Charlotte Mason described the role of the teacher as being a guide in the lessons.

That involves a shift in our thinking sometimes, because usually that's not the way we were taught when we were growing up.

We were taught that the teacher is the fountain head of all knowledge.

So what does it look like for the teacher, the parent, to be a guide, and especially in math lessons?

That's where we want to focus today.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Joining me today is Rochelle Babordana.

We're going to talk about the teacher being a guide in the math lessons and how that looks. I love, as we've discussed this,

you had some great ideas of how the teacher, the parent, can guide the child in the math lessons. So just talk for a minute

about what that means and how a guide might be different from what we assume the teacher's

role should be. From standing at a board and delivering a lecture. Yes, yes. So when I was thinking about this, I was just thinking

about because I love to hike. So I was thinking about if I went someplace new to hike, someplace

that was a little more strenuous, maybe a little bit had a larger scope than what I'm used to,

my little hikes around the back of the house.

I was thinking about what I would look for in a guide of, say, I were going to the Swiss Alps or the Smoky Mountains.

And I love the ideas that we were discussing earlier.

So let's just walk through them and you can share them with our listeners, all right?

You talked about how the guide's attitude is so important in that role as a guide.

Talk a little bit about that.

So as the parent-teacher, we might not have had a good experience with math ourselves growing up,

but that doesn't mean we need to bring that experience into our child's math lesson.

So we want to have a good attitude toward math

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