The sudden appearance of a worldwide pandemic, and the closure of most schools across the United States, has left many parents scrambling to provide homeschooling for their kids. While in many cases the schools have taken the lead in this effort and are providing online learning for their students, in other cases parents are more or less left on their own in coming up with curricula, lesson plans, learning materials, and teaching strategies to help their kids continue to make progress academically.
In this post, I’ve gathered together thirty-five of my favorite blog posts which focus on teaching and learning for kids from kindergarten through high school. This ”starter kit” includes links covering topics that new homeschooling parents can put to work right away in their homeschooling programs (or use to supplement existing home school programs). Topics include:
- basic homeschooling tips
- guidelines for understanding how your child or teen learns best
- strategies for learning within specific areas such as math, reading, and science
- general tips for creating a powerful learning environment in your home
- advice for handling discipline, behavior, and attention span issues
- ideas for adapting homeschooling to the needs of kids with special needs such as ADHD, dyslexia, and autism.
Simply click on any or all of these topics to learn more.
General Homeschooling Tips
- Options for Homeschooling your Child or Teen During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- 10 tips for Teaching Your Kids at Home During the Pandemic
Understanding How Your Child Learns
- 8 Kinds of Smart: A Checklist for Identifying Your Child’s Multiple Intelligences
- 5 Ways to Teach Your Kids About How They Learn Best
- Creating Learning Strategies for Any Subject
- Homeschooling 101: Learning Must Connect to Your Child’s Personal Life
- Homeschooling Your Kids About HowThey Learn Best
- Do Your Know Your Child’s Strengths? Here are 165 Possibilities
General Teaching/Learning Tips
- 8 Ways to Pique Your Kids’ Learning Curiosity
- 7 Ways to Awaken Your Child’s Genius
- 8 Ways to Make Homework More Exciting
- 8 Ways to Learn Practically Anything
- 8 Ways to Start a School Lesson
- 8 Ways to Teach Practically Anything
- 5 Ways to Reawaken Your Child’s Love of Learning
Tips for Helping Your Child With Reading and Writing Skills
- 8 Ways to Build a Better Vocabulary
- Teaching Reading Comprehension
- How to Teach Reading with Oral Language
- Teaching Reading Using Emotions
- 15 Ways to Use Microsoft Word as an Adaptive Learning Tool for Writing
- 8 Kinds of Books for Your Child
- 8 Ways to Teach Phonics
Other Specific Learning Strategies
- Teaching a Physics Concept to Your Kids
- Teaching Exponential Math to Help Your Child Understand Covid-19 Pandemic Curves
- 8 Ways to Teach Spelling Skills
- 8 Ways to Teach Multiplication
Behavior, Discipline, and Attention Span Issues
- 7 Ways to Help Your Child Focus
- 101 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior and Attention Span
- Discover and Manage the 4 Types of Misbehavior in Kids
Helping Kids with Special Needs
- 7 Ways to Bring Out the Best in Special Needs Students
- 11 Ways to Teach Academic Skills to Visual-Spatial Learners
- 7 Ways to Adapt the Common core Standards for Students with Special Needs
- 7 Great Strength-Based Apps for Students with Special Needs
- 17 Ways to Teach Vocabulary Skills to Neurodiverse Students
- 50 Practical Strategies for Treating ADHD without Drugs
I’ll be continuing to blog over the course of this pandemic to provide vital information about education and learning to homeschooling parents throughout the U.S. and the world. It is my hope that I can put my nearly fifty years in education to good use in offering some practical tools to make your homeschooling experience with your kids highly successful and rewarding!
For more information on helping your child learn according to his strengths and abilities, see my best-selling book: In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child’s Multiple Intelligences
. For hundreds of learning strategies that you can incorporate into your home school, see my book Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 4th Edition
(over half a million copies in print in all editions).
This page was brought to you by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. and www.institute4learning.com.
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