Category Archives: Teaching

Testimony About the use of Innovative Educational Practices

To celebrate GSB’s 10th birthday, let’s return to the original two testimonies. In this, I tell about how much progress my grandsons made when I used some innovative practices. I hope it gives you great faith and determination — and maybe some good ideas. Never give up with your children!

And don’t necessarily believe that the grim outcomes that “the system” predicts if you use better measures. Indeed, a comment was made about “the system” being so fake (whether it is food, financial, monetary, religious or educational) that I thought was insightful. If you want to go deep into the idea, here it is: Fake Food and Fake Money on the McAlvany Weekly Commentary

Principles from the Founding of the USA on This National Day of Prayer

Today, 5/3/18 is the National Day of Prayer. So, since I am doing a retrospective series, I thought I would post the first of the series I did on Citizenship for July the 4 back in 2012. Home educators in Texas know that they are tasked with teaching citizenship; would that all teachers took the same as seriously! All of us should pray earnestly for our leaders and in order to live in peace, just as we are instructed by the Bible. Current events would lend some urgency to that recommendation!

This episode was the first of 5 that dealt with the founding of this country, its Christian roots, and what lessons we might draw from that. I was reading the Primer that school children of that period were taught from and so I made an audio primer. It would be very good to buy for your children or grandchildren. Indeed, we all might be edified by its lessons. Normally the bundle of the 5 messages plus the hour long CD would run $100, but for this week, let’s have a special and offer the whole things for half price: $50.00. Please send a check to Sharon Sarles/The Great Shalom P.O. Box 971 Cedar Park Texas 78613 and I will send the CDs to you.

When the Road to Reading Gets Rocky: Other Resources

In our series about what to do when your child is having trouble learning to read, today we talk about a variety of other resources for teaching spelling and getting help.

The next two weeks we will have interviews with good representatives to a couple of important providers.

Please feel free to share other resources that you have found that have helped your children/students.

When the Road to Reading is Rocky – More Ideas for Literacy and Numeracy

Last week I told you how I teach reading to children who are having a hard time learning to read. Today I give you more ideas for reading related activities and a few for mathematics. Please add yours below? Or come to Facebook: Great Shalom