Teach Your Children Well brings together all kinds of ideas from various disciplines and experiences, some of which contradict one another. What they all have in common, nonetheless, is the desire to teach well and to explore the circumstances under which creativity, understanding, and knowledge can flourish. Each essay, in its own particular and peculiar way, contains or chronicles an expression of how this might be done. None of the writers are at present members of a formal Education program at a university, rather, they are teachers and mentors who bring to the discipline of education their own particular insights.
Introduction by Theresia de Vroom
1. The Electric Owl and Other Teaching Stories by Chuck Rosenthal
2. Violin and Time Travel—a Brief Reflection on Teaching by Ken Aiso
3. “What’s bred in the bone will not out of the flesh” by Theresia de Vroom
4. The Dilly Dilly Rhythm: A Collaborative Concept Album for Children by Logan Metz
5. Music as Catechesis: What Music Education Can Teach Children about the Real Presence by John Flaherty
6. About Teaching: Rooms at the Inn by Catherine Collins
7. Icebergs and the Plastic Brain: The Real Work of Learning by Jennifer Zacuto
8. How Master Yoda Made Me a Better Teacher by Jeremy Wasser
9. Jewish Student Life, Identity Building, and Learning at a Jesuit University by Rabbi Zachary Zysman
10. Making Connections: Learning, Teaching, and The Frankenstein Patchwork Project by Brenno Kenji Kaneyasu
11. Teaching while Outside/Inside the University by Susan Abraham
12. The Education of an Under-Achiever by Jeff Dietrich
13. Not Your Grandfathers’ Classics Anymore by Lawrence A. Tritle
14. A Latinist Antecedent by Jane W. Crawford
15. Sacred Authority: from the Present to the Timeless by Aimee Ross-Kilroy
16. Theological Episteme and Paideia: The Teaching of Theology in the Academy by Cyril Hovorun
17. Breaking Boundaries: The Power of the First Step by Hania Ahmar
18. Ignatian Islam: Theological Reflections of a Muslim at a Jesuit University by Kienan Taweil
19. Why I do It: Teaching Sea World by Karen Setterfield
20. Teaching Theology Through a Pandemic by Michael P. Horan
21. Travels in Hyper-Reality: Lessons Learned from a Career in International Education by Margaret Eve Hellwarth
22. Grace, Community, Mathematics, and Judo: in loco parentis by Michael Berg
23. Luck Favors the Prepared in War and in Peace by Chake Kouyoumjian