‘Unschool’ Your Children. What do you do when your child, once an avid reader and curious learner, starts hating books and becomes disinterested in learning?
This inspiring family has chosen to ‘unschool’ their children! What exactly is it and how are they going about it? See their story and connect with their inspiring blog that documents their journey through this transition… Outoftheboxteaching.co.uk. Katerina Latalova BA, BA, MA, MSc , founder of Out of the Box Teaching Qualified Teacher with CRB Clearance To offer the best tailored schooling, Out of the Box Teaching liaises with a team of tutors, educational specialists and therapists to provide a holistic approach to the student’s needs.
We have worked with students from a wide range of different cultural backgrounds, with a variety of abilities and additional learning needs and have experience of and practical knowledge about the diverse needs of students learning English as an additional language. Katerina Latalova, the founder of Out of the Box Teaching, draws on extensive research about teaching methods and learning styles. Katerina combines experience of working in educational systems throughout mainland Europe with her work in Primary and Secondary schools in the UK. Parents to be legislated out of their children's lives - Home Education. With new Bills about to be introduced in both Wales and Scotland which will have the effect, if enacted, of legislating parents out of their children's lives, these are very worrying times for all families.
Such a profound shift of responsibility for the education and welfare of children from parents to the state is one that evokes sinister reminders of Nazi Germany. (In case anyone had forgotten, the law banning home education in Germany was passed by Hitler in the 1930s and is still being upheld, often brutally, in 2012). In Scotland, Schoolhouse is fortunately on the case and has responded robustly to the proposals put forward for a Children and Young People Bill. Great Authors teach SPELLING! « Homeschool Freebie of the Day. Wheeler’s Graded Studies in Great Authors: A Complete Speller We start the week with this fantastic spelling book, which uses great quotes from famous authors (Shakespeare, Longfellow, Coleridge, Burns, etc.) as both copywork and spelling practice… with particular attention paid to spelling rules and trickier spellings.
This is perfect for upper elementary through jr high spellers. Loads of great quotations too, if you just want to use this for copywork and penmanship. Highly recommended! To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your computer. Mushroom Ball « Chat With Andy. Late in the school day I took a group of 12 PSCS students to an indoor gym a block from the school that we use for physical fitness activities.
As expected, they started up a game of Mushroom Ball. Mushroom Ball? Never heard of that, you say? Positive Outcomes for Pupils of Britain’s Most Radical Schools. By Mary CannEpoch Times Staff Created: November 1, 2011 Last Updated: November 2, 2011 Children relaxed and absorbed in the Summerhill school cafe.
(Courtesy of Summerhill School) Freer Spreckley, entrepreneur, is a social enterprise consultant often working overseas. His clients include Oxfam and the British Council to the European Economic Community. He left Summerhill school in 1963 without being able to read or write. Lefty Parent. When most people think of a “school”, particularly a school for young people, the image of kids sitting behind desks with a teacher at the front leading the class (as the “sage on the stage” as they say) generally comes to mind.
Somewhere down the hall from this and other classrooms is an “office” including administrative staff and particularly the school principal who runs the school, including giving marching orders to and evaluating the teachers, and dealing with student disciplinary issues that are referred to them by the teachers. Education for Freedom. Education for Freedom This article was originally published in Freedom, in 2005 All over the Western world education is being reduced to forcing as many children as possible to take as many exams as possible, regardless of individual needs, talents or interests.
In this country we have organised competition between schools via league tables; in the world at large there is organised competition between countries via the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). (Britain cunningly avoided being listed in the 2003 PISA by claiming to have inadequate data.) The usual competitive reaction is a greater insistence on a national curriculum, uniformity and testing. Grow Your Own Potatoes. An ordinary life? Op-Ed: Sowing the Seeds of Social Change in the South Bronx. Stephen Ritz, who teaches in the South Bronx, has transformed the lives of his students with the "edible wall" of produce he built in his classroom.
Photo courtesy of Green Bronx Machine. “I am not a farmer. I’m a parent, a resident and a teacher,” I said at the opening of my presentation at the January TEDx Manhattan conference, “Changing the Way We Eat.” I didn’t need a pitchfork or overalls to explain how growing produce in my science classroom transformed the way my students treat their relationship to food, community and employment. I am a special education teacher at the Discovery School in the South Bronx. In this photo, a student at Discovery High School waters crops planted in a vertical farming apparatus. In 2009, we built an “edible wall” to grow fresh vegetables in our science classroom. Six months later, my students were routinely growing enough food in one classroom to feed 450 students a gourmet vegetarian meal every 90 days. Waldorf College Independent for 16 - 19 year olds. A. S. Neill's Summerhill School.
The 7 Abilities of EmPOWERment. Classrooms. Traditionally, classrooms have tables, chairs, a board at one end, they all share a similar layout.
But, how effective is this? When I was teaching in a school, quite often we moved the tables aside and just used chairs, or sometimes sat on the floor. This was great for student motivation, the group dynamic and kept the lessons varied and interesting. New school system in Sweden is eliminating classrooms entirely. Telefonplan School, in Stockholm Sweden has new school system that is eliminating all of its classrooms in favor of an environment that fosters children’s “curiosity and creativity.” (Pics) Vittra, which runs 30 schools in Sweden, wanted learning to take place everywhere in its schools — so it threw out the “old-school” thinking of straight desks in a line in a four-walled classroom (via GOOD). Vittra most-recently opened Telefonplan School, in Stockholm. Hidden woods. World Without Walls - Green School Bali. One Life Alliance - One Life Alliance. QuantumLevitation.
Teaching. Inspirational schools. Home Education. Rehan School English Introduction. Anthony Seldon: Five things I have learned. 23 April 2011Last updated at 04:13 Anthony Seldon says he has learnt most from his own experience In our occasional series, Anthony Seldon reveals the five most important things he has learned in his life. As the head of Wellington College, he threw out GCSEs and established his own curriculum - which includes lessons in happiness. Biography Name: Anthony Seldon Occupation: Master of Wellington College since 2006 and political historian. Education: Tonbridge School; Worcester College, Oxford (politics, philosophy and economics); London School of Economics (PhD) and King's College, London (PGCE). Lives: At the Master's Lodge at Wellington College and in Brighton "whenever I can get away". Born: 1953, The London Hospital. Family life: Married to Joanna, whom he met at Oxford.
TEDxAldeburgh - Akala - Hip-Hop & Shakespeare? Free The Children. Holistic education @ the encyclopedia of informal education. A brief introduction to holistic education. What is holistic education? What are the primary philosophies that distinguish it from traditional education? Who were the pioneers in holistic education? Ron Miller provides an introduction. Barter goods, services and knowledge. Alternative Education Resource Organization.
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