June 16-20, 2025
Teaching Essentials Workshop
The Heights School • Potomac, MD
Teaching Essentials
Teaching Essentials is a workshop for liberal arts teachers of all levels of experience. Especially useful for newer teachers, the workshop is also valuable to seasoned teachers who are new to the liberal arts and liberal arts teachers who want to rejuvenate their craft and pick-up new skills to bring into their classrooms.
Led by two veteran Heights teachers, the workshop blends instruction about teaching with instruction through teaching. Workshops on particular aspects of the teaching craft are supplemented by seminar discussions on great works that, in addition to being good and useful in themselves, touch on themes relevant to the work of a teacher.
Topics
- Lesson Planning: Year, Quarter, Month, Week, Day, Class Period
- A Teacher’s Classroom: Beauty and Utility
- Embodied Souls: Posture and Gesture in the Classroom
- Field Trips and Excursions
- Seminar and Socratic Discussion: Age Appropriate Reading of Good and Great Books
- Coaching in Class: Public Speaking and Acting
- Grading
- Coaching One-on-One: Writing and Book Discussions
Examples include...
- Cicero’s De Amicitia
- Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
- The Magna Carta
- A Euclidean Proof
- Selected Short Stories
Faculty
Meet the teachers who will be leading the workshop.
Austin Hatch
Tom Steenson
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Registration Cost: $950. Registration includes breakfast and lunch during the week, along with printed materials for the workshop and a custom Forum notebook. Please note that the workshop is limited to 18 participants in order to allow for personal attention.
RegisterQuestions? Contact nate@heightsforum.org with any inquiries.