It’s not necessarily education credentials that make the best learning guides. Even an average parent can become a master learning guide and keep their kid(s) in a continuous flow of learning by:
- using the learner’s interests to frame subject matter
- cultivating a love of reading
- build and hone your learning tool box so that you always have the right tool for the right learning context
Your effort here will improve the feeling of your home and enrich your family relationships.
Interests
Interest pages are filled with learning ideas that are relevant to the topics of the pages. Given that learners can only experience flow when engaging with their interests, an interest page is the best place to start.
Love of Reading
How to Raise a Reader is a key resource for understanding how to do this and listed in the interest pages are great, relevant books. Keep in mind the various ways to introduce a book for optimal outcomes. As your learner becomes progressively open to reading, keep in mind these particularly noteworthy and great books:
- The Most Noteworthy Books of All Time
- The Best Children’s Books
- Babies and Toddlers Book List
- Early Childhood Book List
- Late Childhood Book List
- Teenagers Book List
Learning Tool Box
Under development. Every mastered learning and guide tool that you pull from your tool box to guide your kids’ learning will help change the trajectory of their lives. You are showing them how to create, think, and problem solve. All learning ideas throughout the interest pages consist of one learner tool and / or guide tool.
Learner Tools
Abstract
Act Out
Administer
Analyze
Annotate
Apply
Argue
Arrange
Articulate
Ask
Assess
Attribute
Break Down
Calculate
Categorize / Classify
Change
Choose
Choreograph
Collect / Gather
Collect Data
Come to a Conclusion
Comment
Compare / Contrast
Compete
Conclude
Consider
Construct
Continue a Story
Convert
Convince
Cook
Correlate
Create
Create a Game
Create a Model
Criticize
Critique
Debate
Deconstruct
Decorate
Defend
Define / Name
Demonstrate
Describe
Design
Detect
Determine
Diagram
Differentiate
Discover
Discuss
Display
Dissect
Distinguish
Dramatize
Edit
Editorialize
Employ / Use
Estimate
Evaluate
Examine
Exemplify
Exercise
Experience
Experiment
Explain
Explore
Extend
Follow Instructions
Give Examples
Graph
Help / Serve
Highlight / Take Notes
Host an Event
Hypothesize
Identify
Illustrate
Implement
Infer
Interpret
Interview
Investigate
Judge
Justify
Label
Link
List
Listen
Locate
Make a Chart
Make a Timeline
Manipulate
Map
Match
Measure
Memorize
Mind Map
Model
Modify
Order
Organize an Activity
Outline
Paint
Paraphrase
Perform
Persuade
Plan
Plant
Play
Practice
Predict
Prepare
Present
Produce
Question
Read
Recall
Recite
Recognize
Recommend
Reenact
Reflect
Reframe
Reimagine
Relate
Reorder
Repeat
Reproduce
Research
Review
Revise
Rewrite
Role-Play
Run a Business
Schedule
Sculpt
Search
Select
Separate
Show and Tell
Show Relationships
Sketch
Solve
Storyboard
Subdivide
Summarize
Support
Survey
Take a Course
Take a Test
Teach
Test
Translate
Use a Graphic Organizer
Use a Memory Device
Use a Microscope
Use a Rhetorical Device
Validate
Visualize
Volunteer
Watch
Work
Write
Write a How-To Guide
Write a Journal Entry
Write a Letter
Write a Review
Write a Script
Write a Short Story
Write an Article
Write an Essay
Guide Tools
How to Ask a Rhetorical Question
How to Check for Understanding
How to Create a Teachable Moment
How to Encourage a Behavior
How to Explain As You Go
How to Have a Discussion
How to Immerse One’s Self in a Foreign Language
How to Introduce a Book to a Learner
How to Lead By Example
How to Organize a Competition
How to Organize an Activity
How to Teach
How to Teach With an Analogy
How to Use the Socratic Method
What learning methods are missing from this list? Help the community and comment below!