The Conversational Curriculum There’s a kind of lesson most of us had once, maybe twice a month if we were lucky. A teacher who asked a question and then actually waited for the answer. Who followed the conversation where it went instead of steering it back to the textbook. Who made you feel, for forty…
How can we make learning fun? 4 tips to keep the fun in home-ed learning
When we started home-educating, my evenings were taken up entirely by lesson planning. I had a planned-for-the-year timetable, wrote detailed notes for each lesson and I’d make worksheets (this was in Twinkl’s infancy and downloadable resources for UK home educators were scarce). I even wrote timings in the margin of the plans. And then my…
A grab-and-go lesson is just that.. a lesson you don’t need to think about because it’s ready to be picked up and learnt; lessons that can act as a filler activity or a complete lesson; be completed independently or with minimal teacher input. Putting together resources that anyone can supervise because the lessons don’t need…