Classics and Teaching

Gutta cavat lapidem.  
A tiny drop of water hollows out a stone.  (Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto 4.10.5)

Exegi monumentum aere perennius.
I have constructed a monument more enduring than bronze.  (Horace, Odes 3.30.1.)

Resources for Latin, Ancient Greek, and Classics Pedagogy

https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/classicsandteaching/Classics+and+Teaching

The Department of Classics, Tufts University

http://ase.tufts.edu/classics


1.  Professional Organizations:
The American Classical League (A.C.L.)

http://www.aclclassics.org

The American Philological Association (A.P.A.)

http://www.apaclassics.org/        

The Classical Association of New England (C.A.N.E.)

http://www.caneweb.org

The Classical Association of Massachusetts  (C.A.M.)

http://www.massclass.org          

The Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MAFLA)

http://www.mafla.org 

The National Committee to Promote Latin and Greek

http://www.promotelatin.org


2.  Employment Resources:

American Classical League teacher placement service (free):

http://spectrum.troy.edu/~acl/jobs1.htm

Carney Sandoe independent school placement agency:

http://www.carneysandoe.com

3.  State Licensure:

The Department of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

http://www.doe.mass.edu/educators 

4.  Electronic social network:

Latinteach Listserve, methodologies, articles, blogspot

http://www.latinteach.com

http://www.latinteach.com/Site/articles/articles.html

http://latinteach.blogspot.com

Laura Gibbs Bestiara Latina blog with twitter/widget instructions

http://bestlatin.blogspot.com

Laura Gibbs Latin via Fables Aesopus using wiki and ning

http://aesopus.ning.com

Bolchazy Carducci Publishers blog

http://www.bcpublishers.blogspot.com

5.  Electronic Materials and Resources for the classroom:

Perseus Digital Library

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

NoDictionaries

http://nodictionaries.com

The Latin Library

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com

Boston Museum of Fine Arts collection database

http://www.mfa.org

or

http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=19

Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts collection database            

http://www.metmuseum.org

or           

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/collection_database/listview.aspx?page=1&sort=0&sortdir=&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=0&dd2=0&vw=1

Diotoma (gender studies)

http://www.stoa.org/diotima

Vindolanda Tablets (Roman Britain)

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

Classics at University of Kentucky

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/welcome.html

Classics at Tufts University

http://ase.tufts.edu/classics

6.  Traditional Materials and Resources for the classroom:

The American Classical League (A.C.L.)

http://www.aclclassics.org

C.A.N.E.  Instructional Materials

http://www.canepress.org

The Greek Teachers' Corner (Gil Lawall)

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~glawall/grkteach.html

The Greek Institute, Cambridge, MA

 http://www.thegreekinstitute.org

 Boston Area Classics Calendar

 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar.html

Massachusetts Junior Classical League

http://www.massjcl.org

National Junior Classical League

http://www.njcl.org

The Teaching Company lectures on DVD

http://www.teach12.com

Applause Language Teaching Resources

http://www.applauselearning.com

Incentives for students

http://shop.cafepress.com/latin

The Open University lectures (free) through iTunes U

7.  Continuing education:

The CANE Summer Institute

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/cane09.html

Webinars from Bolchazy Carducci Publishers:

http://www.bolchazy.com/webinars.html

Laura Gibbs' Web2.0 slideshows:

http://bestlatin.blogspot.com/2009/07/webinar-slideshows-july-31.html

Workshops for teaching AP Latin (Advanced Placement) courses

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_latinlit.html?latinlit

Summer AP collegeboard workshops at the Taft School, Conn.

http://www.taftschool.org/tecThe Vergilian Society

http://www.vergil.clarku.edu

7.  Texts about pedagogical theory:

Anderson, Lorin W. and Krathwohl, David. A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing :  a revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives   (Longman 2001).

LB17 .T29 2001

Gardner, Howard.  Frames of mind : the theory of multiple intelligences [with a new introduction by the author]  (BasicBooks 1993). 

BF431 .G244 1993

Gruber-Miller, John.  When Dead Tongues Speak:  Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin(American Philological Association 2006). 

PA74 .W47 2006

Joyal, Mark et al., ed.  Greek and Roman education : a sourcebook (Routledge 2009).

LA71 .J69 2009

LaFleur, Richard A.  Latin for the 21st Century (Scott Foresman 1998). 

PA2065.U5 L37 1998

Too, Yun Lee, ed.  Education in Greek and Roman antiquity  (Brill 2001). 

LA71 .E38 2001

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  1. Aug 04

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