In this workshop Faith shares from her own homeschool experience (the wins and the fails), tips for teaching the wiggly one, the unmotivated or reluctant one, and the bright but struggling one. From one homeschooling mama to another, teaching “that one”-Faith shares from a heart of empathy and faith in the Lord, that you can do this and home education truly is a customizable educational plan to help your “that one” reach his full, God-given potential.

In this fun and interactive workshop, Faith demonstrates fun and engaging card games and other activities that are part of the Equipping Minds Cognitive Curriculum Program. This program is appropriate for students of all ages and helps to build and strengthen foundational cognitive, language, thinking, logic and reasoning, processing, and executive function skills in a powerful way. Faith shares how and why to be sure to incorporate games into your homeschool plans.

In this informative workshop, Faith defines what dyslexia is (and what it is not), discusses the different types of dyslexia, as well as levels of struggle (mild, moderate, severe), and then offers hope by sharing the types of necessary teaching methods, research-based interventions, and programs that you can implement in your private school or homeschool. Faith offers hope and encouragement in addition to teaching tips, tricks, and strategies to add to your teaching toolkit.

Do you have a student who is having reading difficulties? This session introduces the 5 Pillars of Reading: phonemic awareness, phonics (decoding and word recognition), fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Faith offers guidance for identifying the area and the level of your child’s reading difficulty, and she also shares practical teaching tools, strategies, and techniques for remediating your child’s reading struggles.

*NOTE: This is a 2-part workshop. Session 1 will address decoding and fluency problems. Session 2 will cover addressing and remediating reading comprehension difficulties.

Do you have a child who just isn’t getting phonics—or is struggling with beginning reading instruction? Or perhaps you have a child who has sloppy speech or doesn’t seem to hear things correctly? Poor phonemic awareness could be partly to blame. This session provides parent-teachers with an understanding of phonemic awareness skills and how these skills (or lack thereof) impact a child’s ability to become a proficient reader. Participants receive a phonemic awareness assessment that they can use at home, take part in interactive activities in order to “play” with phonemic awareness, and receive a list of curriculum, materials, and games that address these important, foundational skills.

In this session, Faith addresses the importance of spelling and presents the developmental stages of spelling. She also shares various strategies, techniques, and fun, hands-on, multi-sensory methods for spelling practice, as well as specialized spelling programs and strategies to help you transform “I am a terrible speller” into “I am a good speller!”

In this session, Faith discusses the ultimate goal of reading instruction: comprehension. She also explores various types of thinking and processing skills required for proficient comprehension. Faith shares tips, techniques, and strategies for developing the vocabulary of the very young, as well as good habits of mind in order to lay a solid foundation for comprehension with our wee ones (up to age 5).

This workshop offers practical direction and encouragement for families who are considering home education or for those who have already plunged into the sometimes scary waters of special education at home and are seeking assistance to navigate this realm.   Faith shares resources for homeschooling special needs, diagnostic checklists for struggling learners, addresses common concerns homeschooling parents face (and how to navigate around them), and shares strategies for charting a course for success with your children who learn differently.