I graduated from SUNY Albany with a master's degree in Latin language and a teaching certificate. I taught Latin for approximately 40 yrs, in public schools, in private schools, in university as an adjunct professor, often tutoring in private homes. In the past three years I was a homeschool Latin teacher where the interest was in Ecclesiastical Latin. After teaching my young charges the church pronunciation, they often had to remind me that I was slipping into Classical Latin. When I...
I graduated from SUNY Albany with a master's degree in Latin language and a teaching certificate. I taught Latin for approximately 40 yrs, in public schools, in private schools, in university as an adjunct professor, often tutoring in private homes. In the past three years I was a homeschool Latin teacher where the interest was in Ecclesiastical Latin. After teaching my young charges the church pronunciation, they often had to remind me that I was slipping into Classical Latin. When I was in college, spoken Latin was one of the latest pedogogical innovations, so I learned to speak Latin as much as possible in the classroom. Since then I have modified my approaches depending on the age of my students, the level, the country (I taught in a British boarding school in Jamaica for 3 years). I have used a variety of textbooks from the ultra-traditional Charles Jenny to the very contemporary and popular Cambridge series. My methods include chanting, singing and nose to the grindstone memorizing. I am very interested in etymology so I always include derivations in our study of vocabulary. Oh, and I find grammar a fascinating miracle of the human brain.
