Well, I kept saying that I was going to write a series on becoming a CM teacher, and when I said it, I meant it. I spent a lot of Holy Week sitting in the sun, perfecting my tan {!}, and reading The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley.
My first post on this subject was actually a few weeks ago when I wrote my original Learning how to Live. {If you haven’t read it, click on over and do so!} At that time, I was specifically thinking about the Mother’s Education Course. I still think the MEC gives us a lot of insight into what Charlotte Mason thought was a priority when it came to the education of homeschooling moms.
But walking through the pages of Miss Mason’s biography has opened an entire world to me. For this series, I want to look at how Miss Mason continued her own education, how she trained her teachers, how they continued their own education, in addition to the MEC. Once we look at all of that, I think we’ll be ready to consider how we can best self-educate in the context of our modern lives with all its attendant pressures and expectations.
Interspersed with all of this, there are also some guests posts, where real homeschool moms explain how they go about continuing their education in the midst of life’s daily grind.
Learning how to Live Series Index:
- Learning how to Live {original post}
- Learning how to Live: Upcoming Series! ← you are here
- The Self-Education of Miss Charlotte Mason
- Share Your Passions {a guest post from the DHM}
- At College with Charlotte Mason
- Reading Hamlet with my Daughters {a guest post from Silvia Cachia}
- A Note on Lectures at the Ambleside Teachers’ College
- It’s Never Too Late {a guest post by Jen Snow}
- Confessions of a Lifelong Learner {a guest post by Dawn Duran}
- A Brief History of Charlotte Mason’s Mothers’ Education Course
- Learning how to Grow {a guest post by Mystie Winckler}
- Charlotte Mason’s Mother’s Education Course: The Content
- On Mother Culture
- Magazines as Continuing Education
- Local Group Meetings and Conferences for Continuing Education
- Becoming a Charlotte Mason Teacher in a Utilitarian World
- A Mama’s Continuing Education: Oh, the Endless Possibilities!
- How She Learns: My Personal Continuing Education Journey
I’m excited to read this and possibly use it with my teachers and parents at the CM co-op I direct! This, along with CMI’s “Mson’s Alveary” curriculum could be a a winning combination for imparting this radically different paradigm to 21st century educators.
I hope you enjoy it! If you ever get your hands on that biography from Chomondeley, it is certainly worth reading. 🙂