Browsing: Teaching
How to actually teach at home — lesson planning, methods, frameworks, and the mindset shift from parent to educator. You don’t need a teaching qualification. You need the right approach.
Poetry, prose, etymology.. Shakespeare’s writings are something no literature curriculum is complete without. If you’re not an English teacher the…
There is nothing to compare with the experience of physically visiting galleries and museums with your homeschooled children, but sometimes…
Drama is a fun element to add to a homeschool curriculum and also a fantastic way to encourage homeschoolers to…
Every child can ‘succeed’ – even if success is redefined away from academics. Academic building blocks give a guideline to help children succeed at their own pace
The more comfortable we are with the medium we’re using to write words down..pen, pencil, keyboard.. the easier it is…
We didn’t start formal reading lessons until age seven. Here’s the approach we took, what worked, and the one textbook we’d recommend.
Home educated kids are no different to kids who go to traditional schools – there are subjects they like and…
The EBacc isn’t compulsory. But as a planning framework for home education, it’s more useful than it first sounds. Here’s how we use it.
Learning a foreign language is part of the recommended subject list for the EBacc and is a skill looked upon…
Reading aloud is one of the most effective things in a home-ed day — and one of the few lessons where you can forget you’re teaching. Here’s why it works.
