The Homeschool Advantage
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The Homeschool Advantage
Focus on your child's strengths and passions to support lifelong learning
The Homeschool Advantage provides parents with practical tools to teach and engage their children at home. By focusing on their children's strengths and passions, rather than on their limitations, parents can foster a love of learning that will last a lifetime. All children have passions, talents, and interests that can be promoted and developed, supporting their achievement and wellbeing. In this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how to shift their mindset from focusing on deficits to tapping into a child's strengths. Whether their child has a passion for reading, sports, theatre, or anything else, this book will help parents focus on the passions of their homeschooled child.
This versatile book will encourage both new and experienced homeschooling parents, caregivers, and educators. It describes strengths-based and child-focused educational practices and offers clear instructions for using them inside any home, with any age learner. The book features anecdotes from homeschooling parents and children from around the world, and it will help parents spark a love of learning that will last a lifetime!
- Discover how a strengths-based approach to homeschooling can help your kids thrive
- Learn how to foster your children's social, cognitive, and creative development at home
- Get practical tools for enriching childhood and creating a homeschool you'll love
- Build a deeper connection with your children by fostering a shared love of learning
This conversational and informative book is essential reading for homeschool parents. It inspires parents to empower their children to approach life with curiosity, enthusiasm, and confidence.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781394205738
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 July 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Sybex Inc.,U.S.
Contributors:
- Foreword by Sarah MacKenzie
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 226.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
COLLEEN KESSLER, M.Ed., is an award-winning educator, educational coach, consultant, and advocate for the needs of differently-wired children and their families. She spent 10+ years in the traditional classroom, where she worked with gifted students and developed programs that focused on students' passions. After leaving the classroom, Colleen had her own twice-exceptional kiddos and began homeschooling them. Since then, Colleen has founded Raising Lifelong Learnersβa website and podcast where she shares tools, stories, and advice on homeschooling and teaching neurodivergent children.
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