Over the Bar Instruction

Over the Bar Instruction INC is a small business owned and operated by Todd and Ruth Ann Frederick, both avid learners with a passion for teaching. As homeschooling parents of four very diverse learners, they had to adjust techniques to meet the individual needs of their very different children. Their first child was a very dramatic, multi-sensory learner with a great love of fiction while her younger sister was a curious student struggling through auditory processing issues. When their third child, a high intellect ADHD sufferer came along, the struggle to keep his insatiable mind engaged forced them to find new methods of capturing his attention and keeping him on task. Their fourth child, still in high school at this point, is a severe dyslexic but hard working child with a very calm demeanor. The Fredericks never had a one-size fits all mentality about educating their own children, and they suspect that method won’t work very effectively for anyone else’s either.

They’ve made a study of learning styles and developed ways to force a child to process information as many different ways as possible with a bias toward visual images and verbal illustrations through similes. These memory hooks allow students to move information from short to long term memory a bit more easily. For most students, they feel they’ve found an effective process, and they hope you find similar successes with your children.

No, we are in no way a school, but we do provide enrichment material to assist both home schooling parents and classroom teachers who want to purchase topics in video. Materials for classroom use are intended only for the teacher who purchased the download.

Good question. You’ll notice in some of our material that we do have a biblical worldview. It’s simply part of who we are, but we do realize that not everyone shares our worldview and have intentionally avoided aggressive proselytizing. In descriptions of curriculum bearing more evangelical themes, we’ll be sure to announce that we’ve included a more intentional approach to our world view. Let the buyer beware that some of our materials will contain references to Jehovah God as Creator and Sustainer and Jesus Christ as Redeemer.