How To Do CONNECT THE THOUGHTS Courses Course

For ANY STUDENT considering doing Connect The Thoughts courses. Connect The Thoughts is an entirely unique approach to home study. This informative, fun and FREE course will teach you how to use our courses and techniques.

This FREE introductory course for both LOWER SCHOOL STUDENTS (AGES 9-10) AND UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS (AGES 11-ADULT) demonstrates to the student the methods used in the Connect The Thoughts Curriculum. This fun, quick and easy to do course eases the student into new and effective learning techniques and strategies, unlike any they have experienced before. Often completed in a few hours, this course is a must for any student seriously home schooling, who wants a great education, using the Connect The Thoughts curriculum!

Information - Right or Wrong?

What is the truth? What is an opinion? What is a lie? There is no student of any age or experience who can afford to not understand these concepts!

A brief and simple course for any student age eight and up. The methods generally used to educate children today involve a great deal of enforcement of information. Texts studied and lessons delivered are to be taken literally, and the information supplied is never to be questioned. A student taught this way never is allowed to either evaluate or reject information, a valuable set of survival skills LOST!

This very simple course assists the student to spot truths, falsehoods, and opinions, and to differentiate between them. It is an invaluable, required precursor to their history and science studies, allowing them to really evaluate and reject "information". For many students, they will be asked to think for themselves and determine the value of information to them, for the first time in their lives!

This course requires no additional materials, except access to a few books, newspapers and the internet and TV.

How To Do Research

An essentials of study course for students ages 11-adult. How can one successfully research any subject, using all the tools available to the modern student? Find out today!

Connect The Thoughts is a comprehensive curriculum in history, science, creative writing, and the arts. We believe that for a student to study any subject, there are certain basics he or she must have a real understanding of. This course is one of those basics for UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS, AGES 11-ADULT. . A student will spend thousands of hours during their life researching. This can feel like a punishment if one does not know HOW to study. This very simple course goes a long way toward remedying that problem!

A simple starter course to be generally done after Information - Right or Wrong? , covering the essential skills a student will need to do effective research, a significant part of any curriculum. The student covers how to use books, libraries, newspapers, magazines, and the internet, in order to locate the information he needs. Our starter courses will help you or your student move quickly and successfully into a truly challenging page in education. The Upper School course also extensively locates and thoroughly covers the six most troubling problems a student is liable to encounter while doing research...and how to conquer them!

Spelling Course

The simplest and most effective spelling program you'll ever use, one based entirely around the student's unique writings and interests! A FREE gift from Connect The Thoughts!

Computer Literacy Course

For the student who has not used a computer much, if at all. Learn how to create documents and edit them, how to do research on the internet, and other key skills no student can do without!

A starter course for the person who has never turned on a computer, or who has turned one on, and then run terrified from the room ten minutes later! Starting with the most basic of info -- what is a computer -- the course teaches the student how to handle a computer, how to create documents, store information, research on the internet, and many other essential skills. Today, no student can really afford to be without these skills! In fact, it's doubtful many young students need this course. But if you do, here's an inexpensive way to join the modern world at the keyboard!

You will need a computer, preferably what's called a "PC", or "Personal Computer" in as opposed to a "Mac" (Apple, Macintosh). The computer needs to run on Windows (a program created by Bill Gates and Microsoft, his company), with another program called "Word" (which makes documents). You will need access to the Internet, but if you're reading this, you have that, and probably the rest of it as well. And I doubt you need this course... Well, here it is, anyway!

Manners Course

A Connect The Thoughts™ , A Course On How To Get Along With Others!

What are manners, today? We're not talking about "etiquette", the ability to select the correct fork or keep your elbows off the table while eating. Manners, as defined in this unique home school course, have to do with how we treat each other, how we communicate, how we accept responsibility and authority. Here is a course for students ages 9-adult, that does nothing less than define and encourage the sort of behavior which makes others trust us, and even care about our well-being. Covering everything from personal hygine to the names we call each other to the idea that one should keep agreements made, and even helping the student determine in what ways he's contributed to by his parents and others, and how he contributes in return...this is a life-changing course! 45-60 hours of ideas and exercises, all structured to help the student decide what sort of behavior will best contribute to his own survival, and the survival of others.

One concern home school parents have is that their children won't learn to "get along" with others (sometimes called "socialization").  In answer, Connect The Thoughts is offering our new Manners Course . Tested with great success, this course helps students discover the secrets to getting along well with others.

Through fun, creative, thorough exercises and essays, the student investigates his relationship with parents or guardians, brothers and sisters, teachers, friends, and others.  The student determines what others provide, and what he gives them in exchange.  He considers how others want to be treated, and how he should be treated by others. The student even looks at why he should care if others get along with him.  This course helps the student find answers to important life questions!

How To Start Using CONNECT THE THOUGHTS

Learn about an utterly unique and effective method to home school by doing a course using and demonstrating the techniques used!

A FREE gift from Connect The Thoughts™ .

Your Ambitions and Plans

A completely unique course, focused on YOUR interests and plans. How do you get "there" from "here"? How do you make a plan? What are the parts of a successful plan? One of the most important survival skills you will ever develop, the ability to make and execute plans successfully which will lead to to your dreams!