How to teach young children in a homeschool. Teaching tips,
methods and ideas for teaching such things as spelling, creativity,
English, science, writing, math in fun, creative lessons, using
Bloom's Taxonomy to improve their thinking processes. It isn't
hard for parents to learn the ways top teachers instruct.
Drivers
Ed
AN A to Z ARTICLE
Home-based driving instruction for your homeschooling teen.
Teaching and Relating
to Your Child's Learning Style
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
How to teach anyone to read once you have
identified their learning style. By Lorraine Peoples, author
of You Can Teach Someone to Read.
Adding
Humor (and Fun) to Homeschooling
Home schooling is one of the most serious responsibilities one
can undertake, but that doesn't mean it must be a somber experience.
Not only does humor generate enthusiasm, it increases the likelihood
of retaining knowledge. By Lois Corcoran.
Applying
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy shows how deeply someone is thinking about a
subject: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis,
and Evaluation. Here are questions and activities for helping
children think deeply about subjects at hand.
A
Comparison of Different Methods & Approaches to Home Education
This article will compare some of the different methods and approaches
to home education with which many of you are already familiar.
Author is proponent of the Classical
approach.
Competition:
Just Having Fun?
Children deserve to be protected from unfair intellectual competition
as much as from unfair physical combat. By Jan Hunt, Natural
Child.
Creativity
Is As Natural as Breathing
Why the arts are important, how to incorporate the arts in your
everyday life as a homeschooling family, and how to encourage
your children to express their creativity. By Marty Layne.
Creativity:
Find it. Promote it
It is vital to get the pitch of an activity right from the outset.
Unrealistically high expectations cause frustration and anxiety,
inhibiting creativity. Unrealistically low expectations induce
boredom and cause pupils to switch off.
Flipping
the Tables
When Your Children Become Your Teachers. "It's OK, Mom,"
said my children. "We will help you. Everyone learns at
their own speed." By Sue Smith-Heavenrich, HEM J/A 03.
Homeschooling
Tips and Time Savers
Use a checklist. Use your answering machine. Simplify dinner.
Learn to say, "No!"
I
Think, Therefore I . . . Fill in the Blanks?
Workbooks are not teachers and are rarely an indicator of a student's
ability to understand or to think beyond the literal level. By
Kathryn Stout.
Learning
and Doing Science
Typical science activities include observing, measuring, categorizing,
asking questions, forming a hypothesis (guessing how something
works), proposing solutions, trying solutions (experimenting),
summarizing findings, evaluating results, recycling back to observing,
and sometimes reporting.
The
Moore Formula
How to teach with low stress, low cost, high success and behavior.
After 55 years of teaching teachers and students, and managing
education at all levels, we give you here and in The Handbook
secrets of all the ages to avoid or cure burnout and failure,
to bring success beyond normal hopes.
My
Lesson in Semantics
Sometimes when Jorgen and Siri express their desires and goals
for the day, I find myself judging whether or not they fit into
any of the categories I would consider as legitimate learning.
By Melanie Lien Palm , HEM J/A 04.
Myth
#4 "You Need Teacher Training, Dearie"
Over the years you've developed many characteristics as a parent
that transfer well and can help in your new role as homeschooling
parent. By Linda Dobson
Natural
Nature Learning
Simple ideas for studying nature with your children. By Deborah
Taylor-Hough.
Of
a Flat Universe and the Nature of Science
What children really need to know is that science is not just
a series of facts. Rather, it is the ability to tell a good story,
based on available evidence. And when the evidence changes, the
story gets transformed along with it. by David Albert, HEM.
On
killing creativity in children
If intrinsic motivation is one key to a child's creativity, the
crucial element in cultivating it is time: open-ended time for
the child to savor and explore a particular activity or material
to make it her own. Perhaps one of the greatest crimes adults
commit against a child's creativity is robbing the child of such
time.
Patience
The longer you homeschool, the better you get at patiently answering
the same question many times. You also get better at waiting
for the answers to questions you've asked in order to make your
child come to a certain conclusion. By Barbara Frank.
Stuffing Technology
into the Curriculum
The choice of tools to support student learning should come after
the designer has clarified learning goals and considered which
strategies are most likely to produce results. By Jamie McKenzie
Teaching
Tips
Children's education is extremely important, whether you are
a parent who has them in school or are homeschooling or you are
a teacher. Here is a gathering of tips and ideas for you to refer
to time and again.
Three
R's at Home
Think over your day with your child at home... How any times
did your child come up with a thoughtful question, a sincere
wondering, a puzzling observation? Count yourself lucky if the
question count was high, for this is a treasure reserved especially
for homeschoolers. By Susan and Howard Richman.
What You Don't Know About Art Could Cripple Your Child's Artistic Ability
"Would you ever simply hand a child a violin and say, 'Go ahead! Be creative!"? No way! Without skills, no one can be creative. And to express oneself successfully in the graphic arts requires the purposeful and strategic development of discrete, identifiable skills every bit as much as does the production of a musical score or the composition of a story." ~Steven Golden.