Structure in Home Education - Living and Learning - Teknohippy

Schools use structure to deliver a National Curriculum, and to organise lots of people, both children and teachers. But as parents, with our own children the need for plans and lots of organisation becomes less clear. The lines begin to blur between education and everyday life. Every home educating family finds its own balance between these elements.

Some people find that they want structure to the day, or week, but not learning.

This can mean the daily routine of when to eat and sleep. Or a weekly structure with certain groups on certain days, or in a world of lots of groups and play dates it even mean scheduling time just being together at home and focusing on what ever the children happen to be interested in at moment.

This a very interesting book that has helped me focus on what they are learning, and making time available to be with girls and follow up their interests.

Some people want the learning to be child-led but need structure for themselves in recording learning and providing resources.

It is possible to record, compare progress with learning goals, tick off things you?ve done, put together files on different topics, find resources and have them available, but still have the child control their own learning. The resources come out as child asks questions or raises topics. The adult initiated structure in the learning is for home educator, not the children.

A little bit of structure.

Some people have a little bit of structure. Often this might be a small amount of literacy, maths every day or a couple of days a week.

Others follow a particular curriculum or programme very loosely, or just for the odd subject, eg. history.

Tidal homeschooling?is another interesting approach ?which takes elements of unschooling and a structured programme and flows between the two.

I don?t do structure for these as they come up in everything else we do. But I have a little bit of structure in that we do a history group and a topic group. So we have something to prepare for those.

Structured programme or curriculum.

In the England most state and many independent schools use the?National Curriculum. This is set down by Department of Education. There has recently been a consultation and a new National Curriculum is planned to come into effect from September 2014.

Most online resources and much of the children?s book publishing in this country is focused on National Curriculum. Some parents follow it, others keep a vague eye on it as a comparison.

Other curriculums used tend to be US in origin, as the pervasiveness of National Curriculum, the lack of state monitoring, and the great diversity of approaches in home education all make for a infeasibly small market.

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