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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Teacher’s Guilt - Gregory RoperIn the middle of the fall semester, I find myself thinking back to the end of another school year, for it was the time that changed my teaching for good — and, I believe, for the better. Read more... Teaching Girls and Boys Differently - ZenitBoys and girls have marked physical and psychological differences and hence they have to be educated differently. This is the thesis of a book published earlier this year by psychologist and family doctor Leonard Sax. Read more... Teaching Maturity and Considerateness at Home - JAMES STENSONJames Stenson provides a brief, but clear outline of what exactly we mean when we speak of maturity, why it is so important, and how to go about teaching it in the home and at school. Read more... Teaching the Virtues - William J. BennettWhen I was Secretary of Education under President Reagan, I visited an elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina. As I did at many of the 120 schools I visited during that period, I taught a lesson there on George Washington. Afterwards, I asked the kids if they had any questions, and one little guy raised his hand and asked, “Mr. Secretary, when you and President Reagan and the other people get together at meetings of the Cabinet, do you really eat Jelly Bellys?” Read more... Ten Things That Really Make a Difference - Laura M. BerquistHomeschooling is about raising children, forming them in the right way, academically and spiritually, and achieving these goals with the children's cooperation. Without the children's cooperation, these goals can't be achieved, because the goals are primarily realized in their hearts. So acquiring the cooperation of your children, in the right way, becomes a matter of grave importance. Read more... The Academy vs. the Humanities - Sir Frank KermodeAS a retired professor of English who now and again returns to teaching, I am aware that the work I try to do with my students has less and less in common with what is going on in adjacent classrooms. I regret being out of step, but it is too late to break the habits of a lifetime, and in any case I cannot believe that they are bad habits. Read more... The Adolescent Society - James S. ColemanIn one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the “Coleman Report”) and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high-school problem: “our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.” Read more... The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty - Vancouver Synod Study Commission on Teaching the FaithThe Breakdown of Morals and Christian Education - Étienne GilsonThe subject matter of this lecture is the relation which obtains between the liberal State and Christian education. By liberal State, we mean any state which does not set itself up as the ultimate end of its citizens. By Christian education, we mean the kind of education which is given in schools in which the whole life of both teachers and pupils is informed by the love of Christ. Read more... The Broken Covenant: Where Are You? - Ken DickThe aim of this lesson is to increase the students’ awareness of the human need for the savior. It is suitable for a grade 9 or 10 class and employs scenes from the movie Cast Away Instructional time will vary with the number of activities and objectives selected. A total class time of three hours is required for the teaching of all objectives included in the lesson. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 18-Nov-2008 - 19:25:21
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