Employability Skills Training for High School/College Students from QuickCert.com
By Michael Leppert
QuickCert.com is one of the leading online training companies for the full Microsoft Office suite and a complete array of certification for technical software and programming applications. But even more impressive is its new online Employability Skills Package beginning September 1, 2010. The ES program is created and presented online by a 30-year Human Resources professional.
LEARNING THE PIANO IN THE HOMESCHOOL CLASSROOM DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE
Excerpted from Dreamers by Lucy Jo Palladino
We may all agree or disagree on the benefits of adding music to a well-rounded home school curriculum. After twelve years of homeschooling, I’m sure I could put up a wonderful argument in its defense. BUT – if you already have decided to add Music instruction to your child’s homeschool education and you have your heart set on piano, the good news is that it does not have to be expensive.
Grammar has historically borne a scarlet letter on par with Hester Prynne’s. It walked this world largely alone, with only a punctilious few whose affinity for grammar seemingly began in-utero, as its only champion. The rest of us have ambled through our daily lives, desperately hoping we never encountered these scarlet letters and unwittingly imposed on them our tin ear for language—and their invariable earful about our apathetic destruction of the language they so cherish. Yet as of late, grammar has begun to relinquish its status as a sideshow of education, unshackling itself from its pariah image, and is emerging to be a power player in schools, in educational discourse, and in daily life.
Enabling your child’s unique gifts without constraint
By Sarita Holzmann
“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” —Beatrix Potter
When children discover their gifts, they can thrive in life, serve God and others, maximize their talents, find confidence, tap into their calling, and change the world by doing what they love best.
It is likely that you already realize the value of your children’s God-created identities. Now you want to help them find and respond to God’s calling in their lives. But how do you help them discover their gifts and talents?
I want to address an issue that regularly comes up this time of the year with the end of the school year.
Are you confused or concerned about whether to keep homeschooling next year? There are a few questions that need to be answered before one can determine the answer:
Is your doubt a result of frustrating homeschool days? There could be many causes for frustrating days and the best of us have those, so don’t feel alone. As soon as the cause can be identified though, a solution might be found. Here are some possible causes for frustrations as well as some possible solutions:
By Dr. Marcie Zinn,Attainment Center for Neuro Education
What is Cognitive Development and how does it help us educate our children? After all, as parents, it is really obvious that children at different ages, have capabilities that are roughly commensurate with their age. 6-month-olds cannot walk, toddlers do not present their ideas in the same manner as a 10-year-old, and teenagers are closer to adults than children. So, how does developmental science help a parent when they have a “case study” right there, in front of them, every day? How can developmental science give a parent, who is constructing a curriculum, real help?
