Category Archives: INNOVATIVE EDUCATION

Summer Thinking Activity

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SOMETHING TO DO THIS SUMMER

Thinking skills could be a curricula. If you want that, let me know. For now, following our last episode of things to do with your children this summer, here is an example of a conversation that could be used as a thinking lesson. It just happened to me on … well… another social media platform. Kind of annoyed me this morning, so I thought I would use it as an example.

There are a lot of controversial things going on today. Use a conversation about one as an example to lead your children into better thinking. Just part of the daily conversation. Becomes a lesson – the best kind. And a bonding time, too.

MAIN TAKEAWAYS ON HOW TO THINK

I summarize my main points in how to think well – and how to not get snookered . Here they are:

  • Nail down definitions and keep them nailed down
  • Determine what the proposition is and stay on that one proposition
  • Distinguish between facts and judgments
  • Disallow ad hominem arguments from substituting for actual discussion
  • Ask what the interest is of the interlocutor/ why is this being said?

RESOURCES

Dangerous Times audio series https://greatshalom.org/shop/ on sale now

Oh! I do have something for character, audio episodes on Manner and Character : https://greatshalom.org/shop/

www.teachachildchangeanation.org  course in how to start a licensed childcare center

Learn at Home for Great Shalom  https://www.lulu.com/shop/sharon-sarles/learn-at-home-for-great-shalom/paperback/product-195ym29w.html?q=learn+at+home+for+great+shalom&page=1&pageSize=4

Later addition: Interesting person (Michael Yon, War correspondent/traveling journalist) offers his thinking exercises that made him a good predictor of world events. Minute 25

https://rumble.com/v6v0fyt-israeliran-airports-gell-mann-effect-and-more-michael-yon.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp

Contact me for Help Starting a School

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Contact me for help starting a school. I have been doing teacher training and administrator coaching and owner consulting for more than 20 years. I was the one who wrote the book on starting a licensed childcare center as a mission. I have now a new book on re-founding education. I can help you.

Do you have a group, like maybe a congregation, that wants to start a school? Call me so I can advise y ou in process. Maybe you are a homeschool grandmother and have a large living room. Call me to find out about microschools. Maybe you want a conversation or maybe you want your hand held for a year. Maybe you have a little school and you need board and staff training.

My consulting website is www.orgstrat.net   

For a course in starting a licensed childcare center, go to www.teachachildchangeanation.org

Please share with your better friends, and talk this up at your church — if it is a healthy one.

 

Re-founding Education — Announcement

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My latest book, Re-founding Education: Jesus’ Teaching Method for Parents, Pastors, Teachers, and Administrators is out now! Yesterday was the launch day. And even better for you, in Kindle version, you can get it for free today also.

Please tell your friends! And they might even be able to get it for free if they hurry – over the weekend!

Please give me a good review.

WHAT IS IN THE BOOK

Here is the deal: Education in American is on the wrong track. We know that. Heading the wrong direction. I wondered how it could be so bad. Chapter 2 explores that. I discovered something that really shocked me.

Then, in Chapters 3 & 4, I cover the rest of the education situation. What else is going on besides government schools? And how is that working? What is useful and what is disappointing.

Then, Chapter 5 is the chapter everyone will want to get to. What lessons in how to teach, can we learn from Jesus, the Master Teacher? I have 7 categories. And, it is more that just saying “STORIES” you seminary trained guys! Listen! It is really high time someone did this sort of study. Last time a book was published with this strategy was 1895. Yes, 1895. r

Any experienced educator or good mother will recognize immediately some of these lessons. And probably slap there head. What were we thinking that we forgot these lessons?!?!?! Love for students. Do you think that is the primary value of government schools? How about teaching Truth? And so forth.

WHY THIS BOOK IS SO IMPORTANT

This book will be a go=to read for anyone starting teaching, homeschooling, or even considering a congregation’s educational mission. It will move the conversation along in the academic world of education, especially in Christian universities attempting to have departments where they train teachers. (I have always said that wherever we train pastors, like in Bible Schools, we ought to also have teachers’ colleges.) This book will be the beginning of the way forward.

HOW YOU CAN BE PART OF THE TEAM

You need to get a copy, or you will be missing out. Get a copy for every Christian person who is struggling to teach anywhere in any context. That means the pastor and Sunday School teacher. That means the people who run a local Christian school. Make it a study text for your homeschooling support group.ion pen to facts and fairness for our students. So, you know what it takes to get the word out these days, when we are flooded with information, good or not. Speak for this in your study groups. Like, share, and review. This really does matter, because the algorithms of every electronic platform push down what is seldom looked at. Amazon, in particular, will not show books to people unless there are big sales. Even if there were no persecution in the world, in the most plain terms, they want to sell the most books. So , they are going to show books with the highest sales. Self-perpetuating prophecy — unless friends help.

And btw, free now.

And reviews! Please post an honest review after getting the book. Thanks a bunch ya’ll. Let’s do something for the children!

“School Choice” did Not Work out well in AZ as ESA either

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“School Choice” did Not Work out well in AZ as ESA either.

School choice is not about choice; it is about money. Don’t let folks fool you. In Texas, Texas even, the Senate has passed it and the House is about to. It is reported that most Republicans want it. In TN the patriots are mourning, because their RINO governor got it through their lege. This is what is happening in the red states. The Blue states, not so much, and why? Because they already have very little freedom to educate children individually, or in Christian worldview.

Yes, you might get a little bit of money, but it is only a lure to reduce choice. Same story with  Educational Savings Accounts. ESAs. Okay, maybe better, since the money doesn’t go to Cesar first, but it does require Cesear’s permission.

Maybe you would like to hear how it worked in Arizona? A Christians was head of the schools for the state then. Now she regrets letting “school choice” aka shackles in. Listen in.

Friends, this is probably the biggest learning problem in the state right now. It is being pushed everywhere — except where there is already no choice. So, I know I know I know that t his might not be our fave topic.  Like broccolli. You tell your children to eat it — if you are a good mom.

https://christedu.org/  Capt Ray Moore, published The Shekels to Shackles

These people recommend you exit government schools https://www.publicschoolexit.com/

https://deconstructingthecoliseum.com/   Yes, there are people who want to shut down government schools