary by Matthieu Pageau A Study of History, Volume 1: Abridgement of Vol. 1-6 by Arnold Toynbee The Histories by Polybius The Histories by Herodotus
COMMONPLACE QUOTES
If you restudy something after failing to recall it, you actually learn it better than if you had not tried to recall it. The effort of retrieving knowledge or skills strengthens its staying power and your ability to recall it in the future. - Make It Stick, p. 203
. . . [it is often assumed that] a baseball player who practices batting by swinging at fifteen fastballs, then at fifteen curveballs, and then at fifteen change-ups will perform better than the player who mixes it up. But the player who asks for random pitches during practice builds his ability to decipher and respond to each pitch as it comes his way, and he becomes the better hitter." - Make It Stick, p. 206
Mixing up problem types and specimens improves your ability to discriminate between types, identify the unifying characteristics within a type, and improves your success in a later test or in real-world settings where you must discern the kind of problem you're trying to solve in order to apply the correct solution." - Make It Stick, pp. 206-207
Here, too, is a subject which should be to the child an inexhaustible storehouse of ideas, should enrich the chambers of his House Beautiful with a thousand tableaux, pathetic and heroic, and should form in him, insensibly, principles whereby he will hereafter judge of the behavior of nations, and will rule his own conduct as one of a nation. This is what the study of history should do for the child. . . - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 279
Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot upon which our curriculum turns. History is the rich pasture of the mind – which increases upon the knowledge of men and events and, more than all, upon the sense of nationhood . . .” - Charlotte Mason, Volume 6: A Philosophy
1 hr 9 min