The Brave Learner by
In this book, Julie Bogart distills decades of experience--homeschooling her five now grown children, developing curricula, and training homeschooling families around the world--to show parents how to make education an exciting, even enchanting, experience for their kids, whether they're in elementary or high school.
The Four-Hour School Day by
For parents who are concerned about the quality, safety, and care offered in traditional school systems, trusted homeschool expert Durenda Wilson equips you with the resources you need to give your child a great education and a healthy, successful future--and in less time than you think--in The Four-Hour School Day"-- Provided by publisher.
Home Learning Year by Year, Revised and Updated by
Introduction -- To school or not to school -- Anything leads everywhere -- The three R's, plus: some general principles -- Preschool -- Kindergarten -- Grade one -- Grade two -- Grade three -- Grade four -- Grade five -- Grade six -- Grade seven -- Grade eight -- High school: an overview -- Grade nine -- Grade ten -- Grade eleven -- Grade twelve -- Epilogue: Moving on."A comprehensive guide to designing homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts-now revised and updated! For first-time homeschoolers, the prospect of tackling an annual curriculum can be daunting. In Home Learning Year by Year, Rebecca Rupp presents comprehensive plans from preschool through high school, covering integral subjects for each grade, with lists of topics commonly presented at each level, recommended resource and reading lists, and suggestions for creative alternative options and approaches. Included, along with all the educational basics, are techniques and resources for teaching everything from philosophy to engineering, as well as suggestions for dealing with such sensitive topics as sex education. Now revised throughout with all-new updates featuring the most effective and up-to-date methods and reading guides to homeschool your child at all ages." -- ONIX annotation.
Really Good Schools by
A distinguished scholar of education and the world's foremost expert on private, low-cost innovative education, Tooley takes readers where education "experts" fear to tread, finding thriving private schools that others deny exist. Why? Because the very existence of low-cost, high-quality private schools shatters the prevailing myth that, absent government, affordable, high-quality schools for the poor could not exist. But they do. And they are ubiquitous and in high demand. Founded by unheralded, local educational entrepreneurs, these schools are proving that self-organized education is not just possible but flourishing-often enrolling far more students than "free" government schools do at prices within reach of even the most impoverished families.
The Charlotte Mason Method of homeschooling emphasizes the importance of living books, nature study, and hands-on learning. Her ideas are based on the belief that children are born persons with their own unique personalities, interests, and abilities. This method focuses on the abundant use of narrative literature. Plenty of time is spent outdoors exploring. The development of an appreciation for art, music, and nature. Journalling, narration, dictation, and copywork.
A Charlotte Mason Education by
Explains the philosophy behind the Charlotte Mason style of homeschooling.
Traditional homeschooling typically involves the same types of educational materials found in public and private schools: textbooks, workbooks, tests, quizzes, structured lesson plans, and other academic activities. Some parents create their own curriculum, but many other parents choose to employ a premade program. Using the “trivium” model, children move through three main stages of learning: concrete learning (the grammar stage), critical learning (the logic stage), and abstract learning (the rhetoric stage).
The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education by
In this book, education expert and author Leigh A. bortins incoroprates the best ideas from the ancients and gives parents the tools to revive classical learning"
The Well-Trained Mind by
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an education from preschool through high school -- one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind and comprises three stages: the elementary school "grammar stage," when the building blocks of information are absorbed through memorization and rules; the middle school "logic stage," in which the student begins to think more analytically; and the high-school "rhetoric stage," where the student learns to write and speak with force and originality. Using this theory as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child -- whether full-time or as a supplement to classroom education -- in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. This edition contains updated curricula and book lists, links to an entirely new set of online resources, new material on teaching children with learning challenges, math and sciences recommendations, answers to common questions about home education, and advice on practical matters such as standardized testing, working with your local school board, designing a high-school program, preparing transcripts, and applying to colleges.
The Well-Educated Mind by
The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
Core Knowledge offers suggested content to be taught at each grade level and materials aligned with each content area, around which you can build you own lessons and units.
How to Educate a Citizen by
Administrators and educators have believed they are teaching reading and critical thinking skills. Yet these cannot be taught in the absence of strong content. The consequence is a loss of shared knowledge that would enable us to work together, understand one another, and make coherent, informed decisions. A broken approach to school not only leaves our children under-prepared and erodes the American dream but also loosens the spiritual bonds and unity that hold the nation together. Drawing on early schoolmasters and educational reformers such as Noah Webster and Horace Mann, Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance. Critical and compelling, How to Educate a Citizen galvanizes our schools to equip children with the power of shared knowledge.
Why Knowledge Matters by
In this provocative book, influential scholar E.D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform - over-testing, teacher blaming, preschool fadeout, and the persistence of achievement gaps over time. In each case, he shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Drawing on recent findings in neuroscience and new data from France, he provides new evidence for the argument that a coherent, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success and ensuring equal opportunity for students of all backgrounds.
Montessori is an education philosophy and practice that fosters rigorous, self-motivated growth for children and adolescents in all areas of their development, with a goal of nurturing each child's natural desire for knowledge, understanding, and respect. Montessori teachers set up their classroom to promote safe, independent exploration and learning, often through hands-on activities and lessons. Learning in a space that encourages their natural curiosity, children will feel the freedom to explore and learn about the world around them.
The Montessori Method by
This book is Montessori's own exposition of the theory behind her innovative educational techniques. She shows parents, teachers and administrators how to "free a child to learn through his own efforts.
How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way, 2nd Edition by
"A practical parenting program to help build a calm and happy home life with your child, from birth through age six. This guide is based on Montessori school methods and packed with creative activities to help children discover more about their world as well as foster independence, concentration, and respect for others"--Back cover.
The Montessori Book of Words and Numbers by 
Montessori Lab at Home by
This book is a practical guide inspired by the principles of the Montessori Method of education. Here, parents of children from 1 to 5 will find interesting food for thought and practical suggestions for indoor and outdoor activities that are meant to promote the development of their children's potential and encourage their independence and sense of security.
The Rhythm of Learning by In Unschooling, homeschoolers are focused more on the experimental process of learning and becoming educated, than with “doing school.” The focus of unschooling is on the choices made by the individual child, dictated by interests, learning style, and personality type.
Unschooled by
Introducing historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. It challenges the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. Authors are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children's natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people's innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.
Success Without School by
This is the story of two kids who were successfully unschooled from birth to college. It's also my story as their mother and guide. I hope our journey will encourage parents who are considering alternatives to conventional school for their children. I hope to show that it's not only possible to successfully raise children outside of school, but that relationships and emotional health are protected and enhanced along the way.
Gifted and Distractible by 
The New Assistive Tech, Second Edition by 
Autism and Education: the Way I See It by 
Contemporary Topics 3: academic listening and note-taking skills by
This interactive listening-speaking series prepares students for the challenges of college lectures with a wide range of listening, speaking, and note-taking strategies and skills. The lectures are drawn from a range of academic disciplines and reflect authentic lecture settings, featuring engaging instructors and live student audiences.
Study Skills 1 by
From reducing the stress of test taking to looking up words in a dictionary, these workbooks have it all. Includes organizing for study, improving memory, taking notes, goal setting, and more. Topics Include: Organizing for Study; Improving Memory, Anatomy of a Textbook, Taking Class Notes, The Vocabulary of Tests, and more.
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