Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child (Second Edition)

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♦ Increase your child’s academic success
♦ Restore your child’s love of learning
♦ Regain confidence to teach any child
♦ Renew your vision of hope for your child with special needs
♦ Receive help navigating the daunting process of receiving a diagnosis
♦ Learn how to modify existing resources for your child’s needs
♦ Find simple strategies any parent or teacher can implement immediately
♦ Appreciate a spiritual context for bringing truth, goodness, and beauty to any child

New features in this updated and expanded edition:

•  updated resources
•  more stories of real children
•  specific classroom and school strategies
•  additional words of encouragement
•  expanded references for school and home

Who Will Benefit From This Book?

• Parents of children with special needs. Whether the needs are mild and common, or more severe and complex. Some may not have heard of Classical Education, but they want the best possible education for their children. Others may be well-versed in Classical Education, but wonder whether their children with special needs can benefit from it. This book was written especially for you.
• Anyone interested in a straightforward explanation of Classical Christian Education. Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child offers an accessible description of Classical Education and its implementation.
• Teachers of special-needs students. Whether in a tutorial setting, classroom, cottage school setting, or homeschool, teachers of students with special needs will find encouragement, strategies, and resources in this book.
• Families who wish to homeschool their children with special needs. Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child offers support and recommendations from toddlerhood through high school.
• Parents who wonder whether a specific child might need further assessment. You will receive suggestions on informal and formal evaluations with screenings, charts, and tips for navigating the diagnostic process.
• Classical school headmasters and teachers who know they are not meeting the educational needs of some struggling students. Find support in these pages for bringing classical education to students with special needs, rather than ask such students not to return. Schools may wish to better integrate these students into classical classrooms or design a “school within a school” in which smaller classrooms (perhaps K-3 and 4-8) provide a much slower pace overall. With improved strategies and methods, struggling students can continue to receive a classical education.
• Anyone already engaged in the excellent pursuit of bringing classical Christian education to any child. This book is intended to encourage, inspire, and assist classroom teachers, homeschoolers, university professors, classical publishers, headmasters, and more.

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Simply Classical Curriculum

“Cheryl Swope ostensibly writes about special education, but she also makes one of the clearest and most compelling cases for classical education in print. I commend this book to parents and teachers of special-needs children, but also to anyone who desires a greater understanding of classical Christian education….If a child cannot accommodate the amount or depth of knowledge of most children, it is not less but more important that what he learns to be of the highest quality. She implicitly understands St. Thomas Aquinas’ principle that the slightest knowledge of the greatest things is greater than the greatest knowledge of the slightest things.” – Martin Cothran