Home School Methods Tips: The Unit Study Method

November 24th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School Methods Tips: The Unit Study Method
Unit Study involves taking a particular topic, such as Ancient Rome, and studying it for a month or longer. During a study of Rome, you can incorporate different academics (by using Roman games, coins, numerals, literature, history, and even Latin) to gain insight into the Roman world. You can also cook and eat Roman food, go to a museum to see Roman artwork, read history about Julius Caesar or even Cicero, and read the poetry of Virgil.

*You can also do unit studies from both the unschooling approach (by letting the child pick the topic) or using the parental approach (you pick the topic and write the curriculum).

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Home School Methods Tips: Independent Study Programs

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Home School Methods Tips: Independent Study Programs
People who begin homeschooling often feel they need the warm hand of a certified teacher on their shoulder, guiding them along until they get the hang of it themselves. That is exactly what the public ISP (independent study programs) appears to do.

In most states, ISPs use the same curriculum that children at the local public school would use. If you choose such a program, you are assigned an ISP counselor (a certified teacher for the public school teacher who usually keeps track of between 100 and 300 families like yours). You are also given the curriculum to follow and must report to the counselor weekly, bimonthly, or monthly.

*Most families find, after two or three months, that they love the freedom of homeschooling and want to be on their own.

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Home School Methods Tips: The Charlotte Mason Method

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Home School Methods Tips: The Charlotte Mason Method
Charlotte Mason believed that children should love to learn. The basic philosphy of this method includes “regular school” plus the humanities (music, arts and crafts).

The Mason method says that parents should frequently read aloud to their children and then have their children paraphrase what they have heard/learned. This is referred to as the narration process.

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Home School Methods Tips: Spatial Intelligence

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Home School Methods Tips: Spatial Intelligence
Having this form of intelligence gives one the ability to think and see in pictures and images. This would be a form of intelligence of a painter or a sculptor who can see in her mind´s eye and bring forth in detail what others might miss. T

hose with this form of intelligence love to make charts and maps, so get your student involved by having her make simple maps of your house, your neighborhood, and your city. Let her work on geography as much as she wants.

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Home School Methods Tips: Charlotte Mason – Nuts-n-Bolts

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Home School Methods Tips: Charlotte Mason – Nuts-n-Bolts
vThe basic Charlotte Mason philospohy includes “regular school” plus the humanities. Originally, the humanities meant things people make – music, art, and crafts.
vA typical day using the Charlotte Mason method would include one hour of structured academic time. Charlotte believed that parents should schedule as little as one hour per day in the morning to do academics and then the parents and the child should go out into nature and sketch.
vChildren should have plenty of free time to pursue their own interests.
vParents should frequently read aloud to their children and then have the children paraphrase what they have learned. This is referred to as the narration process.

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Home School Methods Tips: Unschooling – Nuts-n-Bolts

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Home School Methods Tips: Unschooling – Nuts-n-Bolts
Boston educator John Holt first came up with the ideas behind unchooling in the 1960´s. His approach was basically “don’t do what the schools do – stifle natural learning impulses, force intellectual activity to be subject to a rigid timetable, and so on.” Today, many parents simply take this to mean “Don’t do anything academic unless your child initiates the interest.”

Most families that follow the unschooling approach do not allow television, video games, or other activities prevalent today in their homes or in their children’s lives. To create an unschooling environment in your home, have lots of stimulating books around and read them as a family. Whatever your kids show interest in is what you should teach them, albeit in an academic way! Take a cooking class together. Listen to all different kinds of music. Learn to play an instrument yourself. Play board games ( like Scrabble, Uno, chess and Set). Put things in front of your children that will stimulate their interest in the three R´s. Then you can teach them –without sitting in a classroom at a desk.

This method has no absolute hoops to jump through, but be sure to check the laws of your state before heading down this road. Many states require certain curricular items to be taught and ask for evidence of such items.

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Home School Methods Tips: The Unschooling Method

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Home School Methods Tips: The Unschooling Method
True unschooling is doing everything but what the schools do. Unschoolers follow the practice of letting the child determine the curriculum. Some, completely, others by subtly controlling the environement the child is in.

Many unschoolers believe that children are born naturally curious and their intellectual drive comes from within. Therefore, trying to lead them academically stifles their creativity and curiosity.

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Home School Methods Tips: To School or Not to School?

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Home School Methods Tips: To School or Not to School?
Many parents are faced with the problem that they really enjoy homeschooling but their children want to go back to public school. John Holt, when dealing with this, said, “If your child wanted to jump off a cliff would you let him?”

Your child is just that – a child. You are the parent and therefore have not only the responsibility but the ability to choose what is best for your child!

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Home School Methods Tips: Musical Intelligence

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Home School Methods Tips: Musical Intelligence
People with musical intelligence often hum or sing to themselves. They have a great aptitude for music in general, being able to remember melodies after only three or four hearings, and they possess excellent pitch and usually a good sense of rhythm in varying degrees.

This type often learns by hearing information set to music or by writing their own music to it. They often concentrate better with some type of music playing in the background. To teach one with musical intelligence, you might use tapes that contain the information set to music, or use music as a mood-enhancing tool.

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Home School Methods Tips: Strengths/Weaknesses of the Classical Approach

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Home School Methods Tips: Strengths/Weaknesses of the Classical Approach
Strengths of the Classical Approach:

• Is tailored to stages of mental development
• Teaches thinking skills & verbal/written expression
• Creates self-learners
• Has produced great minds throughout history

Weaknesses of the Classical Approach:

• Very little prepared curriculum available
• Requires a scholarly teacher and student
• May overemphasize ancient disciplines and classics

Reprinted from the 2000 Elijah Company catalog. For a free copy of this catalog, contact:
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