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Ways To Use The Logic Seminar…
Format…
The Logic Seminar is very versatile and flexible to your particular needs and students.
- Individual Study: Perfect for college-aged or adults who want to increase their discernment. Go through it at your own pace, but use the Teacher Guide to help with Objectives and particular Lesson Notes.
- Homeschool: Using the Teacher Guide and Student Workbook, the student follows it as a standard elective.
- Family Time: Watch the video lessons together as a family, with the parents using the Teacher Guide for objectives that they should be emphasizing and making sure the children understand. Everyone would have a workbook, and compare notes. The parents would use the quizzes as a question sheet to ask and verbally quiz the family together.
- Co-op: Watch the video lesson together, while each student has their own workbook and quiz pack; alternately, the teacher could ask the quizzes to the group orally and make it a group learning session.
Days…
While the Teacher Guide contains many great notes for the Teacher regarding the Lessons, presents clear objectives, and breaks the Lessons down into a 23 day schedule, the day schedule is only a suggested way of breaking it down. Some people do one day from the Teacher Guide per week, while other do two TG days per week. If your student is having difficulty absorbing the information, you may need to do only 1 or 2 lessons per day; however, in their case, you may want to do more than one day per week to help them retain as much information and terms without forgetting.
Curriculum Updates and Clarification
- Test 1, the answer for question 8 should be “Abstraction” (See Lesson 12); however, if the student puts “Division”, it is very similar, but you will want to emphasize that “Abstraction” is the closest correct answer as far as terminology.
- Test 1, the answer for question 9 should be “Secondary” (See Lesson 7 or 9).
- Test 1, the answer for question 10 can be found in the workbook Lesson 9, middle of page.
- Test 1, the answer for question 24 should be “Obscure” since it is correct in terminology; however, the student may understandably write down “Imperfect”, which is also similar in terminology.
What To Avoid…
Since this course is designed to rehearse and build mental skills, exercise the senses, and generally help the student think about thinking, it is best to avoid the student being involved in regular activities that promote the opposite or nullifying effect. Whatever mental skills and senses your student exercises the most will be what they become better at. If your student spends equal or greater time involved in mental-neutral activities such as television watching, computer games, video games, etc. during the course of this seminar program, you may not notice any improvement in your student’s discernment. Be aware of what they are spending the greater time rehearsing. See our video “Building Thinking Skills In Young People” for more on this topic.