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Journals can be be great educational tools. Today there are a wide range of journals in many subjects, and for all ages.

Subscribe to a publication like children is recommended as a means of having a regular basis with new resources.

The magazines can eat alone, or read and comment on family, interesting debates sometimes arise as a result of the joint reading of a journal article. Just the other day we were reading aloud and commenting on an interview conducted by Cristina Sáez Roger Shank, education expert for the magazine “Networking for Science” Eduardo Punset, and discuss it at that precise moment, a topic leads to another and end up talking about education, teaching methods, history, politics, etc..

Reading an article on physics results in an interesting discussion of string theory, and so almost every article that calls attention to one reason or another.

There are magazines very well made, with relevant information, and are highly specialized techniques, or more informative and light. This is to try a few and see what we like and care more. Read the rest of this entry »

Speaking of education at home almost always talk about methods, pedagogies, resources specific to a given area, and do not comment on how much we use as an educational board games, to develop all kinds of skills and abilities. I wonder sometimes the process itself, the reading and understanding the instructions (some have a crumb, and at home my little boy understands and stores much better than his father or me, for example), the classification of chips, parts, etc, the gameplay itself, the conversations and interaction that occurs … Some games are very simple, but others are more complicated for some you have to find the translation of the instructions or get to read in English because it’s like they come from, there are pure entertainment, but also logic, geography, language, history , strategy, speaking, mime, theater or help to be outgoing, empathetic … I love everything that revolves around a board game, collusion, concentration, use of logic, patience, respect, honesty … They are useful tools to work different aspects in a playful way. Here’s a list of some of the most entertaining and sought after by children:

“Mathematicians” Rummycub

“Motor” Castellers, Bandu

“Letters” Boogle, Tic Tac Boom, Hangman, Scrable …

“Science”: Bioviva

“History”: Mission History, Wildlife Read the rest of this entry »

Being a mom or a dad homeschooler implies a proactive towards life actitudd constant. That is one of the definitive traits of parents homeschooling their proactive about everything that affects the lives of their children: the academic, cultural, moral, emotional and physical health of their children. They are proactive about their social life, to pursue similar relationships with others who are rich and full, looking for suitable environments, spaces that invite the sharing, learning and fun. But often many people wonder how I can But be proactive? How I can be sure I am being?

The answer is very simple and very difficult to implement on many occasions, but you can learn. To take a proactive approach is necessary to develop a state of “readiness” for our children. We must be “available” ready to listen, to interrupt us, to demand attention, ask, wish to participate in everything we do, join us for all sorts of places, to share with them our friends … Read the rest of this entry »

Losing your temper, exhaustion, being tired or tired at times, is inherent to motherhood, whether you train at home if you bring them to school. That has to do with how you train, if not human.

Mothers who educate at home trying to resolve conflicts with and among our children as we can, but that prevents us from having to apologize for having sometimes lost his temper, but that is also part of learning to know the rest human beings around you also get tired and also need some space, and besides that, they see something that does not happen only to them that mom or dad, or grandmother, or adults, are not perfect , which also have their tantrums, and it is more easy to take your own. All mothers have things we want to improve, it is inevitable.

If there is something that clearly makes you the fact that homeschooling is to develop patience, you and your children from them too. Thus, the more time you spend with them develop more patience, and they, too, the more they get used to sharing time and space between them have more patience. In fact, just look for some mothers in summer, are hysterical and wanting children back to school … or only have three months to spend all day with their children and can do things with them, and they are nervous and overwhelmed because they are not accustomed to spending so much time with their children when they should be thrilled to finally be able to enjoy the kids, but not always. Spend many hours together is a great way to encourage and increase patience, there is no alternative and patience is like the universe is continually expanding to unsuspected limits. Read the rest of this entry »

Homeschooling works, something that any parent with children and older homeschooler can explain. The homeschooled children as they grow are perfectly integrated into society, have good study habits and work are to be sociable, find jobs or start their own business, and enjoy a full life. Many pursue careers in universities and get good grades.

When anyone reads this and is considering starting to homeschool, or are immersed in it, they often question but how I can be sure I do it well? What educational and pedagogical method is best? And the answer is this: There is no miracle method. The success of home education for their children depends on whether you use conventional or alternative methods, nor whether they are more or less rigid, and the time devoted globally, or the materials used. None of this is definitive. I have met many families homeschool, of all kinds, whether you did the same thing you do in school were almost or exclusively the interests of their children. At the end of the method, or lack thereof did not affect the final result: young people with a culture medium-high, full of curiosity about the world around them, with hobbies and interests defined a high level of sociability, responsible and proactive attitude .

I will tell you which are the actual keys that do that, the real secret of success of homeschooling. There are several things that coexistence is facilitated by intensive is when not sent their children to school:

Respect, consistency, enhancing children’s self-esteem, confidence and encouraging their entrepreneurial capacity. Read the rest of this entry »

Trust your child, encourage him, lay it. Respect their pace, accompany their interests, offer constant love and everything works, you may not see it at first, it seems it costs, you’re stuck, but the medium term will start seeing the fruits it bears treat your children as beings human right, relying on their abilities  their concerns.

It is important to accompany the children on things that interest them, encourage them, even enthusiastic about their hobbies. One of the most important things that gives you homeschool is to have time, especially for children. Suddenly they find they have time for themselves and want to use it in multiple ways, and that time is important to respect their decisions and understand that almost anything goes. Almost everything they do contributes something our kids, whether playing, reading, playing sports, building models or sing, even when it seems to do nothing your mind is working. It is important to learn to appreciate everything our kids do, because everything leads to learning and enrichment, if only you know yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

When we educate at home is important that we offer our children involved a relationship with other adults, so they get an idea of ​​how the world and its inhabitants and the diversity that exists around us. It is important to spend time with family and relatives in one direction and wider.

Invite friends to spend days at home, visit family, meet others to do projects together, share a meal together, visit museums, go to the park … activities are always recommended.

Building relationships of love and friendship between children and adults is something that will produce many long-term benefits to our children. To begin learning to relate to people of all ages, they take confidence to deal with all kinds of people, not living with the adult relationship as a relationship or subordination or confrontational, sometimes as often seen in traditional education systems , rather they live as a relationship of mutual respect and empathy and helps them build networks of trust and affection. as necessary throughout childhood and puberty. Read the rest of this entry »

Since my student life I know the concept of tutoring, often help with mathematics colleagues chemistry. We used to study for a test and always ended up explaining the exercises and methodology. When I was in college to win some money tutoring math and it just did engineer being the first months and leave him to do my first year of practice.

But life had prepared me again the way of teaching and being a teacher programming help my physics students for free as a promotion were very supportive and charisma created was to help-help. The idea was always to help students to reason, so I asked them questions to answer and begin to understand the approach and repeatedly told them, “those kinds of questions you should ask yourself when you are reading the problems.” Upon completion of this experience and ethical opt partculares not teach my students.

Now I’m in the math classroom, I meet many students who face exercises to make them prefer not to take them to your tutor. And I wonder: What does the tutor? Will that new exercises and may put the student prefers to bring the assigned classroom teacher, thinking it will pass the next test? One student replied when asked, “Is your teacher does not teach you to think? Of course, if taught me, “then said,” Well, prove it now by this problem. ” If class is given all the tools for students to develop their skills, because there is a reluctance to confront and prefer to give freedom to distraction? Read the rest of this entry »

The fact that we are witnessing a phenomenon of society dominated by or from the media, whose most visible manifestation is a continuous evolution and renovation of the messages, confronts us with a kind of reflection that must necessarily be multifaceted. We are moving from the era of mechanized reproduction of cybernetic systems. Based on the ability to manipulate images and sounds that provide techniques such as scanning, computer graphics, holography, and so on., We are witnessing not only a technological but specific changes they produce effects that a clear impact on our cultural perceptions and experiential.
Innovation in school

The players often develop a unique educational sensitivity in relation to changes in the sociological reality, technological and political. This sensitivity or reaction conditions the way to capture such phenomena in classrooms. The real educational innovation has to do with ethics that teachers bring into play to resolve the moral dilemmas posed by their profession.

These new approaches necessarily affect the search for new roles to be played by the audiovisual media in teaching. Its possible contribution to innovation lies not in better information, but encourage new teaching strategies. It is necessary to establish its non-integration into the curriculum development process is, from a cultural point of view, a serious break with reality existing outside the classroom. It is not possible to analyze this phenomenon solely as a technical problem or structural. Its significance goes beyond the fact of having or not with media in the school and its corresponding material passing through. We are talking about the media, outside the classroom, continuously transmit social behavior patterns, attitudes, values, habits, priorities informative, but also narrative structures, ways of organizing information or symbols with a universal vocation. Therefore contribute significantly to shape the way we learn to understand the world in which we live. Read the rest of this entry »

In recent years there has been a very important educational phenomenon with implications of which not everyone is aware.
It is the movement of “homeschooling,” or home school. Thousands of parents, initially in the U.S. and then in the rest of the world have decided to withdraw their children from educational institutions in order to educate themselves at home.

If instead the number of children are being educated at home today is irrelevant – in the U.S. are no more than 1 to 2% – the results obtained are.

We have seen that children who are “homeschooling”:
- Are 2 to 3 courses more advanced than their peers of the same age.
- They are very creative.
- Know analyze situations, solve problems and make decisions.
- Be able to adapt to the demands of the real world.
- They have initiative.
- Motif
- Make projects designed for them.
- They are natural leaders in a group context.
- DO NOT have socialization problems. Read the rest of this entry »