For nearly 20 years, critics and the curious have been asking about the home schooled: But how will they do in the "real world" of adulthood? As a corollary, they have also asked: What about socialization? This unique study takes a look at the lives of over 7,000 adults from across the United States who were home educated during their elementary and secondary school years. The purpose of this study was to describe and gain more understanding about these adults. In particular, the focus was on their general demographics, attitudes toward their own home-education experiences, and successes in life.
Success was evaluated with respect to civic, social, educational, employment, and worldview traits. The target population was all adults in the United States who had been home educated, regardless of whether thought positively or negatively about having been home schooled. A written survey (questionnaire) and follow-up interviews were used to gather information about the participants.
Author Brian D. Ray
Other products in the category Home School Helps / How to Home School:
100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum -- Cathy Duffy gives her top choices in every subject area using charts for easy comparison in regards to learning styles and offers thorough reviews with illustrations. This resource even includes sections on electives, online classes, and All-in-One Programs. Other sections will help you put your philosophy of education together, determine what your child should learn when, and find their particular learning style.Paperback - 314 Pages
Author Cathy Duffy
A Biblical Home Education: Building Your Homeschool on the Foundation of God's Word -- An immensely respected leader in today's home school movement, Dr. Ruth Beechick encourages families to center all aspects of their children's learning on God's Word in A Biblical Home Education. Beechick begins by showing how the subjects of worldview, science, and history have been pulled apart from the Bible and how they can be sensibly reconnected. In the author's words, "Since the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, that anti-God teaching can lead only to foolishness."
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Alpha Omega Parent Starter Kit -- Designed specifically for new home schooling parents, the Parent Starter Kit will help you get your home school started off on the right foot. You'll avoid costly confusion and have a better understanding of how to set up your home school and properly manage the LIFEPAC Curriculum. The Parent Starter Kit contains all of the following:
A Parent's Guide to Mastering LIFEPAC Management A must for home schooling parents new to the LIFEPAC Curriculum, this "LIFEPAC instruction manual" provides an overview . . .
Beyond Survival, A Guide To
Abundant-Life Homeschooling -- By Diana WaringIf you're just getting by with home schooling, or if you've lost that inner joy for what you want to accomplish with your family, I strongly recommend you read this book! The first few chapters include things like, surviving your first curriculum fair, learning styles, suggested book lists, and suggestions on how to get the laundry and review done in one day. In each chapter she even includes their personal experiences with the topic, something I really appreciate! This is a great . . .
Charlotte Mason Companion -- This book on Charlotte Mason's philosophy by well-known speaker and columnist Karen Andreola provides a wealth of insight, practical advice, and narratives illustrating how the ideas of the famed turn-of-the century educator actually work in "real life". With warmth and humor, Karen weaves together her own stories of the joys and struggles of the educational life and Charlotte high ideals and firmly held principles. Her years of home schooling the Charlotte Mason way are clear and compelling evidence . . .
Discover Your Child's Learning Style -- Help your child discover the joy of learning.Does your child learn best in the morning, afternoon, or evening? Does his reading comprehension increase or decrease when music is played in the background? Does she prefer to study alone or with others? According to nationally respected educators Mariaemma Willis And Victoria Kindle Hodson, our children process information in a multitude of unique ways. What works best for one child is often counterproductive for others. By trying to force all children . . .
Following Directions -- This book is divided into 2 categories:
Following Oral Directions, and Following Written Directions, with an answer key in the back.
Below is a copy of what is on the back of the book, but I (Lindley) wanted to make a note before you read their paragraph. As I reviewed this book, I opened this in the middle first. I thought – wow, this would be a great ADULT study! So flipping to the front I see where they . . .
For The Children's Sake -- Based on a Christian understanding of what it means to be a human, this practical book on what education can be has also been one of our most requested items from 1998. Using the Charlotte Mason approach, your children's education can be a joyous adventure and celebration of life and well as serve as a solid preparation for living. This book takes on a totally different approach to raising children than what the world tries to demand. You'll find reasons, tools, scriptural basis, and practical suggestions . . .
Gaining Confidence To Teach -- Debbie Strayer is well known for her Confidence To Teach seminars and magazine columns on this topic. In this book, Debbie speaks from the heart in forty-two brief confidence builders that deal with such topics as relationships at home, facing changes and enduring trials. So sit back, relax, and find encouragement and refreshment with Debbie Strayer and Gaining Confidence to Teach.
Author Debbie Strayer
Gifted Children At Home -- This practical guide for home schooling families can be one of your best tools to searching out the best possible options for educating your gifted student. Whether your student is currently home schooled, after schooled, or enrolled in a traditional school, here are options and hard-earned wisdom from women who have been there, done that. Feeling frustrated in meeting your child's educational needs? Take heart! This book will encourage you and give you a firm foundation for making important . . .
Help for the Harried Homeschooler -- Experienced home schoolers and novices alike know how difficult it is to be a parent, homemaker, spouse, teacher, cook, coach, social director, and disciplinarian, - all in a typical day! This book provides practical advice and witty wisdom for challenges such as: Managing discouragement and burnout, teaching multiple ages, balancing home schooling and your marriage, classroom discipline, and more! You'll really appreciate the two chapters in particular. One is titled called Chaos Control and the . . .
High School at Home: You Can Do It!
Book & CD-ROM -- For homeschool parents overwhelmed at the prospect of teaching their teenagers, High School @ Home offers great help. This user-friendly educational guide enables busy moms and dads to:
Design a program based on your student’s future goals.
Understand college entrance requirements.
Establish guidelines for your high school course of study.
Credit and grade textbook, living book, and project courses.
Calculate a grade point average.
Compile a transcript.
Create courses which meet the . . .
Home Schooling at the Speed of Life -- What should I do next, grade the math test or tackle the laundry? Homeschooling at the Speed of Life gives busy homeschooling mothers a thoughtfully thorough resource for bringing order back to their home-turned-classroom. In tune with today’s pace, the book provides basic home-management principles, teaching parents how to de-clutter their homes, develop life skills in their children, fame the paper monster, and keep organized records. Also emphasized are ways to build relationships and use the . . .
How To Home School (A Practical Approach) -- By Gayle GrahamThe title fits well. This book is a working manual with MANY real-life suggestions for keeping your sanity while completing your home schooling goals. Included are chapters on socialization, planning for school, planning for yourself, making sense of the curriculum choices, organization and more.
Author Gayle Graham
If I'm Diapering the Watermelon
Then Where is the Baby? -- Why do we start for the kitchen to get a drink for a child, get sidetracked by a paperclip on the floor and end up weeding in the garden with no idea why our child is still thirsty? As a self-proclaimed "Gloriously Unregimented Mom", Carol shares stories and strategies from the heart (and from the trenches!) about living in a home run by a mom whose brain hasn't had a linear thought since 1988 (pre-children). She brings to light the many "truths" distractible moms must own if ever they are to develop . . .
POC4U - Person Optimized Curricula For You -- Its a Pre-K through 12th grades is a curriculum planning program that offers objective tools and solutions to help guide you through the curriculum maze. This small book contains the same tools as The Concise Learning Styles Assessment(#10-81612), and includes the following:
Skills Evaluation -- Now you can be sure your child is “operating at grade level”. This book for the home school is a detailed list of skills to be taught at each grade level, subject by subject for K - 6th grade. Grade level requirements for six subjects are provided as well as grade placement in the Weaver Curriculum and others.
Teaching the Trivium -- Christian Homeschooling in a Classical StyleBy Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn How can you give your children the tools they need to teach themselves? Long ago students were first taught how to learn. Today, students are taught an encyclopedia of subjects and trivia but they are not taught the basic skills of learning: to discover, to reason, and to apply. They are not taught the Trivium.
There is only so much time in the day. For every subject, and for every age, the Bluedorns have a workable . . .
The Concise Learning Styles Assessment
with Instructional Guide -- This tool was devised for students ages seven through adult in order to discover the primary and second and third level learning styles of each assessed student. It determines the strengths of all learners, whether they are auditory, visual, or tactile/kinesthetic. It contains no "fluff" or unnecessary material, but rather comes right to the issues involved. (There is no "weeding through" the book for the few valuable pages.) It is very easy to understand, administer and score. Another of its unique . . .
The Homeschoolers Book (& CD) of Lists -- With more than 250 lists organized by subject, home educators, private school teachers, and other instructors will find important facts and essential information in one easy-to-use resource. The book and CD covers material in eight academic areas - including science, geography, history, the Bible, and more - that can be used in all grade levels. Two additional chapters are dedicated to curriculum information, homeschool methodology and organization, checklists, and key Web sites for the parent-teacher.
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The Organized Home Schooler -- This veteran educator has compiled her most-requested homeschooling workshop material so that families can become more proficient in educating their kids. Covering issues like time management, space usage and materials, Vicki Caruana addresses a variety of organizational needs to help families structure not only their work areas, but also their thinking, their paperwork--and each other! By the book's end, she inspires readers to re-evaluate, reorganize, and form new habits, leaving behind the stress . . .
The Relaxed Home School -- Mary Hood, PH.D, and home school mother writes about “natural literacy” and “living curriculum” within the home. She instructs on how to be organized and sress-free, setting goals and scrapping perfectionism, discovering teachable moments and creating them. She even addresses preparing for the future and on to college. In keeping with the title, the author has made this a short book but packs it with worthwhile and usable information for almost every home schooling family. Paperback, 106 pages
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The Three R'S -- This book has been redesigned to include all three of Dr. Ruth Beechick's K-3 manuals -
A Home Start in Reading, A Strong Start in Language, and an Easy Start in Arithmetic. A phonics and arithmetic wall chart is included.
Author Ruth Beechick
The Way They Learn -- By Cynthia Ulrich TobiasThis book is an enlightening approach to the uniqueness of children. We all KNOW our kids are different, but this book explains it in detail and offers many ways to use those differences to everyone's advantage. Cynthia Tobias has been featured on Dr. Dobson's Focus On The Family radio program and is a popular speaker and author.
Author Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
The Well-Educated Mind -- A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had Are you reading the newspaper when you could be reading a book? Have you missed out on, or lost, the enjoyment of great literature?
A few minutes a day, four times a week, will enable you to -
Read challenging novels or complex historical arguments with ease and understanding
Keep a diary of thoughts and reactions to what you have read
Discuss materials with a reading partner
Understand the historical continuities and innovations in . . .
The Well-Trained Mind (revised 10th anniversary edition) -- Feeling overwhelmed? Not sure where to begin with this crazy idea you have about homeschooling your family? Anxious about what curriculum to pick for English, or Science, or (gulp!) Latin?
The Well-Trained Mind is the perfect book for those just starting out with homeschooling, those who have a few years of experience, or those who have been educating their families for a long time and just need to read some recommendations for working with older students.
Hundreds of thousands of moms and dads . . .
Things We Wish We'd Known -- Who do parents turn to with questions about home schooling, whether they�re novices, long-timers, or just trying out the waters? Experienced home schoolers! Who better to answer the questions arising from any serious endeavor than those who have been there, done that, and found a better way? You�ll get home school nuggets of gold from Karen Andreola, Steve and Jane Lambert, Debbie Ward, Tina Farewell, Debbie Strayer, and a host of others who have gone on before you. For those of you new to home . . .
Weaver Teaching Tips and Techniques -- Teaching Tips and Techniques is a comprehensive guide to teaching. This book will tell you HOW to teach and remove the mystery of home schooling. It includes information such as how to plan lessons, activity suggestions for motivation, and how to teach in a multi-level classroom. Also contains excellent book lists for each grade level, including classics.
When Home-schooling Gets Tough -- Many homeschoolers struggle with feelings of inadequacy and failure when their homeschool situation is not picture-perfect. In this timely book, Diana offers challenged homeschooling parents practical advice mixed with spiritual insight about (1) controlling the curriculum quest, (2) defining basic educational objectives for different age groups, (3) streamlining commitments, and (4) developing realistic goals and schedules.
Softcover - 128 Pages
Author: Diana Johnson
You Can Teach Your Child Successfully -- A common sense approach to teaching your 4th - 8th grader. This classic book will save you lots of time by eradicating the need for stacks of textbooks in your house. Includes sections on just about every subject - math, language arts, science, history, reading and reading skills, spelling, and more. All addressed to this specific upper elementary and junior high level. Paperback, 388 pages
Author Ruth Beechick
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