New to Homeschooling or Want to Learn How to Homeschool?
Homeschooling for Excellence 101
July 25, 2019 – 10 AM to 4 PM
Many parents considering or just beginning to homeschool would like to have personalized help. Homeschooling for Excellence 101 is a one-day conference where homeschool parents can get individualized answers for their own personal situations from other seasoned homeschooling parents. Children ages four and up can attend the KidsZone program while parents attend the Homeschooling For Excellence 101 Conference. Parents will learn how to homeschool! Topics included but not limited to:
- Where do I begin?
- What materials should I choose? There are so many!
- How can I encourage my child to learn?
- How will I fill my child’s time – will he be lonely?
The homeschool lifestyle is so much more than just ABC’s and 123’s. It includes a lifestyle that encourages learning all the time and 
learning together. Bringing frantic, fragmented family lives back together can seem inviting and at the same time mystifying. Not knowing what to do throws parents into a whirl of confusion and concern. Each parent is uniquely qualified to educate their own child. The Homeschooling for 
Excellence Workshops are designed with extra time and personalized attention for your unique situation. In a friendly and encouraging small group environment, top notch, enthusiastic homeschool parents will share their wisdom and pass along lots of information on how you can make the best decisions for educating your own child. Learn how to homeschool!
IMPORTANT!
Homeschooling for Excellence 101 registration automatically includes registration for the Southeast Homeschool Expo so you can return on Friday and Saturday for the Southeast Homeschool Expo and additional workshops for NO additional charge!
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Speakers
Alice Reinhardt
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Jennifer Henn
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Mark St. Denis
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Thomas Clark
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Schedule
Each Session, you decide which one of two options you want to attend . If you aren’t interested in one, you can move to the other. It’s that easy!
- 10:00 AM
- Who, What, Where and When: Beginning Homeschooling – Alice Reinhardt
- Alice enthusiastically helps parents learn how to get started, review the homeschool laws, where to find educational materials, other activities including sports leagues for homeschool children, how to occasionally locate someone else to teach subjects such as chemistry and the value of homeschool support groups. Learn to take the guesswork out of choosing curriculum by assessing each curriculum, determining whether or not you need a curriculum, and what will meet the specific needs of your child and family.
- Growing Into Homeschooling – Jennifer Henn
- Whether you are considering homeschooling with a five year old or bringing your older child home from public or private school, this class will go over homeschooling basics. Many people feel intimidated to take on the task of homeschooling. Jennifer will cover how to get started and what your expectations should be. She shares tips on organization, how much time to spend schooling and how to enjoy your kids. She’ll also go over: What does the law require? What do I need to teach? How do I know if I’m doing enough? This is an informative workshop with an opportunity to have your questions answered.
- Who, What, Where and When: Beginning Homeschooling – Alice Reinhardt
- 11:45 AM
- Lunch (on your own).
- 1:00 PM
- Choosing Curriculum – Friend or Foe – Alice Reinhardt
- Entering a curriculum hall can be like being run over by a steamroller. Confusion, frustration, and a feeling of being overwhelmed by a myriad of choices sets in. Alice shares her ideas that allow parents to take the guesswork out of choosing curriculum by assessing each curriculum and determining whether that particular curriculum meets the specific needs of their child and their family.
- Socialization – Jennifer Henn
- When schooling your child at home, you decide the who, what, where, and when of their social life. Jennifer tells how to socialize your children and explains the advantages homeschooled kids have over their traditionally schooled peers. She’lll also explain co-ops, hybrid schools, enrichment classes, and cyber school.
- Choosing Curriculum – Friend or Foe – Alice Reinhardt
- 2:45 PM
- Computers Enhance Effectiveness and Enjoyment of Homeschooling – Mark St. Denis
- Homeschooling isn’t just with pencil and paper anymore. Now, there is a remarkable array of computer based curriculum materials and other homeschool helps. Mark helps participants understand what to look for and how to avoid getting ripped off when purchasing software programs. He arms participants with specific information and tips to help make wise choices and avoid costly mistakes when choosing materials for their homeschool. Discussion includes a variety of homeschool software programs, computer based curriculum, record keeping, and other programs to help all students.
- Curriculum Hacks: Considerations for Choosing and Using Curriculum – Jennifer Henn
- We’ll discuss homeschooling methods, types of curriculum, tips for choosing textbooks, and how to make the best use of resources in your community and online. Your curriculum should guide and teach, but not box you into doing things one way. Jennifer will teach you how to: plan field trips, incorporate projects into your lessons, and create unit studies where each child studies the same topics and utilizes multiple learning styles.
- Computers Enhance Effectiveness and Enjoyment of Homeschooling – Mark St. Denis
- 4:00 PM – Primary HS101 Sessions Adjourn – Guest Speaker Tom Clark continues the day below – Join his sessions at your convenience
- 4:00 PM – The Seven Laws of Teaching at Home – Thomas Clark
- Are we, as parents, sufficiently equipped to teach our own children? Admittedly, we have had little, if any, “formal training”, or “certification”. How can we be confident that our children are going to be well-educated? This informative and entertaining session with Tom Clark, is based on, and adapted from, the respected work of John Milton Gregory, and will focus on effective strategies of instruction which are understandably simple, educationally sound, and ethically founded. Veteran homeschoolers, and newcomers alike, will discover some new ideas, reinforce existing practices, and be encouraged to continue the homeschooling commitment.
- 5:00 PM – Homeschooling Math Without a Plan? You’ve Got to be Kidding! – Thomas Clark
- This workshop is designed to help parent-educators understand the scope, the sequence, and the logic of mathematics instruction from pre-school through adult. Join Tom Clark, founder of VideoText Interactive, and author of “Algebra: A Complete Course”, and “Geometry: A Complete Course”, as he takes you on a sometimes humorous journey, describing all levels of arithmetic and all mathematics courses encountered in high school and college. In addition, considerable attention will be given to identifying the “why” of the study of mathematics with an emphasis on the development of concepts, instead of rote memorization.
- 4:00 PM – The Seven Laws of Teaching at Home – Thomas Clark