What is home ed? How does homeschooling work? Will my kids be behind? How do I choose a curriculum? Will my kids have friends? and more are all questions that get asked when parents start looking into home education for their children. So where is the place to go to get all this information? Where is the best place to learn about the topic of homeschool?
My friend, there is not one place to go. There just isn't because home ed is as varied and individualized as the families that choose it. And even within families with multiple children, it varies. And that is one of the many, many benefits of home ed. So where to start? And that, I can help you with. There are many, many resources for learning about home ed and they come in different media, so go with works for you, for where you are right now. And later, once you know a bit, then push yourself into something less comfortable.
FILMS
Class Dismissed - http://classdismissedmovie.com/
Self Taught - https://www.selftaughtmovie.com/
PODCASTS
Julie Bogart of Brave Writer - http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/
Pam Laricchia - https://livingjoyfully.ca/deschooling/
YOUTUBE
Ken Robinson TED talk "Do schools kill creativity?" - https://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY
Ken Robinson TED talk "Bring on the learning revolution" - https://youtu.be/kFMZrEABdw4
Sal Khan TED talk "Let's teach for mastery" - https://youtu.be/-MTRxRO5SRA
Sal Khan TED talk "Let's use video to reinvent education" - https://youtu.be/nTFEUsudhfs
John Holt, advocate for homeschooling, founder of Growing Without Schooling - https://youtu.be/Ep5SkRUkoCg
BOOKS
Teach Your Own - John Holt
Learning All the Time - John Holt
Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor Gatto
Beyond Schooling - John Taylor Gatto
The Self-Propelled Advantage - Joanne Calderwood
Free to Learn - Pam Laricchia
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves - Alison McKee
The Well-Trained Mind - Susan Wise Bauer
GROUPS
I won't even begin to try to list groups because there are just so many. I would recommend if you're on facebook, doing a search for homeschool and/or home ed + your local community or state or council or local area and see what comes up. Then join them, yes all of them. And for as long as they allow, just be a fly on the wall, listening in on the chatter. See how the community supports each other. How often and where to they meet-up? Is it all learning-based or are there social meet-ups? Is there a heirarchy or is it more democratic?
These may or may not be your people, your tribe, your community. There will likely be a dating period when you go and try out each of the groups by attending a few of their meet-ups, chatting with the other members, watching your child(ren) interacting with their child(ren).
There is more, so much more. These are just some of the resources I tapped for my own deschooling. (Deschooling is that mind shift about how learning happens that adults who are going to successfully home educate their kids will go through. Generally though, deschooling is a term that is applied to children as they transition from public schooling to homeschooling.)
The resources I have included here won't actually point you in the direction of choosing a curriculum but they will make you much more knowledgable about the topic of home educating your children, how learning is innate, and how some families have incorporated it into their family's lifestyle.
I hope you find these resources helpful. Please let me know in the comments.
Ann
My friend, there is not one place to go. There just isn't because home ed is as varied and individualized as the families that choose it. And even within families with multiple children, it varies. And that is one of the many, many benefits of home ed. So where to start? And that, I can help you with. There are many, many resources for learning about home ed and they come in different media, so go with works for you, for where you are right now. And later, once you know a bit, then push yourself into something less comfortable.
FILMS
Class Dismissed - http://classdismissedmovie.com/
Self Taught - https://www.selftaughtmovie.com/
PODCASTS
Julie Bogart of Brave Writer - http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/
Pam Laricchia - https://livingjoyfully.ca/deschooling/
YOUTUBE
Ken Robinson TED talk "Do schools kill creativity?" - https://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY
Ken Robinson TED talk "Bring on the learning revolution" - https://youtu.be/kFMZrEABdw4
Sal Khan TED talk "Let's teach for mastery" - https://youtu.be/-MTRxRO5SRA
Sal Khan TED talk "Let's use video to reinvent education" - https://youtu.be/nTFEUsudhfs
John Holt, advocate for homeschooling, founder of Growing Without Schooling - https://youtu.be/Ep5SkRUkoCg
BOOKS
Teach Your Own - John Holt
Learning All the Time - John Holt
Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor Gatto
Beyond Schooling - John Taylor Gatto
The Self-Propelled Advantage - Joanne Calderwood
Free to Learn - Pam Laricchia
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves - Alison McKee
The Well-Trained Mind - Susan Wise Bauer
GROUPS
I won't even begin to try to list groups because there are just so many. I would recommend if you're on facebook, doing a search for homeschool and/or home ed + your local community or state or council or local area and see what comes up. Then join them, yes all of them. And for as long as they allow, just be a fly on the wall, listening in on the chatter. See how the community supports each other. How often and where to they meet-up? Is it all learning-based or are there social meet-ups? Is there a heirarchy or is it more democratic?
These may or may not be your people, your tribe, your community. There will likely be a dating period when you go and try out each of the groups by attending a few of their meet-ups, chatting with the other members, watching your child(ren) interacting with their child(ren).
There is more, so much more. These are just some of the resources I tapped for my own deschooling. (Deschooling is that mind shift about how learning happens that adults who are going to successfully home educate their kids will go through. Generally though, deschooling is a term that is applied to children as they transition from public schooling to homeschooling.)
The resources I have included here won't actually point you in the direction of choosing a curriculum but they will make you much more knowledgable about the topic of home educating your children, how learning is innate, and how some families have incorporated it into their family's lifestyle.
I hope you find these resources helpful. Please let me know in the comments.
Ann
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