Just some quick notes so I can remember what I learnt.
Recently a Homeschool summit was held over about 2 weeks,
the sessions were live online and then you could watch the replay for free for
each talk within 24 hours after it was given. It was such great timing for me
as I had just started to seriously look into home based education, trying to
work out if its something we could do.
There were only a few sessions I listened to all the way
through, most of them I just had playing, or I dipped in and out just to get
the general vibe. The presenters were mostly VERY enthusiastic homeschooling
parents, and their particular strength or experience was the reason they were
doing a particular session, and a few weren’t hs parents but experts in a particular relevant fields.
Their enthusiasm was interesting for me as I'm mainly approaching this from a practical/convenient view, I don't think I would consider it if I lived in Aus or if there was an obvious choice of school here. Many of these mums choose to do it because it is better for their kids for various reasons, and better for their overall family life.
There were some things which I thought would be good for all
parents, not just homeschooling ones (such as reading aloud and interest based
projects, building character) and other things which were really specific to
home based education (the freedom , how to run a co-op, how to apply for uni).
The first session was about different approaches to homeschooling,
I had just been reading about that so it was great to listen to someone talk
about it more in depth and with lots of enthusiasm and personal stories.
Similar to this:
One thing that was mentioned in this session (can’t remember
in which method) was some use other books rather than history text books to
teach history, maybe they mentioned biographies or something. Anyway that
reminded me that by the time I studies WW2 in year 11 or 12 I had already read
heaps of fiction kids chapter books about it. I think this made it much easier
and more interesting to study.
So that inspired to go to a bookshop and see what books were
there. So far I have just been looking for kids Khmer books, as we have been
given some English kids books suitable for our kids current ages. But during the summit I was looking for books
they can grow into and learn from such as maybe biographies of famous
scientists etc. I found one on solar
cooking and retelling of the Gingerbread man story.
The preschooler LOVES the gingerbread man book, we had to
read it many times the week we bought it. And then he wanted to make
gingerbread men, so we looked that up on youtube, and also tried to learn about
foxes from youtube. He also learnt some new words such as “gobble” and “snout”,
as well as watching a few cartoon versions of the story.
Designing your own Personalised Homeschool
(different approaches eg- school at home, Waldof, etc etc)
Raising Kids of Strong Character
Get out from under the
'Mother Load' and move from Manic to Marvellous (by a self care coach- why
stress is bad for you, how it impacts your kids, how to manage it)
Unschooling : Birth to 5
But what about University?
(explaining the many many different paths to uni in Aus, I didn’t pay much attention
to detail here as these sort of things change but it was good to know that at
the moment there seems to be lots of different ways to get into uni should your
homeschool child want to do that)
Nurturing a Love of Literature
(most sessions made references to reading out loud together but this one was
ALL about that)
Homeschooling Multiples:
Different ages, personalities, and learning styles (learning styles seems to
come up a lot)
100 interviews later: 10
unforgettable lessons I've learned from homeschooling parents,
Natural Learning : Simply
Living,
Respectful Parenting
Unschooling our Children,
Deschooling Ourselves
Herding Cats - How to Make Homeschool Groups
Work (this was nuts and bolt info about homeschool co ops in Aus, things like
if you join some homeschooling association you can hire halls and insurance is
covered and you might get a schools discount)
Preparing your homeschooled
or unschooled teen for university (different to the previous topic of how to
get into uni without having done traditional highschool
on instagram look out for
#aushomeschoolsummit
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