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Tenacity & Touch Typing

Review of The Typing Coach Online Typing Course by The Typing Coach

I was very excited to be given the opportunity to review The Typing Coach Online Typing Course, a curriculum from The Typing Coach, but I was not prepared for the tenacity and perseverance my son would develop while working through the course.

This course is designed by an old fashioned typing teacher in a way that allows you and your children to learn and perfect their typing skills at home and at your own pace.

How We Began Using The Materials

I Tenacity & Touch Typingbegan by reading through the introductory information online and printing a packet of the Audio Course manual and Learning Checks and Progress Chart.

Then I handed the packets over to my son and walked him through a brief orientation of the Online Course.

Finally, I stepped back and let my teenage son explore the course, pace himself, and work his way through The Typing Coach online coursework. (I have to admit I was a little worried that he might not be able to pace himself or have the perseverance to repeat lessons on his own when he made a mistake on a test, but he took the reigns in both hands and I couldn’t be happier with the result)

What You Get With The Typing Coach Online Typing Course

What You Need To Take The Course

The Typing Coach Online Typing Course Scope & Sequence

  1. General Introduction including:
    • overview of the course with a visual tour (video)
    • how to pace the lessons for younger children
    • overview of the practice and testing center
    • a pre-test to benchmark yourself against
  2. Posture lessons
  3. Learning the Home Row
  4. Learning the Top Row
  5. Learning the Bottom Row
  6. Proficiency with Shift Keys
  7. A lesson to evaluate the skills you have obtained so far
  8. Practice typing
  9. Learning the Number Row
  10. More practice to gear up for the final test
  11. Final Assessment
  12. A concluding lesson

Time Required to Teach Lessons

If your child is mature enough and able to manage his own learning, you will find that all you need is to get him started and then get out of his way. For me it did not matter how fast or how slowly my son progressed through the lessons, but that he learn each lesson thoroughly and that he take responsibility for learning on his own and independently. This was a perfect course for those objectives.

Overall time your child can expect to spend daily: 25-35 min each day

How Many Days A Week Are Required?

Your child can work through the lessons as often as he (or you) like. My son felt challenged by The Typing Coach and followed his instructions to the letter. As a result, he wanted to work on the lessons daily.

Prerequisites For This Curriculum

Your child must be old enough to read and mature enough to be self-motivated and self-directed to use the lessons independently. You and your child must also be prepared for a bit of frustration as he goes through the master process, and a huge amount of self-confidence when he succeeds. Beyond those requirements, there really is nothing stopping any child from learning to type with The Typing Coach.

Teaching More Than One Child Is Easy

The great part about this curriculum is that when you purchase a yearly subscription, you can have all your children use the lessons.

The Typing Coach Suggested Pacing

The Typing Coach suggests pacing your child with one lesson each week. At this rate of progress, your child will likely complete the course in 10 weeks.

However, as the course depends on mastery in order to move forward through lessons, it may take more time than 10 weeks.

How We Ended Up Using The Lessons

My son really connected with The Typing Coach. He enjoyed listening to the lessons and fully applied himself to each new challenge.

So we adapted the pacing to match his interest. At first he progressed very quickly, but then slowed down when the lessons became challenging. When he reached a section that required more practice and review before moving ahead, it took a bit longer to get through the lesson. But since we are focused on mastery and not speed in our homeschool, the program works very well.

How We Liked It

My son really likes these typing lessons. He is currently a bit more than half-way through the program, but has paced himself to maximize his own learning and retention. While he gets frustrated when he makes an error or decides to redo a lesson, he thrives on the mastery approach which underlies The Typing Coach products.

A lot of the methodology used in this typing course and the requirement for mastery reminds me a whole lot of the typing class I took in middle school. It was in the days before computers and we learned on old typewriters. Just one mistake meant that you could not move forward with your lessons. It was hard. It was frustrating at times. But I really learned to touch type speedily and that is a skill which served me well throughout my life.

The tenacity I developed during those lessons gives me the drive to succeed when things are tough. And that tenacity is what I see my son developing throughout his Typing Coach lessons.

And for that I am completely grateful.

 Great Option For Learning Typing That Emphasizes Mastery & Teaches Tenacity

My son feels so connected to The Typing Coach that he takes each lesson exactly as instructed. When he makes a mistake in a test and the Typing Coach material redirects him to repeat the lesson, he grimaces but then buckles down and does it.

There is a single trigger in every child’s life that instills the spirit of tenacity and perseverance. For my son, The Typing Coach is that trigger.

This program really has helped my son to develop and hone a spirit of tenacity when it comes to learning typing. And I can already see that tenacity and devotion to mastery spreading itself to his other subjects and also to his daily life.

 

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