Charlotte Mason’s curriculum set appropriately short lessons in many varied subjects. Her programmes included timetables to help organize the short morning lessons. This episode is a discussion of how the teacher may prepare, predict, and plan for the upcoming term to accomplish covering the material. We call it forecasting–a flexible plan for success, a term Charlotte Mason probably would have appreciated.
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“The teacher’s part is, in the first place, to see what is to be done, to look over the work of the day in advance and see what mental discipline, as well as what vital knowledge, this and that lesson afford; and then to set such questions and such tasks as shall give full scope to his pupils’ mental activity.” (3/180-181)
“The children need your utmost freshness of mind and energy, so do not sit up late preparing lessons; what you seem to gain in preparation you lose by tiredness next day.” (The Story of Charlotte Mason, 150)
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