Learning Better With Homeschooling 
Approaches
Born to Learn
A fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn.
Child's
Learning Assets
The natural order of things is that children do their learning
"job" by first collecting information so that when
it comes time to think in the abstract, they have lots of information
to work with. By Linda Dobson [HEM].
Five
Educational Philosophies
Essentialism, Progressivism, Perennialism Existentialism, and
Behaviorism. Taken together, these five schools of thought do
not exhaust the list of possible educational philosophies you
may adopt, but they certainly present strong frameworks from
which you can create your own educational philosophy.
Implicit
versus Explicit Learning
The ability to play the game versus knowing the rules of the
game. By Renée Fuller, Ph.D.
Learning
Styles and Hemispheric Dominance
Is your learning style at odds with that of your child's? Even
though I am a very patient person and consider myself to be attuned
to my children and their needs, I became extremely frustrated
by the fact that many of the resources I found natural to use
did not seem to appeal to my children. By Karen Gibson.
Learning
Styles: The Many Faces of Home Education
Perhaps homeschooling's most precious advantage is that it is
completely malleable; it can be shaped to whatever you need it
to be. Instead of forcing your child to fit into public education,
you have the chance to mold education around your child. Tamara
Orr, HEM S/O '04.
Concerns
Failing
To Succeed
Unfortunately, when people concentrate on trying to avoid failure
rather than trying to succeed, problems arise. By Billy Greer.
Learning 101
We have the chance to fill our children's heads with the "big picture" material, rather than the capitols of all the states, the multiplication tables, or the names of all past presidents. By Tamra Orr, HEM J/F 08.
How do Homeschooling Parents Know their Children are Learning?
By Jan Hunt. The answer to this question is, to put it most simply,
direct observation.
Making
Mistakes and Thinking for Yourself
I want my children, all children, to have the chance to understand
the valuable role of mistakes in life. Jana Mohr Lone, HEM Nov/Dec00.
Much
Too Early
This popular author and Professor of Child Development explains
the realistic educational needs of young children. By David Elkind.
Testing Homeschoolers
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
Are the children learning? Should you test? Must you test? If
you must, how do you locate testing services? From your Homeschooling
Guide.
The
Things I Really Want My Kids to Learn
If I were writing a curriculum today, I would include growing
a garden and knowing how to make a shelter anytime, anywhere,
from what's at hand. by Sue Smith-Heavenrich, HEM S/O 03.
Use
Summarizing to Monitor Understanding,
To clarify thinking, and strengthen learning. A summary is a
wrap-upa general picture of the informationmuch like
TV networks produce at the end of the year. From KidBibs,
by Joyce Melton Pagés.
The
Self-Directed Learner
Critical
and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy
Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of
intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three
overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective.
Within the cognitive domain, he identified six levels: knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Freedom
and Adult Education
Adult education usually carries with it some connotation of a
struggle with literacy. By Charles D. Hayes, HEM M/J 99.
Hole-In-The-Wall
An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection
in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. He calls this
method of computer literacy education "Noninvasive education."
The
Importance of Pleasure in Play
We learn best when we are having fun. Play, more than any other
activity, fuels healthy development of children - and the continued
healthy development of adults. More articles by Bruce
Duncan Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
Islands
of Expertise
Why do children become such specialists? "Islands of expertise"
is a term coined by Kevin Crowley, Ph.D., an educational researcher
at University of Pittsburgh who studies the ways that children
and parents learn together in museums. by Eric D. Gyllenhaal.
Learning
How To Think
Learning to be thinkers rather than mere reflectors of others'
thoughts should be a constant goal in the education of your children,
both for their academic achievement and for character's sake.
By Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore.
Philosophy
and Learning at Home
Wondering with children is one of my favorite pastimes. Wondering
about the world, marveling at it, examining it, freely and carefully
puzzling about it, is essential to childhood. By Jana Mohr Lone.
[HEM]
Project
Zero's Research Projects
Research at Harvard, lead by Howard Gardner, into how to help
your child develop thinking strategies for creative problem solving.
The
Secret Lives of Children
I have discovered, despite my all-seeing eyes, my all-hearing
ears and my never-stop-talking mouth, that my children are growing
and learning behind my back! By Teresa Blalock, HEM SO 06
Self-Directed
Learning
My teenagers had finally "made it". They had achieved
my primary goal in homeschooling: they had become independent,
self-directed learners. From the Older Kids column, by Cafi Cohen
Blooming Rose Graphic from Sunny
Bunniezz flower page.
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