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 Workshop PresentationsCindy Wiggers is an exuberant homemaker, author, publisher, and motivational speaker. She has a heart to help students develop a love for learning. Her workshop presentations are full of practical ideas from true-life experiences gained from home schooling her 3 children (in college or beyond) and her intense desire to inspire success in others. She and her husband are entrepreneurs who have established successful business ventures including Geography Matters.
Want Cindy to speak to your group? Contact
us for details about scheduling her for your conference, book
fair, support group meeting, or retreat.Deanna Gullett is a veteran home school mom with a passion to instill into children a love for learning. She and her husband, Denver have over 14 years of experience home schooling their 2 grown children. Deanna has a desire for children to enhance their self worth and confidence by learning to use their talents, equipping them to grow to be happy and successful adults. Workshops Include: 
Adventures in Geography
Thinking Outside the Box
Schooling an Entrepreneur
Have a Blast with the Past - Use Timelines! Establishing
Excellent School Notebooks Teaching
History & Geography with LiteratureAdventures in Geography Are you encountering geography in your everyday life experiences? You can, and we'll show you how! Knowing geography's 5 themes will help you make this topic come alive in your daily learning activities. Discover creative ways to incorporate games, simple mapping assignments, and using atlases and almanacs. Kid's love these kinds of hands-on projects and will want to learn more about the geography of our world. Thinking Outside the Box Do you have trouble keeping your students interested in learning? Perhaps it’s time you begin to think outside the box. Leonardo da Vinci approached knowledge from a unique perspective. Discover techniques used by da Vinci that, when implemented, will improve critical thinking and creativity, inspiring your students to want to gain knowledge. You can create an environment that develops a delight for learning and improves your children’s ability to excel in any area they choose to pursue. Schooling an Entrepreneur Home schooling provides opportunities unavailable to children stuck in a traditional classroom 7 hours a day. Did you know your children can turn natural talents, hobbies, or computer savvy into a tool to learn financial independence? Students who start their own businesses put to practical use, skills such as bookkeeping, organization, money management, communication, writing, and much more. Come find out how to guide and encourage the future entrepreneur in your home. Have A Blast With the Past – Use Timelines! Are you trying to keep up with time and place in this continuum of life? Want to help your students remember historical events and their significance to history? Timelines can help you… "boldly know where mankind has gone before"! Transport your, often random, historical studies into a chronological, simple format, and watch your student’s interest and recall soar. This workshop explains the importance of routinely using a timeline and how to get started! Establishing Excellent Student Notebooks Did you know George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson all kept notebooks? Explore this natural approach to education that encourages your students to be life-long learners! Open the door to self-motivation, academic excellence, creativity, and true learning for your children through notebooking. See how readily it adapts into any home education program and how to start your family on this exciting journey of discovery learning. Teaching History and Geography with Literature Reading historical novels aloud provides warm family time together. Learn how to make the most of your read aloud time by extracting history and geography lessons and projects from nearly any historical novel. Students gain a more comprehensive understanding of history by learning the geography of the area in focus. Packed with practical ideas such as mapping, art projects, and establishing a student notebook help lead students to become more self directed learners. Come join us for the nitty-gritty of how you, too can see additional benefits from your family reading. |
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