Unit Studies for Teachers

Introduction

You’ve planned, plotted, and researched an exciting topic. You’re all fired up to teach it to your children, but the response is definitely ho-hum bored with school. It’s unit studies to the rescue!

Or maybe you’re frustrated trying to shoehorn your children into pre-packaged educational material? Break out of the mold by designing your own material tailored to the interests and needs of your family, your class.

This course will give your educational toolbox a treasure trove of ideas and resources to produce a runaway hit! This is your production, Director. You’ve decided your precious children will learn best at your hands. Let’s see how many imaginative ways we can devise to empower those hands of yours! Make all the world your stage, your family the players as you direct the production – be it simple or grand. Learn the secrets to setting the stage for spectacular unit studies.

“Creating Dynamic Unit Studies” leads you, step by step, through the development of an interdisciplinary unit study tailored to your student’s needs. Many examples, suggestions, and ready-to-roll activities make it fun and easy.

You’ll be studying the teaching tool know as the unit study. However, to implement it well, you’ll also discover the basic styles of learning to help diagnose the best way to teach concepts to your students. Many of the techniques you’ll employ are general enough to apply to all forms of learning, not just unit studies.

Unit Study or Universal Study? Open the universe to your children by orchestrating all the subject learning blocks together in a cohesive, engaging form that is perfectly suited to your children’s way of learning. Unit studies help them connect the dots of the universe which you lay at their feet.

Here in this cyber classroom you’ll friendly advice, a dash of humor, many personal examples of units that worked, some that didn’t and the reasons why. Get practical advice from an 18-year home ed veteran, writer, and course designer/instructor. The warm, chatty style makes learning the teaching enjoyable and affirming, instilling confidence in you – whether a home ed vet or novice – so that you CAN construct the best-ever study units yourself . . . and save money in the process!

Educating the educator – not overwhelming you -- is our goal. The simple style chock-full of ready-to-use examples for all ages, will lead you quickly into building your own unit study.

Home educators, I’m convinced that teaching your children at home will remain an exciting adventure for all of you if you except the fact that YOU are learning, too! Savor the exploration of new learning horizons along with your family. And why not involve the whole family or even friends and other home educators in a really great unit study? This course will show you some spectacular ways to design a truly memorable event worth sharing with others. Unit studies are for everyone. You can involve infants to grandparents in your preparations if you want. This course will help you chart your family’s course to exciting new adventures together!

The concepts are presented in a broad scope for all home educators and other teachers to use. However, there are many hints to aid Christian planners as well.

This course features:

unit studies adaptable to all ages for full-family participation
group project ideas to extend a unit study to your community or involve other home ed families
reproducible pages for you to download or print to help you whip up a cool study tailored to your children’s interests and needs.
images and text files you can alter to fit your needs.
original clipart – even animation! – for you to use. Graphics include:
- generic activity sheets
- theme-related clipart
- theme-related reproducibles (passports, menus, explorer’s & treasure hunter’s maps, . .
- an all-purpose diploma for your unit study graduates
friendly advice with many personal examples of units that worked, some that didn’t – and the reasons why.

So, come on in and join the fun as we not only learn about but actually build a unit study together - a study perfectly tailored to teach your own children . . . and help ALL of you have fun while doing it!