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One Day Workshops/Convention Workshops
Workshops are necessary forms of encouragement to homeschool parents/teachers as well as anyone else involved in the education and learning of children. People, especially those teaching others, can become burned out. Kathryn Stout can help you keep a fresh prespective on your teaching and your children's development—helping to keep you from burning out.
Interested in have Kathryn Stout speak to your group, organization, or school district? Find out how to make it a reality with One-Day Workshops; contact us.
Kathryn Stout offers a variety of workshops. Choose from any one of her past convention workshops (see descriptions below) or experience the one-on-one care that is offered through her one-day workshop "The Art of Teaching: Paint by number or Masterpiece?" As a high quality speaker Kathryn can deliver the perfect message suited for your group or organizations. With a background in special education and trouble shooting problem learners new topics are always being prepared for those who are willing to learn from the best: new workshops are being created that deal with specialized issues such as mental disabilities like autism, and other issues like early childhood development. For any questions about Workshop topics please email or call (1.800.965.2719)
Below find:
One-Day Workshop typical schedule
Summarization of "The Art of Teaching"
Descriptions of Past Convention Workshops
One-Day Workshop typical schedule
One-Day Workshop typical schedule (based on "The Art
of Teaching")
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Registration
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. How to Teach So Kids Will Love to Learn
Keep your kids excited about learning. Turn them into thinkers without exhausting
yourself or your checking account.
10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Making History Interesting, Real, and Valuable
It’s important for children to learn the ideas, interrelationships,
and values of the people in the past, not just names and dates. Accomplish
this while having fun!
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 – 12:15 p.m. Simple Techniques for Success in Science and Math
Teach to promote discovery, reasoning, understanding and retention of concepts
and skills.
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break (Question & Answer Time/Shopping)
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Teaching English: Literature and Reading Comprehension
Teach your children to analyze, appreciate, and learn from literature while
building skill in critical thinking.
2:00 – 2:10 p.m. Break
2:10 – 3:00 p.m. Teaching Composition, Spelling, and Grammar
Here are the keys for building clarity of thought as part of the writing
process as well as strategies to build confidence and retention in spelling.
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Organizational Ideas for Pulling It All Together
Spend less time planning and keeping records so you have more time to actually
teach!
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Ask Kathryn questions or look over the Design-A-Study books and tapes available at the workshop.
Return to topSummarization of "The Art of Teaching"
"The Kathryn Stout [all-day seminar] is one of the very few workshops that I’ve ever attended that I could take home the ideas and immediately put them to use. Kathryn will teach you how to teach—anything. I highly recommend this workshop and the Kathryn Stout Design-A-Study curriculum, for both new and experienced homeschool parents!" Vicki Falco, Director, Champion Preparatory Academy
Find out how to keep kids excited about learning. Turn them into thinkers and independent learners without exhausting you or your checking account. Kathryn Stout, Christian educator, consultant, and author will share teaching strategies that promote a problem solving atmosphere, replace boredom or frustration with a love of learning, and overcome the "I can't, I won't" syndrome. Her insights will help you teach every age—toddler through teens—with greater success.
She will show you how to teach:
• to different learning styles, including children with disabilities
• to strengthen weak areas
• to enhance love of learning
• to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills
• using a variety of techniques, including unit studies, to teach
multi-levels
• history so that people seem real
• composition so that growth is evident
• poor spellers to spell
• critical reading comprehension skills
• science that actually sticks
(what good is memorization when they don't understand the concepts?)
• math so that it makes sense
(get past the "I don't get it, just tell me what to do" stage)
AND
• She will share organizational ideas for pulling it all together.
Descriptions of Past Convention Workshops
Classic Movies as Literature
Are your teens able to analyze literature? Can they articulate why they
like or don't like a movie? If not, they may find themselves accepting a
jumble of philosophies without really thinking. Stories entertain, but they
also teach. By developing the ability to critique movies, teens will not
only be better protected from absorbing wrong influences, but will be better
able to analyze any literature. This workshop includes a discussion of story
elements and film techniques, questions to ask, and movies that can be used
for students ages 13-18.
Developing Attitudes and Habits: What’s Important—And When
There’s a best time for developing attitudes and habits that affect
not only your child’s character, but also his ability to learn beyond
high school. If bad habits have already been acquired there are techniques
to replace them with good ones. Kathryn shares specific goals, explains
their importance, and provides teaching strategies to reach those objectives.
This workshop is a must not only for those wanting to get the right start,
but for anyone teaching a child between ages 11and 14 that has been in a
public school.
Homeschooling the Challenging Child
Kathryn Stout describes methods for effectively teaching children that seem
to require a great deal of one-on-one attention. This includes children
who are gifted, those who have difficulty with understanding and/or retention,
those that can’t seem to pay attention, and children who just seem
to protest everything you assign. Specific suggestions are made for balancing
your time so that your other children are not neglected.
How to Teach Composition
Every child should be able to express himself logically and succinctly.
Kathryn shows
you how to teach composition so that even kids who "hate to write"
will change their minds. Practical suggestions include how to remove common
obstacles to good writing, ways to hone skills at a pace comfortable for
each child, and ideas for tying composition topics to other subject areas
to keep writing relevant (and save you teaching time). She also gives keys
to evaluation so that you can help your children build skills instead of
simply completing assignments.
The Hows and Whys of a Unit-Study Approach to History
Save planning time while helping kids develop a greater understanding of
the people and events being studied. Not only will history become real and
exciting, but geography and science lessons will make more sense, too. Use
nonfiction books that have kid-appeal, literature that broadens their perspective,
and enjoyable activities that leave them with English skills that would
have otherwise been tedious to acquire. Kathryn Stout, author and educator,
will share specifics for all ages, including discussion and composition
topics for grades 7 - 12 that require analytical thinking.
Make It Easy on Yourself
Put the spark back into your homeschool! Turn kids into thinkers and independent
learners without exhausting yourself or your bank account. Children trained
to love learning become a joy to teach. Learning becomes their goal, not
just another assignment. If that's what you want for your children, here
are specific methods to use with children of all ages. Examples include
activity ideas and methods for teaching multi-levelly that will make your
job easier while developing these qualities in your children.
Math That Makes Sense
Children need to understand math, not just memorize formulas and reproduce
them with practice. Help kids get past the “I don’t get it,
just tell me what to do” stage with these practical techniques for
teaching children from preschool to grade 8. Encourage discovery, logic,
and reasoning in order to develop the "math sense" necessary for
your children's future day-to-day living.
Science That Sticks
Everyone loves to "do" science--but do the concepts “stick”?
Kathryn explains how to teach science to children of all ages with a minimum
of planning, using a variety of fun and interesting materials, and with
the assurance that basic concepts and skills will be understood and retained.
Strategies for Teaching and Learning Spelling
Give your children (or yourself) the tools needed to learn and retain correct
spelling. Kathryn explains why so many approaches fail to help children
remember how to spell words beyond the test. She offers simple techniques
that anyone can use to turn that around. This is not an attempt at photographic
memory. Rather, it is the use of strategies that allow children to become
confident in their ability to learn. These approaches are used in Kathryn's
award-winning book Natural Speller, a complete spelling program for all
ages.
Teaching English – What’s Essential?
Do your children dig beyond the basic plot, analyzing, appreciating, and
learning life lessons from literature? Do they compose interesting and well-supported
essays that reflect their ability to think critically? Or, do they merely
parrot back the plot and fill in the blanks by rote? Kathryn discusses the
components of English in light of ultimate goals. She explains how to get
the essentials out of English, even while working toward objectives in other
subjects.
Teaching Kids to Think
Too often we merely tell our children what to think. However, if we don't
also teach them how to think, they may become easy prey for anyone who appears
to speak with authority. A few minutes each week filling out critical thinking
worksheets is not enough. Instead, we need to create a learning atmosphere
that encourages reasoning, supporting opinions, and problem-solving. Kathryn
shows you how to do this with a minimum of effort while covering requirements
in basic subjects—reading comprehension, composition, science, and
math.
Teaching Teenagers to Think Critically
Arm your teens with protection from worldly propaganda. Kathryn Stout offers
teaching strategies that are easily incorporated into basic subjects—literature,
composition, history, and government—and certain to build skills in
analyzing what is read, watched, and heard. Examples focus on teaching students
in junior and senior high school.
Teaching Tips That Really Work
Whether your child is gifted, struggling, a bit of both, or somewhere in
between, there are approaches that will replace boredom or frustration with
a love of learning. Kathryn discusses how to overcome the "I can't,
I won't" syndrome, teach through strengths, build up weak areas, and
create a problem-solving atmosphere.