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Andrew Selby is the Latin Department Chair and a teacher in the Upper School at Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, California. He serves as a National Alcuin Board Fellow and is the chapter leader of Alcuin West. Andrew is a graduate of the Torrey
Honors College Great Books program at Biola University. He has both his MA (University of Toronto) and PhD (Baylor University) in Historical Theology, focusing on the writings and thought of the church fathers, especially those of Ambrose and Augustine. Currently, he researches the progymnasmata, an ancient writing curriculum forming the basis of Classical Composition, a publication of Memoria Press originally created by his father, Jim Selby. Andrew also conducts teacher training in Classical Composition and classical curriculum and pedagogy generally.
A panel of scholars will lead attendees through a reading and discussion of two key passages on education — one from Plato and another from Augustine — that form the basis for what we now refer to as the Socratic method. Come ready to practice the very habits we aim to instill in our own students.
Participants will learn from primary sources what “Socratic instruction” actually is. Workshop leaders will also model how to lead a class discussion; attendees will see and experience firsthand how to lead a discussion through great texts. The exercise is also valuable model that can be replicated in the school’s in-house faculty development session.
Andrew Selby is the Latin Department Chair and a teacher in the Upper School at Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, California. He serves as a National Alcuin Board Fellow and is the chapter leader of Alcuin West. Andrew is a graduate of the Torrey
Honors College Great Books program at Biola University. He has both his MA (University of Toronto) and PhD (Baylor University) in Historical Theology, focusing on the writings and thought of the church fathers, especially those of Ambrose and Augustine. Currently, he researches the progymnasmata, an ancient writing curriculum forming the basis of Classical Composition, a publication of Memoria Press originally created by his father, Jim Selby. Andrew also conducts teacher training in Classical Composition and classical curriculum and pedagogy generally.