The Well-Trained Mind, 4th Edition

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The Well-Trained Mind, 4th Edition, will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school―one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Veteran home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child’s mind and comprises three stages: the elementary school “grammar stage,” when the building blocks of information are absorbed through memorization and rules; the middle school “logic stage,” in which the student begins to think more analytically; and the high-school “rhetoric stage,” where the student learns to write and speak with force and originality. Using this theory as your model, you’ll be able to instruct your child―whether full-time or as a supplement to classroom education―in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. Hardbound. 848 pages.

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Thousands of parents and teachers have already used the detailed book lists and methods described in The Well-Trained Mind to create a truly superior education for the children in their care. This extensively revised fourth edition contains completely updated curricula and book lists, links to an entirely new set of online resources, new material on teaching children with learning challenges, cutting-edge math and sciences recommendations, answers to common questions about home education, and advice on practical matters such as standardized testing, working with your local school board, designing a high-school program, preparing transcripts, and applying to colleges.

For those who are familiar with the earlier editions, here’s a list of the major changes:

◾ Completely updated book and curricula recommendations.

◾ Extensive additional material on teaching children with learning disabilities. An entirely new set of online resources, coordinated with the book, which will be located at welltrainedmind.com. These include:

◾Out of the Box: additional resources for children who don’t fit the traditional K-12 progression—because they have leapt ahead, are dealing with learning challenges, or simply process information differently.

◾Apps and More: a continuously updated list of popular apps, web-based learning games, and online enrichment activities, all in line with the classical principles described in the book.

◾More Options: alternative curricula to top recommendations, not included in the book because they were too complicated, expensive, specialized or quirky—but all of which have enthusiastic support among many veteran home schoolers. Brand-new maths and sciences chapters. Shift of quickly outdated appendices online. Each chapter has been separated into two sections.

Hardbound. 848 pages.

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