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To be considered well-educated, we must learn to express our ideas eloquently in conversation. The goal of our lively discussions will be to prepare students for college and later life when clear, collaborative inquiry will yield tremendous dividends. We pursue this goal by practicing: Wrestling with big questions as a group Once we learn to read deeply, we find the need to evaluate and expand upon what we’ve learned. To this end, we learn to think more clearly by using the Trivium and other tools: From Aristotle’s Organon via the Trivium Deductive and inductive reasoning Fill your student’s summer with fun, active learning that feeds curiousity, builds skills, and opens new vistas all while walking through our lovely parks. Spend time with peers reading and discussing literature and history and making art. Learn a lot more about these camps here Fill your student’s summer with fun, active learning that feeds curiousity, builds skills, and opens new vistas all while walking through our lovely parks. Learn a lot more about these camps here Quite simply, nearly everyone, talented and challenged, learns best by being tutored one on one. In the past, this was too expensive for most people to afford. Now, it’s affordable to you.
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refer to it here: http://mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-two-sigma.pdf The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring Benjamin S. Bloom Educational Researcher, Vol. 13, No. 6. [...] Classical tutoring for homeschoolers from an experienced teacher. writer, and lover of history. I work from Bainbridge Island, WA serving Kitsap, Jefferson, and King counties in person and the entire world via Skype. Working via Skype allows for real discussion without all the keyboard time. We can focus on learning to read, think, and write, not on [...] We offer a variety of summer camps and classes for middle an high school boys on Bainbridge Island focused on activating their minds and bodies by connecting them with adventurous readings. Learn more here Fill your student’s summer with fun, active learning that feeds curiousity, builds skills, and opens new vistas all while walking through our lovely parks. Learn a lot more about these camps here “In order to assure a certain progress in this reading, consider what hours you have free from the school and the exercises of the school. Give about two of them, every day, to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, [...] Literally, the walking around school led by Aristotle. Imagine Aristotle leading discussions with his students as they wandered the grounds of the Lyceum in Athens. Imagine Thomas Jefferson walking in the woods around Monticello late each afternoon after a long day of studying. He suggested his nephew, Peter Carr, take such walks. Now, imagine your own child, [...] |
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