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Curriculum for Grades 1 to 12
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From phonics to physics, these 22 CDs and a set of Saxon math books are all that you need to give your children a superior education. You can use this curriculum to supplement your children's current schooling or as a stand-alone education using the included self-study methods. The Robinson children teach themselves (as do the 6,000 children now using this system) so well that their 11th and 12th grade work is equivalent to high quality 1st and 2nd year university instruction in science, history, literature, and general education. They also teach themselves study habits that do not depend upon planned workbooks, teacher interaction, and other aids that will not be available later in life. They teach themselves to think. Many home schools are limited by the burden of teaching that is placed on parents. Dr. Robinson has spent less than 15 minutes per day teaching all six children ages 6 through 18. Yet, both of his oldest students scored over 1400 on the SAT (over 1500 on the new SAT) and received two years of advanced placement in college. The younger children are doing as well. Teach your children to teach themselves and to acquire superior knowledge as did many of America's most outstanding citizens in the days before socialism in education. Give children access to a good study environment and the best books in the English language and then get out of their way! All Curriculum books may be viewed on the computer screen and printed with included software. |
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Superb Educational Results
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This unique curriculum will save you hours of teaching time each day and will give your students an opportunity to develop superior knowledge and life-long study habits.
One caution do not use this curriculum unless you are willing for your children to be academically more learned than you.
An Outstanding Resource for Home Education
If you could only have one home school resource, this curriculum would be the one. Developed by an outstanding scientist and his six home schooled children with the help of their professional and personal co-workers, the curriculum offers self-taught preparation of children for the modern world. This includes education in math, physical science, history, literature, economics, and general studies.
Most importantly, this curriculum teaches children to think productively and provides them with study procedures that will facilitate learning when they become adults. The curriculum includes a program of self study that requires almost no teacher interaction. This unique curriculum will save you hours of teaching time each day and will give your students an opportunity to develop superior knowledge and superb life-long study habits.
In 1988, Laurelee Robinson, Dr. Robinson's wife, and also a scientist, had accumulated several filing cabinets filled with teacher-based home school materials from many different sources. She was actively schooling their children - Zachary age 12, Noah, age 10, Arynne age 8, Joshua age 6, and Bethany age 6. Matthew, age 16 months, was not yet in school.
Then, in a sudden illness lasting less than 24 hours, Laurelee Robinson died. With responsibility for his wife's work as well as his own, Dr. Robinson was not able to utilize most of the home school materials she had gathered. These materials required a teacher.
In the years that followed, he and the children developed a home school that requires almost no teacher time. Moreover, this was done using specific, exceptionally high quality books and study methods that he knew would prepare the children for outstanding university performance.
Using techniques that he and his most accomplished colleagues use in their own work, Dr. Robinson's primary goals were to teach the children to think effectively, to learn independently, and to be well prepared with the basic skills and knowledge that must be learned early in life.
The keys to this are study environment, study habits, course of study, and high quality books.
The self-teaching home school that they developed has been so effective that each of the children is far surpassing Dr. Robinson own accomplishments at equivalent ages - even though he was, himself, so well prepared that he was accepted by MIT, Harvard, Rice, and CalTech. After graduation from CalTech and then the University of California at San Diego, he was immediately given a faculty position at UCSD and was considered one of the best prepared young scientists of his generation.
Moreover, this teaching program requires almost no teacher interaction. It is not dependent upon the teachers individual education, and it routinely allows the student to acquire skills and knowledge that are beyond those of their parents.
Academic knowledge is in books. Each child must learn to extract and use that knowledge to the greatest extent that his or her abilities permit. This curriculum enables the student to learn these skills with very little teacher help, and it provides the student with 120,000 pages of knowledge from the greatest science, history, literature, economics, reference, and general education books in the English language. These are reinforced by frequent and appropriate examinations.
Home schooling not only provides a superior childhood and family environment, it also has potential to transform American society by building new generations of moore capable young adults. Home schooling is, however, often held back by the academic education of the parents or by their lack of time to become home school teachers.
The Robinson Curriculum solves both of these problems. Children using this curriculum are able to advance at their own rate through learning of skills and facts whether their parents have this knowledge - and to do so on their own without an active teacher. The Robinson Home School Curriculum Version 2.0 is an extraordinary system of home-education that exceeds, in quality and effectiveness, any other home-school curriculum - and at a very low price.
The Robinson Home School Curriculum Version 2.0 includes:
Everything required for 12 years of home-education is on these 22 CD-ROMs with the exception of nine Saxon math books - starting with Saxon 54 and extending through Saxon Calculus. A coupon allowing purchase of these books at a 20% discount from the ordinary retail price comes with each set of 22 CDs. Each student usually finishes these books by age 14 to 16, so about one book per year is needed, depending on the student's individual rate of progress.
The curriculum is not divided by "grade" levels. Each student simply moves up a seamless road of knowledge at whatever rate of progress his abilities and study habits permit. We omit grade levels because they have become a means by which student achievement is normed to public school academic levels. These schools have, however, fallen very far behind the academic levels that were common even in the public schools of earlier generations. Children should not be deprived of the chance for a superb education by subjecting them to the failed standards of public schools.
During the first year of school, each student learns to read by phonics and practices reading with a great many books until reading becomes both easy and enjoyable. The CDs contain phonics flash cards, a large number of books that are both fun to read and appropriate to this first year of education, sets of vocabulary flash card exams for each book, and reading comprehension exams for some of the books. The student also learns all of the arithmetic tables by means of flash cards, so that he knows these tables perfectly. When this year has been completed, with some teacher help in learning phonics and understanding arithmetic, the student is ready for self-teaching.
Thereafter, each school day consists of math (or science when the appropriate math has been completed), followed by writing, followed by reading. The only teacher interaction required is in marking errors in the daily writing assignment. Students spend five to six hours in class each day. We advocate that this be done six days per week, ten to eleven months per year. This schedule is, of course, dependent upon family habits. The more study, the greater progress.
The "Course of Study," a book-length document on the CDs, explains every aspect of using this curriculum in extensive detail. It gives many hints and helpful procedures covering all aspects of the learning process. The keys to academic success are good study habits and excellent study materials. The Course of Study emphasizes the means by which students can acquire good study habits. The 22 CD-ROMs provide excellent study material for students of all ages - including materials extending all the way from those for beginning students to materials so academically difficult that even the most advanced and brilliant students will still be challenged.
History, English, literature, economics, geography, and all other subjects except for math, science, and writing are taught during the reading period each day. These are taught from actual books rather than text books. For example, the War Between the States is studied by reading autobiographies of the most famous individuals who fought on both sides of the war - supplemented by illustrations produced by artists who were actually present during the pictures events.
The books for these subjects are mixed together and presented to the student in a specific, carefully determined reading order, so that the vocabulary, sentence structure, and content of the books gradually becomes more difficult as the student's abilities increase. Each book is followed by a vocabulary exercise in a flash card format to ensure that the vocabulary from each book becomes an active part of the student's vocabulary. The CDs also provide extensive reading comprehension examinations for many of the books. These tests are in the format of the Scholastic Aptitude Tests that the student will be required to take for college entrance.
The Robinson Self-Teaching Curriculum is in use by thousands of families throughout the United States and in many other countries. Results have been uniformly outstanding. Students using this curriculum achieve high academic performance and a much greater enjoyment of learning than is otherwise the case. Parents are often astonished by the remarkable progress of their children with this program, even thought the cost in curriculum expense and teacher time is remarkably low. There is no comparable home school program available from any other source.
Please send Version 2.0 of the Robinson Curriculum. I enclose $195 for all 22 CDs.
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