The Pomodoro Technique was developed by Francesco Cirilli in the eighties. The word "Pomodoro" literally means tomato in the Italian language and he used the word because most timers look something like a tomato. He used the technique with great success as a undergrad...

There's a lot of advice on what you should be doing in your homeschool classroom, but here's some of the things that you should be avoiding doing with your homeschool students. Not Using a Textbook While you may not want to follow a formal curriculum and textbook, its...

While you teach your homeschool student in the best possible manner, there is always room for improvement. Here are ten relatively simple practices which will make it much easier for your student to remember all that you have ever taught him. 1. Actively Use Recall...

Are you struggling with teaching methods in your homeschool classroom? Knowing how your homeschool students learn, can make it easier for you as a homeschool parent to teach them. There are two primary ways in which the human brain learns. The one that we are most...

Summaries are important not just in the homeschool classroom, but almost everywhere else as well. The ability to cut to the chase in a long winded conversation is appreciated just as much as the ability to pick out the most important points during a presentation in...

Having a summary of a chapter can really help a homeschool student quickly recap everything that it contains. Writing a good summary involves paraphrasing all the important ideas contained in a text. With a little bit of help and guidance from the homeschooling...

As a homeschooling teacher you have probably put together enough lesson plans and scheduled activities to ensure that your homeschool students are in absolutely no danger of missing out on learning important stuff that they should know. Unfortunately ever so often the...

While scientific facts are important, they are not the only memory work that you can set for your homeschool students. Here are some additional choices that you can use when giving out memory work assignments in the homeschool classroom. Reciting poetry is a good way...

There is a lot of memory work involved in learning basic science facts. Just as they must know their multiplication tables, these facts are also considered essential for a well educated person to know. Here is a ready list of science facts that can be used as filler...

A procedure for learning a specific subject is usually a list of activities that you need to do in order to teach that subject in the homeschool classroom. Some topics come with a step by step instruction manual while others are a lot more flexible when being adapted...