Our aim here at A Delectable Education is to encourage and equip families to implement an authentic interpretation of Charlotte Mason’s life-giving method. We hope that our new tool, Curriculum Templates, will enable individual families to build their own Charlotte Mason curriculum.
A Delectable Education has spent hundreds of hours researching and acquiring the specific knowledge teachers need regarding the content of each subject, which subjects are offered at each age level, how each subject is presented, and the quantity and frequency of specific lessons in Miss Mason’s balanced curriculum. They have taken the guesswork out of this massive gathering of information and have now distilled the basics for teachers. The ADE Curriculum Templates help teachers build their individual curriculum with confidence that no part of the feast is neglected nor are they over-scheduled or under-achieved. Form by form, each subject is presented with the relevant details necessary to plan a cohesive and comprehensive school year.
Each Curriculum Template:
- Outlines the scope for that Form (or Forms)
- Goes subject by subject
- Includes links to resources for training as well as content
- Shows ideal lesson lengths and frequency
- Provides detailed explanations of what content should be covered in each subject area
- Please note, the only specific book recommendations included in the template are those that Miss Mason consistently assigned year after year for that particular subject
No family must feel bound to a box curriculum, or one-size-fits-all programs anymore as long as the teacher is willing to put a personal plan together with the guidance that this curriculum builder provides. All essential background information for making the wisest selection for living books is included. With the download, you will be able to use these templates year after year for children in all forms. As you grow in your experience and knowledge and your children grow and develop, these templates give an ongoing baseline from which to organize your ever-changing school needs.
It is possible to gather and organize your school lessons on your own, though full consultation appointments are still available from ADE when you need individual guidance for specific book choices in combining multiple ages, accommodating special learning challenges, and where other unique circumstances requiring assistance is helpful. Additionally, “Curriculum Reviews” are available after you’ve worked through the template and chosen books if you’d like feedback on the choices you’ve made. Please note that the Curriculum Review Consultation is a one-time service and does not include the year-long email support and follow up help as the full consultation service provides.
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Curriculum Templates
Our aim here at A Delectable Education is to encourage and equip families to implement an authentic interpretation of Charlotte Mason’s life-giving method. We hope that our new tool, Curriculum Templates, will […]
Sample pages from the Form I Curriculum Template:
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I appreciate these Curriculum Templates very much. Just one minor suggestions…could you add a field at the top of each page for the child’s name and maybe the school year date? Obviously I can write it in after I print them but when using the typeable fields and scheduling for several kids it would be helpful to have on the screen. Thank you!
That’s a great idea, Karen. I’ll make a note to add that the next time I update the templates.
Is it possible to use the templates when merging 4 Forms? Would they help me figure this puzzle out?
1 child Form I, 2 children Form II, 1 Child Form 5, 1 Child Form 6. This is transition year to CM for us. I have a consult scheduled for November, but still need to get started. Thank you for all these wonderful resources.
Noelle,
While they don’t explicitly give guidance about where to combine, I think you could use them in this way–when you see similar requirements, you could choose a book that would work for both Form 1 and 2 students, for example. The Form V and VI templates are actually combined, and I would suggest you follow the Form V guidelines for both–CM required a student complete 2 years of Form V work before attempting the Form VI work, and this is your first year following a CM program, so both would do Form V.
Emily
Do the templates give guidance for a history rotation? Would it say to cover certain periods of time during certain years? Is it a 6 year rotation or something less?
Emily,
They do lay out the history rotation we describe in our Episode 12: The Chronology of History. It is not a traditional rotation however, so when I say it’s a 4-year rotation, it is unlike the more typical 4-year rotations where all of history is covered every 4 years. It is layered, as most things in CM’s curriculum, going broader and deeper every pass through as the child expands his science of relations.
Emily
Thank you! I will listen to that episode next. I’ve picked a CM curriculum/outline for this year but am tweaking it. As I get more comfortable with the Mason Method I may try to use your templates to make my own for next year.
Do these include an editable schedule file (like an excel spreadsheet), or is it all pdf, pen-and-paper style scheduling?
While we do include the suggested frequency and duration of lessons, these templates are primarily tools for choosing books and materials to use for every subject. The templates are *editable* PDFs.
Is there more than one sample pages of what these forms are like?
I am going to give a brief review here, because I wish that I had known more about the templates before spending so much on them. Each subject in each form tells the duration and frequency of lessons to use (i.e. 3x per week, 40 minutes). Links for further study are included, many to podcasts on this website and a fair amount to more of the authors’ resources which you would also have to pay for. The vast majority of the links are not typed out and many do not include the title, so if the link is ever broken or you would like to keep a printed copy they become useless. There is a brief, bulleted overview of what you should cover for each subject for each year. For example, under the heading of Handicrafts one bullet might say “Study of design” or “Experiments to accompany the living science book used for experimental science should be regularly performed” with no more instruction for that particular piece of information. It is a template, so I get that it is meant to be brief, but I guess I thought that for the price it would go far more in depth. After the above sections (about one page per subject per form), there is one page of blank boxes to fill in your plan. And that is it! The whole package has 131 pages for which you spend $60. There are no cover or title pages to easily divide content between forms, just a disclaimer. I greatly appreciate the work these ladies do and it is a handy tool, but in my opinion *very* expensive for what you get.
Hello,
I am super interested but would love to see more sample pages first before I decide to purchase. Perhaps from Form II and a different subject?