We’re here to make your world of homeschooling easier! To help you bring the amazing power of the new science of learning into your home, we’ve created lots of easy to access and quick to implement “how to” guides and power tools in our parent resources section. We keep adding new resources all the time.
That’s why we want you to download lots of great content to use at home, including new ideas from our sections on college readiness, coaching tools for deeper conversations, teaching tips, and powerful memory techniques.
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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.
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.
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.
Coaching comes naturally for most parents, in part, because you already do it. Doing it consistently and well requires practicing new skills and behaviors.
Coaching comes naturally for most parents, in part, because you already do it. Doing it consistently and well requires practicing new skills and behaviors.
Bring out the powerful parent coach in you with this four-step process!
This summarizes the steps of the 4D parent coaching model as presented in the online Pa 10 course. Use this as a step-by-step to guide for improving the learning strategies used by your child. Start with the Discover step and advance to the next levels only when you have accomplished the step results.
Because these ideas have so much potential to improve learning, you will want to consider how you will implement your change strategy. Consider this question – what is the best way to make these amazing improvements?
The ability to learn hard things should be your goal. Anyone can learn the easy things. Lifelong learners don’t pull back from the hard stuff. How can you do this? Read more to find out.
Most homeschooling families place an emphasis on strong family values. We think every family should have strong written statements about those things that you feel are most important.
Cal Newport is a great resource on learning and provides really good thought-provoking ideas about working and studying more effectively. Read below to get some ideas for great conversations with your children about learning.
Use this model to guide your first discussions on planned study strategy improvement with your child.
You have three primary roles in the homeschooling environment. Each role serves the others, to create the best learning experiences for your child.