A chalkboard or whiteboard, a map, a timeline, cards, and accessories like playing cards or poker chips are all we need. Instead, I desire for tutors to use simple, inexpensive tools to explain concepts.
Instead, the tutor builds a personal relationship with the students, engages, guides, and leads the community through ideas, questions, forms, examples, and illustrations. These products-such as the memory work resource CDs 1 Foundations Cycle 1 2 Foundations Cycle 2 3 Foundations Cycle 3, the interactive tutorial in CC Connected, and the app-are wonderful tools for parents to use at home, but these digital tools are not designed for use in the classroom on Community Day. I am excited by the quality of the review resources that the Classical Conversations Multimedia team has created. On Community Day, my desire is for tutors at all levels to spend the day modeling and discussing rather than showing media presentations. Use Technology at Home, Build Relationships in CommunityĪt Classical Conversations, we want to use technology wisely so that it enhances our knowledge and skills instead of doing our thinking for us. I believe this system results in children forming attachments with peers who often steer them toward foolishness, rather than with adults who steer them toward maturity and wisdom. One of the concerns I raised in my book, The Core, is that students in the modern education system do not get to spend enough quality time with caring adults. Minutes of effective modeling and dialogue are exponentially more effective than hours spent preparing a PowerPoint presentation to show in class. When teaching my own boys or when tutoring classical conversation students, I always ask myself this question: if I only had a stick and sand, could I engage and effectively dialogue with my students about the concept I want to teach them? Spend Time with Adults-Not Peers, Not MachinesĪsking this question helps us to rely more on modeling, dialogue, and relationship than on the false sense of accomplishment a flashy presentation can leave.
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