Category: Teaching/CLEP-Prep

Which Curriculum is Best

Which Curriculum is Best

| May 2, 2022

One of the questions I hear often is, Which curriculum is best to prepare for a CLEP exam? The short answer is that there is no one right or best curriculum. Preparing for a CLEP or DSST is never about finding the one curriculum that serves the test. In middle and high school, textbook authors […]

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Facilitating a CLEP Study Group

Facilitating a CLEP Study Group

| January 1, 2020

Creating an effective CLEP course for your students (and their friends!) is very rewarding. Don’t think you have to be an expert in the subject at hand. You can create an educational experience for your student that will be engaging and rewarding, and that leads them to earning college credit. When I suggested to my […]

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Failing a CLEP Exam

Failing a CLEP Exam

| September 6, 2019

My student failed his CLEP test … now what? Fails are never easy. Let’s just get that out of the way. And if you were the one facilitating the study, then you are feeling responsible. It may not be much of a consolation that your student probably learned a ton, may have enjoyed studying in […]

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What’s Your Student’s Motivation Trigger

What’s Your Student’s Motivation Trigger

| October 16, 2018

Understanding your student’s Learning Style and Motivation Trigger can help keep them engaged with less effort on your part. Once our boys grow taller than us, it’s natural for them to want to take the leading role. Yet, as a teen, they are likely not taking the reins to plan and implement their education, so […]

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Curriculum Ideas we’ve used

Curriculum Ideas we’ve used

| October 21, 2011

In the Spirit of Sharing:Two of my kids have taken many exams, applying over 80 CLEP and DSST credits to their degrees.  Below is the order they took them in and a list of the primary resource they used.  My son focused on the History exams and my daughter’s focus was on the Business and […]

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