Apoyo a las familias homeschoolers / Support for homeschooling families

Learn Nothing Day

As I'm posting this, Learn Nothing Day is 75 days away.

Guess how many years it has been?
Lots.

More info
and the 2014 Countdown

with this art and the last one
(and eventually, other art—exciting art)

Second Interview in Spanish, on making better choices

Homeschooling: Cómo ayudar a nuestros hijos a tomar decisiones




The interviewer is María José Cifuentes.
Translator: Yvonne Laborda
Interviewee: Sandra Dodd

April 22, 2014

Home-schooling numbers and opportunities grow

Home-schooling numbers and opportunities grow

Howard Ho, 18, works on his calculus while his mother Sandy Ho prepares dinner in their New Milford, Conn, home. Ho is home schooled and has been applying to colleges for the fall. He has already started taking classes at Western Connecticut State University.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Photo: H John Voorhees III

Islamic students, U.S., Maryland

Outgrowing Schools: Journeys In Islamic Homeschooling

It's homeschooling more than unschooling—co-op classes—but interesting!

March 4, 2014

Galway, March 25, Ireland Times

Unschooling in Galway – one family on its experience of teaching at home

Education People: Home schooling without a curriculum

Toowoomba, QLD, March 26, 2014

TOOWOOMBA parents Rachael and George Clark are advocates of "unschooling" and say it's not about no school, but letting the children run with their passions. (full article)

The couple's eldest daughter Jemima, who has Asperger's, struggled with school from an early age and for two years they tried every parenting strategy in the book.

Winnipeg Free Press, print edition

LOCAL
Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
'Unschooling' is in
More and more families are pulling their kids out of conventional schools — and it's not necessarily because of Bill 18
By: Nick Martin
Posted: 03/29/2014 1:00 AM | Comments:

Home-schooled students Daniel McIntyre-Ridd and Maggie Gehman rehearse for the production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. The cast includes 24 home-schooled students from 10 families. Photo Store

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/unschooling-is-in-253010921.html

Brief interview, "Mornings" show

I didn't hear it on the day, but in the recording I can hear that the interviewer was about to suggest that my children sounded gifted. Their biggest gift was time to develop in their own way, in an enriched environment, with lots of parental attention. 

One of the interviewer's comments was interesting, but not really fair or true: "Your point was that you were an educator, you were taught how to educate your kids at home…" I was taught about classrooms and groups of kids, about record keeping and assessment. Those things aren't useful for unschoolers.

It's true that the open classroom method is what unschooling is, only without the limitation of a classroom or a schedule, but it's NOT about teaching. It's about providing resources, answering questions, facilitating their learning. For some people, having been a teacher is detrimental to their ability to be good unschooling parents.

Some of the very best of unschooling parents have zero "teacher training" or classroom experience. It's not at all required, nor helpful. But it IS true that there are many unschoolers who were once teachers. More than anything else, their common knowledge is that learning all happens inside the learner.

Unschooling in India

From classroom to living room

Joeanna Rebello Fernandes,TNN | Jan 19, 2014, 05.33 AM IST

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/From-classroom-to-living-room/articleshow/29032760.cms