Homeschool SAT Consulting: Prepare without Selling Your Soul!

How to Prepare for the SAT without Selling Your Soul or Losing Your Mind
(for homeschoolers)

When the topic of the SAT comes up, homeschoolers usually sigh or curse under their breath.

Test prep companies have led us to believe that the secrets to a good score are arcane tricks and byzantine guessing strategies. They lie. If we approach the test properly, homeschoolers can expertly prepare for the SAT without selling out on our educational values.

Homeschoolers are actually in an exciting position to prepare for the test: a student who is accustomed to taking her education into her own hands can study much better than a schooled kid in a big-name class. The test actually rewards thoughtfulness, inventiveness, and curiosity traits homeschoolers have in spades! Done well, SAT prep can be a meaningful capstone to a homeschooling adventure.

I’m ridiculously excited to show groups of homeschoolers how to do exactly this to set up structures of expert practice that translate to impressive gains on the SAT.

In 2 two-hour meetings, I can teach you how to
- pick great test-prep books and software, and tie them together in a seamless system
- identify old knowledge that needs to be refreshed and new knowledge that needs to be learned
- stretch your mathematical problem-solving abilities
- understand what, psychologically, is needed for a high SAT score, and how to consciously build that ability
- organically grow your vocabulary by leaps & bounds
- fold in practice for SAT reading, math, and writing into all your studies

There’s nothing mysterious about a high SAT score -- you need to be grounded in “the beautiful basicsof math, reading, and writing, and to be able to confidently and quickly apply those basics. If parents are interested, I can also help parents set up a multi-year plan to authentically build high-level reading, writing, and math skills the sort the SAT rewards.

Most SAT prep classes cost around $1000 per student. For $400 (plus a travel fee for distances of over 30 minutes from Seattle), I’ll walk you and your homeschooling community through how to set up a more effective system of self or group study using excellent materials that cost no more than $150 new. (Expanding the group can make this cheap for example, involving 8 families would make the cost only $50/family.)

I’m passionate about helping homeschoolers study masterfully for the test and develop the skills that will benefit them in college. Visit my website (seattleSATcoaching.com) to get a fuller sense of my work.

Brandon Hendrickson runs seattleSATcoaching.com, and teaches high school philosophy, history, and political theory at The Attic Learning Community in Woodinville. He recently presented a similar seminar at the Pacific NW Homeschool College Fair. He has taught advanced reading skills to undergraduates in the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington, and is an MA student in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education program at that university. He’s still 4 weeks away from being a father, and so isn’t technically a homeschooler, but both he and his wife flip out for the work of Susan Wise Bauer, John Holt, and John Taylor Gatto.

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