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Dewey Decimal Number: 371.0420973 EAN: 9780393047523 Edition: Later Printing ISBN: 0393047520 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 764 Publication Date: August 01, 1999 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: Teach your child at home or supplement his or her classroom learning --this book provides you with the techniques, curriculum, and resources necessary to ensure that your child's education is the best it can be. As a parent, you worry about your child's education. With thirty students per classroom, even the most dedicated teachers often can't give each student the individual attention so urgently needed, and neither teachers nor parents can control the social environment of many schools. Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? Maybe it's time to take charge of your child's education --by doing it yourself. This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school; one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Through a language-intensive process that organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind, your child will receive the complete education that today's overcrowded schools are often unable to provide. You do have control over what and how your child learns; The Well-Trained Mind will give you the tools you'll need to teach him or her with confidence and success. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Public School Educational Paradigm on SteroidsThe Well-Trained Mind (TWTM) is a detailed "how-to" manual for a popular reinterpretation of classical home schooling. I say reinterpretation because the authors base their recommendations on three chronological stages of child development that they correlate to the first three skills of the ancient classical trivium. They call grades 1-4 the grammar stage, grades 5-8 the logic stage, and grades 9-12 the rhetoric stage. The ancient classical model did not follow these artificial gradations, but ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent, excellent book!One of the most thorough books I have seen on how to do Classical Homeschool. This is such a practical book, the curriculum recommendations are great, thorough but not overwhelming. I currently teach at a Classical Homeschool Co-op program and gained some insight into my kids from this, as well as great ideas for my own, who are preschool age. Also, for those of you who are not looking to homeschool from a distinctly Christian perspective, this book is written for everyone. Rating: - Just what I needed.I have been interested in the classical method of homeschooling since I started 2 years ago. This is THE book for me. The descriptions are very detailed and fairly easy to follow. The list for reading are great. I only wish my local library had more of them. The only thing I would change about the book is that the listings for materiels needed are after each subject instead of grouped at the end of each section. Rating:  - OverwhelmingI think this book tries to overwhelm someone trying to teach their child. I can't imagine a child being happy being taught so rigorously and will be isolated and overstressed with such intense hours of school. (A lot of public and private schools have the same problem) I don't trust the advice of teaching about all religions at such young ages. They need to be grounded in their own culture and religion first. I'd get a simpler construct of a classical education or you'll go nuts. Also, read John ... Read More Rating: - The Well-Trained MindI am a certified teacher with a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. This book is an excellent reference book for teaching using the classical education method. The resources in this book are invaluable! From schedules, to internet links, to subject studies, and clear definitions; this book has it all. I borrowed it from the library at first. Then when I read it, I decided to buy it so I can refer back to it. I found the "How to do it" sections fantastic (especially the advice given on ... Read More |
