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Author Bauer, Susan Wise, author.

Title The well-trained mind : a guide to classical education at home / Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Parent Collection  J PS 371.04 BAUER    DUE 04-16-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  PARENTING J 373.241 BAUER    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  371.042 BAU    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  371.042 BAU    DUE 04-16-24
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  649.68 BAU    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Children  JPS Homeschooling 371.042 WIS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  PARENT 371.04 BA    Check Shelf
Edition Fourth edition.
Description xxvii, 816 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an 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. Home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind and comprises three stages: the elementary school "grammar stage," when the building blocks of information are absorbed through memorization and rules; the middle school "logic stage," in which the student begins to think more analytically; and the high-school "rhetoric stage," where the student learns to write and speak with force and originality. Using this theory as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child -- whether full-time or as a supplement to classroom education -- in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. This edition contains updated curricula and book lists, links to an entirely new set of online resources, new material on teaching children with learning challenges, math and sciences recommendations, answers to common questions about home education, and advice on practical matters such as standardized testing, working with your local school board, designing a high-school program, preparing transcripts, and applying to colleges.
Contents What The well-trained mind does: An overview -- Practical considerations: Using The well-trained mind without losing your own -- Supplementing your child's education: The well-trained mind and full-time school -- Prologue: The story of a classical home education -- The grammar stage: Kindergarten through fourth grade -- The logic stage: Fifth grade through eighth grade -- The rhetoric stage: Ninth grade through twelfth grade -- Coming home: How to educate your child at home -- Appendix: Taking an oral history.
Subject Classical education -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Home schooling -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Education, Humanistic -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Education -- Parent participation -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
EDUCATION -- Home Schooling.
EDUCATION -- Parent Participation.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Education.
Classical education. (OCoLC)fst00863477
Education, Humanistic. (OCoLC)fst00903134
Education -- Parent participation. (OCoLC)fst00902710
Home schooling. (OCoLC)fst00959374
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
Handbooks and manuals.
Added Author Wise, Jessie, author.
ISBN 9780393253627 (hardcover)
0393253627 (hardcover)
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