Category Archives: INNOVATIVE EDUCATION

Learn How to Teach Handwriting — and to find solutions to most anything else

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I will tell you how to teach handwriting in this episode. This conversation was kicked off by a Facebook discussion. As usual some mother was reaching out to ?? friends ?? about something she was concerned about. More than usual, she got a long list of really bad advice. So, will let you know.

Then, will discuss other options: Testing, finding people who know, getting mentoring. Not assuming the standards of government schools, not trying to figure out an argument where both sides do not know what they are talking about, and not just listening to anyone. And not shutting your ears based on mis-directed principles. (By the way, I have taught 2 series on how to tell what is true.)

If you want more resources on teaching literacy and numeracy, check the SHOP tab and look for “When The Road to Reading Gets Rocky.” Of course, you could just avoid that problem by starting right. Montessori Method, Montessori Handbook, Elizabeth Hainstock’s Montessori in the Home are good resources for that.

Think about the anti-commercial teaching. Think about the teaching that anything that is inexpensive or free must therefore be bad. Also think about the idea that anything that is uncomfortable to hear is somehow bad. Truth is often uncomfortable to hear — especially in a time and place where lies and deception are normal. We live in a society where officials calling for assassination of the sitting president is considered normal and at the same time a preacher quoting the Bible saying that perverted sex is a sin is considered a hate crime. And then we have silly young women who set up Facebook pages where entrants have to agree to “no hate speech” without any definition of what that might be in that group. Think about it.

If you want assessments, go to www.orgstrat.net. If you want a fulsome, one-size fits all, protocol for addressing learning problems from the mom level, look for a tab with a page. Notice that the next competitor, perhaps one step up, ten years ago cost $86,000.00. Yes, you read that right. You might find the interview with Brain Balance in Westlake Hills/Austin with Anna Bauereis. If you want a fulsome guide to think through what your child needs to learn, and how best to teach them, before you go shopping for curricula go get : Learn at Home for Great Shalom. After great success with my grandchildren who were terribly afflicted by SES, genes, and accident — I was ordered to write the book. I did it — for you.

The Window is Closing on College Applications for September

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The Window is Closing on College Applications for September. Those really up on it started the application process in October of the senior year. For those who did not, it is time now. For those who did, it is time now to apply for scholarships. Most scholarships will want to see the parents’ tax return, and so today is the day to start (assuming your tax return was filed on time.)

Is college important? Certain credentials are important in the world of work. Others are not. Choose carefully. For those many students who just do not know their calling, I do have a Destiny Discovery seminar, intended for juniors in Christian high schools, but that could be administered to an individual. See www.info@orgstrat.net It is a whole lot cheap to pay for help in hearing reasonable vocational plan than sending a student to college only to have changes in majors, and thus wasted time and money. Good advising also helps. The journey thru the credentials can be made faster and more secure; and college “advisors” sometime don’t advise at all, and even in colleges where they might, they are not primarily focused on the same things that the student or parents would focus on: quick, frugal, and remunerative passage thru school

Isn’t college just silly? More of less and less? Just ideological indoctrination. No, not unless you want it to be. Every course have information about it, as does every professor. Choose the school for its philosophy and choose the course of study — and choose individual classes and sections that will help the most. In Texas every course must have a summarized syllabus within one click of the college homepage. Every accredited school will have a course catalog. What you get depends upon what you choose.

There are colleges that specialize in every flavor of Christianity (altho nearly every one is more liberal than the grandparent generation of the same denomination.) There are colleges that specialize in conservative political views. There are colleges that are free (usually to residents of the state and/or for some work.) Every college has some scholarships and work/study arrangement. There are libraries of scholarships at every school. Do your own research — or pay someone who already has.

Homeschoolers are probably thinking about curricular choices now, even if they don’t buy until the summer. People should definitely be checking out private schools now, if that is the route they want to go. www.powerlearningcenters. If you are a homeschool grandmother, sad that your teaching days are over — contact me, but first, take a look at www.teachachildchangeanation.org

How to Have a Smarter Baby

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Today, a replay of How to Have a Smarter Baby. Still true. Although today, the first advice would be not to destroy their brain with medical grade bio-weapons! I am sure you have heard enough about that. If not, connect with me on X.com (formerly Twitter) and you will see a couple of years of posts of scientific data.

However, you can have a smarter baby by better nutrition, basic safety and an enriched environment.

An enriched environment means an attentive mother giving the child brain stimulating, interesting things to play with.

Many young women today misquote *It Takes a Village* in which H. Clinton says that if you take a baby from the worst environment and put them in the very best childcare center, then the IQ may be raised as much as 18 point. This may be true. She does not give citations. However, this scenario never happens. Poor children tend to go to poor daycares. Rich mothers think they MUST send their children to group care because group care is necessarily better. It is not. This claim never even said that. Now, on the contrary, Prof. Abraham of University of Chicago had a study some time just before 1983 that showed that middle class children tended to do better academically and otherwise if they stayed home with an educated mother. I have tried and cannot find that citation. But I did have that study. I remember having it in my hand and discussing it in 1983 with my ECD professor at Red Deer College. Studies since then consistently show that children in daycares are stressed out. Further, other studies consistently show that stress reduces learning and harms brains. So daycare is NOT the means to smarter babies!!!!!

We need to also talk about how to be smarter. How to stay smart. I see such a need for this. It breaks my heart. However, my daughter tells me that people are not walking around asking how they can be smarter. The intimation is that I am wasting my time trying to teach that. Is there no market? Maybe not; I see such bad judgement all around me. Complaining, and then blocking the very information that would be relief. Misjudgement about real authority. On and on. If you are one of the few, willing to swim against the stream, and want information on how to be smarter as an adult or senior citizen, let me know at info@greatshalom.org

The Government is Not a Village by Sharon Sarles: an orderly rebuttal of H. Clinton’s disorderly, ill-concieved book, It Takes a Village The retort, “No, it takes parents” is cute and makes people feel superior, but it doesn’t help a great deal. It certainly helps neither societal problems nor struggling parents.

Founding Micro-Schools and Re-Founding all of Education

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I’d like to start some micro-schools, because I agree with David Hazell that we have a lot of children to rescue from the government schools.

But, what is a micro-school? It is NOT a one room school house. Let’s consider what each of those is. Then, we will see what the project really is, and how necessary micro=schools are for the many children who have learning problems today. Well, all of our children have learning problems today, if not because of the tainted food supply, and the horrible medical industry, because of how education is conducted these days.

So, let’s also talk about what education and learning should be. If the system is completely corrupt; if reform won’t make enough change, then, what would be our model?  How about the best teacher ever? Let’s wee what we might learn from Him.