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The Homeschool Diner's Homeschooler's Guide to the Galaxy Guide to Homeschooling Approaches and Curriculum (and Everything) By Julie Shepherd Knapp, copyright 2006 A listing and brief description of various homeschooling approaches, popular methods, and philosophies and a review of the different types of instructional materials that are available in the US. Under Popular Methods and Philosophies, below, you'll find a listing of the most popular ways parents go about homeschooling. Each approach is given a brief description, and you will find links to additional books and websites so you will be able to research the methods you think you and your child might enjoy. Under each approach you will find curriculum options, brief reviews of some popular commercial products, free online resources, and a listing of important websites and books. Homeschool approaches are also grouped and presented according to the main types of learning materials they use. Some approaches and curriculum fit in more than one section, if so, they are listed in each. Under Types of Instructional Materials, below, you will find descriptions of the main types of materials available to you, along with discussions of the kinds of students that may find them useful. Several popular resources are reviewed for each media. Guide to Homeschooling Approaches: Popular Methods and Philosophies: Unit Studies Charlotte Mason Classical Education Delayed Instruction Eclectic Homeschooling Montessori Homeschooling Waldorf Homeschooling Enki Homeschooling The Moore Formula Thomas Jefferson Education Holistic and Alternative Homeschooling Unschooling / Self-Directed Learning Independent Research / Self-Directed Learning School-at-Home / Public e-School Distance Learning as an Umbrella/Cover School Distance Learning for Gifted Enrichment Cyber Schools / Online Academies Types of Instructional Materials: Learning thru Literature Workbooks and Worktexts Textbooks Hands-On Learning Educational Games Audio and Visual Materials Computer-Based Learning Need help deciding which approach or curriculum to use? Try the Click-O-Matic Guide to Homeschooling! Homeschooling families certainly aren't all alike! Are you homeschooling with a "Special Situation"? |
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| If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. -- Ignacio Estrada Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. --John Gardner What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all. -- John Holt No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. -- John Holt |