10+ Useful Latin Teacher Resources

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Latin Teacher Resources

It’s that time of year to start collecting resources for the next academic round. We have put together a list of articles and downloadable content for teachers below. Our hope is that the list grow over the years, so check back in occasionally for more Latin teacher resources. You can also sign up for our newsletter, to receive email updates when we post new resources and articles. Use the table of contents for quick browsing.

Articles on Teaching Latin

Part I

Part II

Part III

A series of articles about teaching Hans Orberg’s great Lingua Latina series. The posts are aimed at middle/high-school teachers and focus on incorporating the “natural method” into your classroom.

Four classroom management tips for maintaining a healthy learning enviornment. The tips are written with language teachers in mind, but they are applicable to any kind of classroom.

A couple of example quizzes for high-school Latin and Greek students, and a brief dissertation on quiz philosophy.

An article about the necessity of self-improvement in your knowledge of Latin in order to grow as a teacher.

An article about learning to speak Latin and how to incorporate into your classroom.

How to get students on your side and willing to participate in activities.

Students love animals.

Three Latin fables in the vein of Aesop, pulled from Erasmus’ Adagia. 

Get your students learning more than just chapter vocab. An article on incorporating Latin phrases, proverbs, and poems into student repertoire.

How to break up classroom monotony as well links to great resources whence you pull inspiration.

An anecdote about Rogerius’ difficult first year of teaching and the changes that have since occured. 

Classroom Dialogues

Latin dialgoues, written to both help you improve your Latin, but also to present an ideal for classroom conversations with students and other teachers.

A teacher is interrupted by a student asking his comrade for a pencil to borrow.

Two very different kinds of Latin teachers discuss teaching in the modern classroom.

Latin Phrases and Proverbs

Latin idioms and expressions, designed to instruct teachers and students in the right way to communicate in Latin. Clicking free links will immediatley begin the download.

Verb Sheet

A brief list of some of the most common verbs, organized roughly by frequency.

Interesting Facts about the Ancient World

A great resource for dispelling classroom monotony. Challenge your students’ knowledge of the ancient world. Most questions are designed in such a way that one could guess the answer. In my experience, students of all ages love these kinds of things, and it is a great way to teach them a little bit more about the ancient world.

A lot of care and attention were put into collecting these interesting tidbits, and we offer the first 25 for free. The main source of the information was Erasmus’ Adagia, but each fact has a cited work. All works referenced are at the bottom of the sheet if you are interested in following up on anything.

External Links

Orberg's Fabellae Latinae

Orberg’s Fabellae Latinae – An uncompleted work of Orberg that is offered as a free download by Hackett Publishing. Basically, even more in-between texts to accompany the main Familia Romana book. Worth the download.

Roman Date Calculator

Roman Date Calculator – March, July, October, May Make Nones the seventh, Ides the fifteenth day. . . Or you could just plug the date into this calculator.

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Paraphrasis in Evangelium Marci

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