Ruth beechick biography

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Ruth was born August 29, 1925 and died November 27, 2013 at 88 years old.

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Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times

Ruth Beechick was born in Portland, Oregon, on August 29, 1925. She received an A.B. from Seattle Pacific University in 1947 and an M.A. Ed. (1963) and Ed.D. (1974) from Arizona State University. Initially Beechick moved to Alaska to earn money to finish her college degree. It was possible to teach in Alaska because a teacher shortage made teaching there without a teaching certificate possible. Beechink fell in love with Alaska and continued to live and teach there for about 18 years. She interrupted her stay in Alaska twice, once to return to Seattle to complete her undergraduate degree, and later when she moved to Arizona while working on her Masters. In 1974 she left Alaska again, this time to pursue a doctorate. At the same time, she left teaching to work in the publishing field, initially as an editor of books for children and educational materials. She formed her own company, Education Services, in Colorado in 1987. Beechick has written a series of books on schooling that includes Teaching Preschoolers, Tea

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If I were to create a Homeschooling for Parents 101 course, it would be made up of Ruth Beechick’s books, The Three R’s (intended for K-3) and You Can Teach Your Child Successfully: Grades 4-8.

Filled with practical, no-nonsense advice and a step-by-step relaxed plan for teaching the basics every child should know, these books are an absolute must for those just beginning to homeschool. They are also chock-full of valuable info that even veteran homeschoolers will find useful. There is something for everyone, whether you are planning on creating your own unit studies, using a hodgepodge of texts, or are locked into one curriculum provider for all subjects.

Mrs. Beechick, who was herself a public school teacher for many years, starts by encouraging her readers that they truly are capable of teaching their own children and doing it well. She takes the mystery out of what homeschool education is all about, and fills us ordinary moms with a Yes! I think I can do this now! confidence.

She coaches us in how to teach without ever having to purchase textbooks, an

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DIY Homeschooler

DIY homeschoolers will be hard pressed to find a more encouraging mentor than Dr. Ruth Beechick. Dr. Beechick was a skilled teacher and curriculum developer who considered home the best place to learn. She also believed that parents didn’t give themselves enough credit for being great teachers!

I meet teaching parents all around the country and find them to be intelligent, enthusiastic, creative people doing a marvelous job of teaching their children. But, sad to say, most of them do not know what a great job they are doing. Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else’s house and theirs is the only place that has problems. I’ll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.
Dr. Ruth Beechick, You Can Teach Your Child Successfully

Dr. Beechick left behind a series of books written specifically to homeschool parents that help them become familiar with the “language” of teaching, build self-confidence, lear