This handbook for teachers provides both practical, up-to-date guidance and a theoretical overview on a number of key topics in Latin teaching. Using a wealth of interviews, observations and pupil transcripts, Steven Hunt title utilizes case-study evidence of excellent practice in teaching and learning from a wide variety of institutions: from outreach programmes, community schools and academies in the UK, to New York Charter Schools, KIP schools and schools in Eastern Seaboard states in the USA.
Offering practical advice on topics such as essay writing, teaching controversial topics including women, slavery, ethnicity and social hierarchy, making use of primary sources and using ICT to advance language skills, the book also engages with broader questions of approach and theory. These include a survey of the three main approaches to Latin teaching: grammar-translation, communicative and reading approaches; explanation of cognitive and social approaches to learning; and analysis of the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Moreover, traditional arguments about the value and purpose of learning Latin at school level are re-examined in the light of current educational thinking and government policy-making.
This book is invaluable for trainees, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practitioners looking for practical ideas and strategies to motivate and engage learners of Latin. A companion website www.startingtoteachlatin.org is under construction and will contain a range of resources and information for teachers.

Acknowledgements
Glossary
1 Starting to Teach Latin
Starting to teach Latin
What is the study of Latin all about?
Who is this book for?
Challenges in teacher training
Latin in the curriculum today: opportunities and challenges
Latin for the few or for everyone?
Crisis? What crisis?
A reawakening of interest in the teaching of Latin in schools
The US experience
Teaching approaches
Latin in diverse communities of students
2 Teaching Language, Civilization and Literature
Schemes of work
Lesson planning
Teaching Latin through stories
The importance of cognitive styles
Latin aloud
Teaching not testing
Clues about how students comprehend a Latin story
Latin round the class
Dialogic teaching and Latin
Motivating students to read
Reading for a purpose: learning about language and socio-cultural content
Addressing gender issues through the story
Using information and communication technology to teach Latin
Latin vocabulary acquisition and learning
Teaching literature in the original
Revision
Assessment
3 Resources
Latin course books
Books about teaching Classics
Journals and journal articles about Latin teaching and learning
General books on language teaching approaches
Organizations for Latin teachers
Spoken Latin
Assessment
Teacher training
Communication and persuasion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index