YMB #25 Teaching with Ideas: A Conversation with Brandy Vencel

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Your loving your Morning Time with your kids. You have gathered a feast for their minds with living books, poetry, scripture, and Shakespeare, but something is missing. Where are all the deep meaningful conversations you had hoped to have with your children about the big ideas of life?

In this episode, Brandy Vencel joins us to talk about the marriage between facts and ideas, how to draw out big ideas from your living book read alouds using good questions. She encourages us to be patient as we introduce the ideas of virtue to our children.

She also talks about more practical issues such as how to introduce virtues without moralizing, how and why to choose the best literature when introducing big ideas, and which ideas might be more accessible for different ages.

Join us as Brandy helps us tackle the idea of ideas in our Morning Time.

For show notes and episode downloads, visit https://pambarnhill.com/ymb25/.

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0:00.0	This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day.
0:17.8	Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 25 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I am Pam Barnhill,
0:25.0	your host, and I'm so happy you're joining me here today. Well, today's conversation has been a long time in
0:32.3	coming. I'm getting to chat with Brandy Vinsall, who as many of you know is a really good friend of mine.
0:38.5	And ever since your morning basket, the podcast, was just kind of a long list of topics.
0:44.0	We have had this topic on our list of things to do.
0:47.4	And I knew Brandy was the person I wanted to come and chat with me about it.
0:51.1	The idea is teaching with ideas. Don't you love that? The idea is ideas.
0:57.3	And for a long time in my head, this topic was facts versus ideas. But Brandy has corrected me and
1:04.9	said, no, no, it doesn't have to be one or the other, even though one of the hallmarks of a Charlotte
1:10.2	Mason education and a lot of
1:11.9	what we do in morning time is teaching with ideas. It doesn't necessarily mean we're doing this
1:17.2	and askewing the facts. They actually work in combination, but we're focusing more on the ideas.
1:23.8	And that's something we're doing in our morning time reading, our morning time narrations, and our morning time conversations. So I stand corrected. It's not facts versus ideas,
1:34.0	but instead teaching with ideas. It was a fun and fascinating conversation and I think
1:40.7	you're really going to enjoy it.
1:51.5	Randy Venzel blogs at Afterthoughts,
1:54.2	and she's also the author of Start Here,
1:56.9	a journey through Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles.
2:00.0	She is a member of the Ambleside Online Auxiliary,
2:05.7	and she has homeschooled her four children using the Charlotte Mason method for over 12 years.
2:19.5	In season one of your morning basket, Brandy joined us to discuss reading aloud during morning time, and during the course of that interview, she touched on the concept of facts versus ideas, how living books can help us spark our children's interest and imagination by pairing factual information with these big ideas. And so she joins us
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