Do you need help getting new teachers settled in the classroom? Do you need resources to assist first year teachers as they work toward provisional certification from ACCS? The Classical Teaching Institute has a program that can help.  

Many classical Christian school administrators are stretched thin and lack the time to support new teachers as they navigate certification and classroom challenges. The CTI Teacher Cohort is designed to fill that gap and to assist with ACCS provisional teacher certification by offering first-year teachers practical guidance, classical training, and support throughout the school year.

Headmasters who enroll their teachers in the CTI Teacher Cohort can be confident that young teachers will:

• Pace their certification work so that it isn’t rushed in May.

• Get more out of the time they put into certification work. 

• Get face time with veteran teachers who can coach them through the process of writing strong, compelling statements on what they’re learning about classical education.

• Get support for all the many questions, concerns, and frustrations that come with the first year.

What the Cohort Offers

The CTI Teacher Cohort is a one-year program which supports young teachers by offering training in classical pedagogy and helping them gain provisional teacher certification in an ACCS-accredited school.  

The program includes: 

• Monthly Zoom calls from September through April to discuss John Milton Gregory’s The Seven Laws of Teaching and Habits of the Household by Justin Whitmel Earley plus a monthly topic related to pedagogy, classroom management, assessment, etc. See the schedule below.

• Assistance in writing and editing a response to John Milton Gregory’s The Seven Laws of Teaching. 

• Assistance in writing and editing a response to Habits of the Household by Justin Whitmel Earley. 

• Assistance in writing and editing a position paper on the author’s philosophy of classical Christian education.   

• Assistance in writing and editing a position paper on classical Christian pedagogy.   

Cohort members will also have shared access to a Canvas page where they can post questions about the classes they are teaching, lectures they are delivering, books they are reading, assessments they are giving, and receive prompt, individualized responses. 

Upon satisfactorily completing the program, teachers will receive a certificate of completion.   

Schedule

All Classes Meet on Wednesdays at 8:00 PM EST

In each of the following sessions, we will spend time discussing The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory and Habits of the Household by Justin Earley in addition to the following topics:

September 10: Writing a Classroom Catechism 

October 22: Principles of Classroom Governance 

November 12: Assessment   

December 10: Grading 

January 14: Common Early-Career Mistakes 

February 18: How to Teach “Writing” 

March 25: The 3-Word Lesson Plan for Humanities Teachers 

April 22: Explaining Classical Education to Students, Parents, Coworkers, and Administrators

Cost

$800