Living Without School: What programme?

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

What programme?

What programme do you use for ..(insert your topic or subject or curriculum area here)?

We don't.

And do you know why?

It seems so easy to pick a book or a curriculum that allegedly solve the "troubles" of how to teach x.

But it's not.

There is no easy way, no perfect book.

Nothing can replace the attention of a parent or adult, responding to a child and his interests, sharing the world and their life and interests, using books and movies and activities and experiences and most of all discussion to teach.

No curriculum can replace these kind of learning opportunities.

So use the curriculum if we wish, but use it as an adjunct to real life and real learning, to everything else we do, directed or undirected and natural.

In my experience, what programme works is the programme of family and life and resources around us.

With lots and lots of time.

And lots and lots of talking.

2 comments:

Hopewell said...: Very well said. Years ago when we first homeschooled I obsessed with the Well Trained Mind discussion boards. Finally decided my "hunch" was right all along and stuck with my hunch after that!; 12:05 am
Leonie said...: Yes! That mother or teacher intuition!; 11:34 am

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