SCHOOL SUCCESS: 500 WAYS BUSY PARENTS CAN HELP THEIR CHILDREN SUCCEED IN SCHOOL
If you are a parent who worries that your children may not be receiving the education they need, but you are afraid you lack the time or skill to help them, this book is for you.
It provides educationally sound, simple and inexpensive step-by-step processes to help children from K-12. The teaching techniques are organized by skill level rather than age level. There are seven sections, each containing several chapters.
1. Parents as Teachers: Suggests ways parents can find time to teach, how and why it is important for them to teach their children, and how to value learning, define school success and set goals.
2. How Children Learn and Study: Presents information about preferred learning styles, multiple intelligences, and techniques for time management, memorization, taking notes, test-taking, and homework.
3. Content Areas: Provides numerous ways of teaching core subjects: reading, writing, spelling, grammar, math, science, social science, citizenship, social studies and computer literacy.
4. Extra-Curricular Activities: Discusses participation in sports, music, art, dance, drama, and clubs. Religion, values, and prejudice are also discussed.
5. Children With Special Needs: Techniques to help children who are gifted, physically challenged, learning disabled, have ADD or ADHD or are reluctant learners.
6. Parents and Teachers: Assists parents as they navigate through the education system. Explains how to have productive parent/teacher conferences and how to understand teachers.
7. Resources: Includes books, magazines, Web sites, organizations, a phonics program, blends and digraphs, a spelling list, list of irregular verbs, multiplication tables, and the 64 division facts.
It provides educationally sound, simple and inexpensive step-by-step processes to help children from K-12. The teaching techniques are organized by skill level rather than age level. There are seven sections, each containing several chapters.
1. Parents as Teachers: Suggests ways parents can find time to teach, how and why it is important for them to teach their children, and how to value learning, define school success and set goals.
2. How Children Learn and Study: Presents information about preferred learning styles, multiple intelligences, and techniques for time management, memorization, taking notes, test-taking, and homework.
3. Content Areas: Provides numerous ways of teaching core subjects: reading, writing, spelling, grammar, math, science, social science, citizenship, social studies and computer literacy.
4. Extra-Curricular Activities: Discusses participation in sports, music, art, dance, drama, and clubs. Religion, values, and prejudice are also discussed.
5. Children With Special Needs: Techniques to help children who are gifted, physically challenged, learning disabled, have ADD or ADHD or are reluctant learners.
6. Parents and Teachers: Assists parents as they navigate through the education system. Explains how to have productive parent/teacher conferences and how to understand teachers.
7. Resources: Includes books, magazines, Web sites, organizations, a phonics program, blends and digraphs, a spelling list, list of irregular verbs, multiplication tables, and the 64 division facts.
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READER REVIEWS
"The reader is gently guided by a knowledgeable, easily approachable professional who genuinely cares for both students and parents. It speaks directly to the intended audience without being patronizing. I wish I'd had it when I was a single dad."
Dr. K.J. Booth, Educator and Parent
READER REVIEWS
"The reader is gently guided by a knowledgeable, easily approachable professional who genuinely cares for both students and parents. It speaks directly to the intended audience without being patronizing. I wish I'd had it when I was a single dad."
Dr. K.J. Booth, Educator and Parent