Free Parent Resources - Center For Homeschooling

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We’ve created lots of useful tools, methods, and great ideas in this section that you can download and use to improve your homeschooling. You are invited to browse around the five sections, each organized to help you find resources you can use for deeper conversations with your kids about learning, or to improve your homeschool teaching. Look around for new ideas to make your homeschooling better!

We exist to serve homeschooling parents by providing innovative ideas on the science of learning, teaching, and memory. We welcome your thoughts and ideas. If you find an idea useful, please drop us a note by email and tell us about it. We’d love to hear from you because we learn by listening to you.

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How to Develop College Readiness

Learn how to use recent scientific breakthroughs to have better discussions on faster and more efficient learning.

Do You Know Your Child’s Learning Maturity? Find Out Now

It is the Center for Homeschooling’s integrative model to visualizing and understanding your child’s learning maturity; it will help you to develop a planned way to improve your child’s ability to learn.

Oprah’s Three Questions for Better Homeschool Teaching

What can Oprah teach us about homeschooling? Yes, that Oprah and she has a valuable lesson. Who wouldn’t want to learn from her?

Ben Franklin Case Study – Instructor’s Guide

This instructor’s guide will help you lead a lesson with your children on studying smarter and it can open the door for subsequent productive conversations.

Metacognition Checklist

Use this checklist to evaluate your metacognition. Train yourself to ask questions like these to keep your metacognition high.

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Fun Family Learning Exercises

Encourage smarter learning through these easy-to-use activities.

How to Create a Summer Learning Challenge!

Why not center learning on an out-of-the-box learning challenge that has the power to make this summer uniquely different?

Movie Night!

Lead a fun learning exercise watching a favorite movie you already know and use it as a study case in taking notes.

How to Write Your Family Self-Scientist Credo

Your Self-Scientist Credo states how you and your child will go about improving your child’s learning strategies.

A fun Learning Exercise: “The Amazing Brain”

One of the major objections that parents face is the self-limiting beliefs your child can hold about their own capabilities to learn hard things.

If you have heard statements like, “I’m not smart enough to learn math,” or “This subject is too hard!” or “I wish I was smart like so and so,” then you should recognize you need some supporting information to counter these points of view. Use these points as talking points to counter negativity.

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Deeper Learning Conversations with Your Kids Through Coaching

Great Ideas and discussion tools to become a more effective learning coach.

Checklist to Better Learning – Improving Mindsets

Mindset is an important enabler affecting your child’s daily self-dialogue which reinforces his or her intimate beliefs, attitudes, and feelings about their capabilities to learn and grow.

The Cornell Note Method

It’s an unfortunate fact that most students don’t know how to create good notes. They know how to take them, but not how to make them work for them. Effective notes, from independent reading or in the classroom, are more than a record of information, they should be created to improve your memory and help you study better.

Guide to Awesome Note-Making

How the student creates and uses notes is one of the most important practices to promote better learning. You can help your child build an effective note-system that will improve memory and recall of information.

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The Circle of Learning Strategies™

Coaching comes naturally for most parents, in part, because you already do it. Doing it consistently and well requires practicing new skills and behaviors.

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Teaching Tips and Mini-Lessons for You

Interactive things you can use to get better at learning.

Critical Race Theory Educational Worksheet

Use this worksheet to organize your talking points then hold a conversation or mini-lesson on critical race theory.

One Big Thing to Improve Your Studies

Many students, along with their parents, don’t appreciate the connection of good study planning to better learning.

Teaching Tip: Stop and Jot

Looking for a great way to encourage more retrieval practice in your classroom? This is a technique you can seamlessly plug into your existing lesson plans and activities multiple times a day.

How to Memorize Bloom’s Taxonomy

You may wish to memorize the six levels of the thinking so you can use the taxonomy without having to look it up – try this kitchen mnemonic which gives you a way to “think on your feet” while teaching.

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Powerful Memory Techniques

Ideas and materials I can use to help my child become better at critical thinking.

How to Memorize Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Nelson Dellis: How to Memorize Everything – See Link Go! Method

Nelson Dellis, 4-time USA Memory Champion, teaches a 3-step method you can use to memorize everything with his See Link Go! technique.

Nelson Dellis: Random Memory Tips

Learn the one of the best systems for remembering numbers. Nelson Dellis does a great job of explaining the powerful “Major System” which you can help your kids learn to do this.

Nelson Dellis: Memorize a Recipe Using Movie Palace Technique

Nelson Dellis, 4-time USA memory Champion uses this clever movie palace technique with the Goodfellas movie to help you become a better cook!

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Conquering Common Problems

Student motivation, ADHD, Dyslexia

Marianne Sunderland: Homeschooling With Dyslexia

Marianne Sunderland discusses the best ways to teach your dyslexic learners at home. Seven of Marianne’s eight children have dyslexia.

Tim Urban: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator

Got a kid who procrastinates? This is a classic from Tim Urban. It’s funny and to the point! We love the simple animation.

Shari Gent, M.S., NCED: Nudge, Don’t Nag: 9 Ways to Motivate Your Child to Do Well

This a good short read. How to motivate and help your ADHD child get started and cross the finish line with assignments and projects.

Parenting ADHD Kids Tip #5

Project Happy Home is a series of good tips and useful reminders on parenting and homeschooling ADHD kids.

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But Wait, There's More...

Here are some great videos and external resources that we love. These may provide some useful ideas and information to help you improve your homeschooling.

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Benjamin Hardy: Why Most People Never Get What They Want

A powerful article from one of our favorite authors – Benjamin Hardy. How you can help your child to live his or her dreams.

Flashcard Tech Resources

There are lots of really good tech solutions for homeschoolers that you should be using. Flashcard apps are great tools to help you child remember large amounts of information.

Retrieval Practice

Retrieval practice is one of your best learning power tools. Check out this short explainer video on it. 3 minutes.

Tim Urban: TED Talk

Do you have issues with procrastination? Tim Urban has a great way to help you understand and deal with it.

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