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Louisville  Classical  Academy
An independent school for students in grades 3 - 12

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Madge Wampler                                 BA, English, Western Kentucky University

Mrs. Wampler's teaching resume includes Jefferson County Public Schools, Highlands Latin School, and four children whose outstanding academic careers have her gentle tutelage as foundation.  Her affinity for literature and writing instruction have caused more than one of her former students to call her 'my best and favorite teacher'.   A minor in history speaks to her love of the discipline and her ability to enrich all of her teaching with historical dimensions.

In addition to classroom teaching, Mrs. Wampler has been sought out for private tutoring.   With patience, attentiveness, and charm, she elicits her students' best efforts in and beyond the classroom.   As with others on the Academy faculty, she is the kind of teacher who creates her own teaching materials of publishable quality to supplement chosen texts.

In the '08–'09 academic year, Mrs. Wampler taught Language Arts and History to older Middle School students, as well as Foundational Narratives and Geography within the Grammar School's Foundations curriculum.   Having come to admire the Singapore math curriculum through her private tutoring, Mrs. Wampler also led a section of math for early primary level students.   Her love of language has inspired the study of Latin as an adult, and she was a tremendous success as a first-year Latin teacher of the Academy's youngest beginners using the Cambridge Minimus and Minimus Secundus texts.   At our Closing Ceremony, she led her class in a rousing performance of Senex MacDonald (Old MacDonald in Latin) with a barnyard full of props, which all in attendance agreed to be the highlight of the ceremony.  Few teachers are capable of such range within a school's curriculum!

Mrs. Wampler's philosophy is that a passion for learning must be 'caught' rather than 'taught', and parents tend to hope that that their children will catch Mrs. Wampler's grace and diligence, as well as her passion for literature and history.