Beautiful Teaching Conference Videos

Music has a call and response nature, just as the trivium has a call and response nature. The harmonious nature and intellectual activities of the trivium matter. Understanding the musical modes of the trivium and the art of narration as a unified melodious activity frees both the teacher and the students to engage more deeply with ideas. Discover how narration is the voice of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectics. 

Learn how to make narration the foundational pedagogy for your classroom and allow it to transform your composition curriculum. This session will discuss practical strategies for integrating narration across the curriculum and for developing a writing curriculum that centers on written narrations.

This talk considers the intersection of Greek paideia, the ancient Christian church, and Charlotte Mason’s plan for education in early 20th century England. Drawing on St. John Chrysostom’s seminal address on educating children, we will see several forms of narration throughout.

Narration has many modes that can and should be practiced at all levels. Discover these variations within a framework that helps students progress from beginner to advanced levels of fluency.

Explore how narration can be flexibly and compassionately adapted for special needs learners, without sacrificing the beauty and richness of the method. Whether your child has ADHD, dyslexia, speech delays, autism, or other learning differences, this talk will offer practical encouragement and tools to help narration become a joyful, confidence-building part of your homeschool or classroom day.

History is a living, engaging story from the past - but how do we help students to see this? Join Jonathan Fiore for a journey through the most vivid voices for the past and discover how to make history one of the most engaging parts of a 6th-12th grade curriculum, and in doing so how to integrate history into other subjects across the curriculum.

Narration is an ancient teaching practice, but that does not mean that modern learning science has nothing to say in its support. In this session, Jason Barney will review key research findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and show how they undergird a revival of the practice of narration. In addition, these findings offer important considerations for applying narration in the most effective ways to bring about durable learning. 

Adrienne explains the importance of being able to define the practical application of the transcendentals (truth, goodness, and beauty) and what they look like applied through the intellectual, moral, and physcial virtues of a child’s learning environment.

Kiernan Fiore presents on the importace of a logo-centric education and how to implement a joyful pedagogy. This session explores the meaning and centrality of living books as the center-piece for a holistic education.

Headmaster, John Heitzenrater discusses the problems and solutions of living in an unreal age and how administrators set the tone not only for learning, but, more importantly, for raising children to be conquerors of the jungle of lies and deceptions around them.

Mariah Martinez introduces two main branches of classical pedagogy - mimetic pedagogy and Socratic pedagogy. She explores ways in which they can be practically implemented in every classroom at any level.

Mariah intoduces the nature and purpose of recitation in the PreK-12 classroom with practical lesson examples for multiple age levels.

Aaron Mitchell examines the differing assumptions behind a Pre-Modern approach to Mathematics and a Post-Cartesian one. He uses Euclid as a model to explore practical ways to recover a more Classical form of Math instruction for K-12th students.

John Heitzenrater leads a session on why fantasy literature is important to a deep and meaningful education not only for all students, but especially for Christian students.