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VCA FACULTY MEMBERS PRESENT AT NCCA CONFERENCE
The North Carolina Classical Association supports the teaching of Latin, classical literature, and Greco-Roman history, combining faculty of K-12 and higher education institutions in North Carolina.
VCA Logic and Rhetoric faculty, Mrs. Heidi Dean and Dr. Nathan Sundt, recently offered presentations to their peers at the conference.
Mrs. Dean presented strategies for enhancing student learning through a style of pedagogy (“Active Latin“) that allows students to move and produce Latin—a more kinetic and natural type of learning. Her session was entitled, “Active Learning in the Classroom (K-8).”
Dr. Sundt made the case for how the meticulous work of parsing early in Latin learning pays off in developing an authentic grasp of Latin’s deep structure later on—the only way properly to imitate standard modern language acquisition with languages that, like Latin and Greek, are in literary form. His session was entitled, “The Payoff of Parsing: Principles and Practices for Classics Classrooms.”
The NCCA provided another opportunity for our faculty both to lead and learn with others in the field.
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