If you have shopped around for homeschool curriculum, you have probably encountered the term mastery learning. Some homeschool parents are very passionate about teaching for mastery, and homeschooling provides an ideal environment to do so. But is mastery-based learning best for your homeschool? How can you take advantage of some of its strengths? Here are some things to consider before making the switch to mastery learning.
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Psalm 25: David’s Prayer of Faith in Times of Trouble
What is your favorite book of the Bible? Perhaps you are like me and often find yourself gravitating toward the book of Psalms when opening your Bible. Maybe you and I are drawn to it because we can often see ourselves in the varied emotions of the Psalmists. We find comfort knowing that the writers experienced and felt some of the same things that we do.
The Psalms give us words for expressing our own emotions of fear, joy, loneliness, confusion, anger, and more. But they also do more than that. They teach us how to rightly respond to the different circumstances that led to those emotions in the first place. Psalm 25 is no exception. It is a guide to all of us who find ourselves in times of trouble.
The Creation Mandate: What does it mean to be fruitful and multiply?
In Genesis, God gave a mandate to humans—be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over living creatures. This command from God places the responsibility to take care of the earth and all its creatures on all generations. You may not know whether your child grow up to be a doctor, fireman, or astrophysicist, but we do know that it’s God’s will for every person—both old and young—to obey the creation mandate. As parents and teachers, it is our responsibility to teach our children what it means to be fruitful, replenish and subdue the earth, and have dominion over creation.
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7 Reading Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is perhaps the most important skill your student will ever learn. And it’s not easy. At first, the struggle to read individual words is an almost painful experience—your student must concentrate so hard to identify each letter and its correct sound. It might take several seconds to read just one word. Thankfully, with practice reading gets easier, but improving reading comprehension involves so much more than just learning to pronounce an individual word correctly. We want students to understand the message of the words on the page. That’s why teaching reading comprehension strategies is so important.
7 Types of Learning Styles and Their Importance in Education
The idea that everyone has a unique type of learning style has been an accepted part of educational theory for decades. Every person is different, so the existence of different kinds of learners seems to make sense. But recent studies have suggested that knowing your child’s learning style isn’t as important as giving children every opportunity to learn. Some studies even suggest that learning styles as we know them are just a myth. Are learning styles just a myth? Recent studies show they may not be as valid as previously believed. First, let’s consider what a learning style is.