I just read this blog post, by a high school teacher struggling with a severely disabled child in her classroom who is very disruptive. His aide is apparently not on the ball, he gets into fights, screams through classes so other students cannot hear the teacher. This teacher is quite rightly questioning the whole rationale [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Feb
27
School is Not for Socializing — Out of the Mouths of Public Schoolers!
by heather
Tags: education, homeschool, public school, special needs, teachers, unschool
Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (13)
Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (13)
Feb
24
Video: My 2-year-old Can Crack Eggs– Montessori, Practical Life, and Cooking Skills
by heather
As I’ve mentioned before, we are following a Montessori-inspired philosophy with Pomme’s toddlerhood. Following her interests, she has ample opportunity to learn through self-motivated exploration. At this age, the emphasis is more on “Practical Life” skills than on ‘academics.’ She learns primarily through observation, imitation, and experimentation, as indeed human beings are designed to learn! [...]
Tags: baking, cooking, education, eggs, homeschool, Montessori, natural learning, practical life, preschool, toddler
Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Kid stuff | Comments (3)
Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Kid stuff | Comments (3)
Feb
24
The Hurried Infant and Child on CBC
by heather
Have you listened to CBC’s Ideas lately? The last two Monday nights, they’ve been playing a series criticizing the current trend towards earlier and earlier academic instruction. They’ve taken apart Baby Einstein, blasted schools that eliminate recess, disparage the practice of filling our preschoolers with factoids rather than allowing them the freedom to learn the [...]
Tags: academics, Baby Einstein, baby-led weaning, CBC, child development, diaper free, education, Homeschooling, hurried, natural learning, radio, recess, unschooling
Posted in Babies, Homeschooling, Kid stuff, Random Musings | Comments (2)
Posted in Babies, Homeschooling, Kid stuff, Random Musings | Comments (2)
Feb
19
Thoughts on Unschooling and “Holes”
by heather
Recently I responded on a homeschooling messageboard to a query about unschooling. A mom was contemplating homeschooling her kids, and was intrigued by the idea of unschooling, but concerned about the possibility of missing certain things if her kids didn’t happen to learn them. Things like division. My reply garnered an “excellent post” response… so [...]
Tags: benezet, charlotte mason, curriculum, division, eclectic, education, egypt, elementary, Greece, Homeschooling, math, public school, unschooling
Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (15)
Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (15)
Jan
07
How Homeschooling Works
by heather
The neat-o website How Stuff Works has a really nice article answering the question How Does Homeschooling Work? One of my favourites bits: When you get curious about something and come to a place like How Stuff Works to learn about it, you are participating in a form of homeschooling. This is sometimes called interest-motivated [...]
Tags: computer science, education, Homeschooling, how stuff works, interest, motivation
Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (0)
Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (0)
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