The desire to continue strengthening weaker areas so as to meet personal goals.Īn awareness of struggles, and the beginning of self-coping skills rather than a reliance on my accommodations. Greater ability to make connections between bits of information. While it may be true that we work harder here at home that others, or that my load as the lead learner is possibly increased due to needing to present information in more tangible and varied ways, CC has been entirely workable in a homeschool with special needs ranging from dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADD, central auditory processing disorder, and cognitive deficits.Ī huge boost in the confidence my kids who sometimes struggle to feel successful in learning. Actually, the direct opposite has been true. Classical Conversations, with its focus on memorizing, drilling, and consuming vast amounts of information, seemed like a nightmare for my kiddos who learn differently. I’ve also learned that sometimes, the boxes have a funny way of overlapping, or that the skills needed to make the leap from one box to another can be sufficiently weak as to make it necessary for one foot to stay behind while the other nudges ahead.
Knowing what I’ve learned about students with learning challenges, I know that often, those neat little boxes just don’t fit in the standard timeframes. The Rhetoric Stage: The stage in which Grammar and Logic are synthesized, and the focus is on communicating truth in a winsome, compelling manner. This stage takes advantage of a student’s need to know why, and how, which sets the stage for… The Logic Stage: The physiological changes in this period of brain growth translate into growing reasoning ability. The Grammar Stage: This stage takes advantage of a young child’s joy in being exposed to new information by naming and memorizing all the moving parts of their world, building the foundation for… I had done my initial homework on the Classical Education and knew what it entailed: In my mind, I pictured handing over control of our curriculum to some outside force- a force who had no idea what the strengths and weaknesses of my individual children might be, a force that valued adherence to a method over needs. Knowing this is what led me away from CC rather than toward it, I’ll be honest. At least it feels that way! Add in my experience of homeschooling a large family and meeting their individual needs, and I’ve discovered a deeper truth: researching, implementing, and tweaking curricula is part of my job, whether your kids have learning challenges or not.
The longer is answer is that I’m surprised, too.Īfter nearly two decades of homeschooling-many of them spent as a curriculum writer, consultant, and reviewer- I’m familiar with a huge swath of the greater homeschool market. Due to the fact that CC has a reputation amongst homeschoolers for moving quickly, being rigorous, and not being as flexible as many cooperative learning settings, how, we’re asked, is that whole CC thing possibly working for you? We’ve been open about the fact that several of our children have learning differences that would be IEP-worthy in an institutional school setting. Since joining our Classical Conversations community three years ago, I’ve heard from quite a few fellow homeschoolers expressing surprise that CC is a fit for our family.
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