I have been asked whether The Teaching Company tapes could be used for younger students. In a nutshell, if a student is INTERESTED, then they may not be too young. The Teaching Company does have some high school level courses, but I never tried them. I’m sure those would be appropriate for many younger people (junior high level). In general, if a student is interested, I recommend feeding their interests.I don’t recommend The Teaching Company religion courses. The CS Lewis is a wonderful series, however. Some of the arts classes do have nudes. I’m sure the Psych class does Freud, which would probably be too much for younger students. The way that we chose was to buy it for ourselves, and then listen to it first. For the first course you do, I always recommend “How to Listen to and Understand Music” because it’s fascinating and very non-threatening.
The courses are not a full curriculum, so you can’t say that one of them is one credit, or whatever. You can count the hours you spend, and add up the hours until you have enough for a full credit. We used them as a supplement that way.
Blessings,
Lee
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Doug van Orsow says:
It is hard to tell a Teaching Company course by its cover! Some are more appropriate than others for different reasons. My Teaching Company user forum may be helpful to make such choices. I review all lectures from their new courses.
http://teachingcompany.12.forumer.com
I hope it’s useful,
Doug van Orsow
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January 12th, 2008 at 5:05 pm