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Getting Started with Homeschooling
Practical Considerations for
School Aged Children
by Beverley Paine
The original Australian homeschooling manual
ISBN 1876651008, Paperback, 132 pages,
210mm x 290mm, illustrated, 1997
AUS$25.00
Packed with practical information and examples,
this book sets out in detail how to write a learning
program tailored for your child’s individual learning
needs. Plenty of actual of examples of ways to
organise and evaluate lessons, as well as excellent
ideas for recording learning at home.
We are in the process of revising and updating this popular book as an ebook but with twice the content! Until the ebook is available a limited number of printed copies of Getting Started with be available from mid-December. Orders can be placed now and your book will be shipped when it arrives in stock.
What readers think...
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"The best book of its kind I've seen!"
Valerie Marett, Australian Homeschooling Supplies
"I have found Getting Started with Home Schooling to be a wonderful resource, full of ideas and practical
considerations...and easy to read and relate to." Carolyn
"This is the best advice available for home educators I've seen. It is balanced and thorough and very practical. It is easy reading and very accurate. Although Beverley is a SA. home educator, her advice on dealing with the authorities in Ch2 'Getting Started' is general and accurate enough to be still valid and useful. I recommend this book to new and nearly new home educators and because the 'Recording and Evaluation' chapter has some good ideas I hadn't come across, I'd recommend it to anyone who is re-evaluating their 'program.'"
Colleen Strange, Home Education Association of Australia
"I've begun reading Getting Started with Home schooling - Practical Considerations by Beverley Paine. I'm only half way through it but it will definitely be one that I will be keeping handy on my shelf for easy reference. It is a great book which outlines in detail how to plan and organise a homeschooling program and related matters.
The various ideas that a homeschooling parent might have about how and what to teach to one's children eventually need to be consolidated into some sort of plan in order to implement those ideas. This book is a must read for anyone new to homeschooling as it provides a useful reference and outline of the many facets of homeschooling that need to be considered."
Umm Hamza
"Getting Started with Homeschooling is fantastic!"
Jo Jensen
"I found this book to be invaluable during my very early days of home schooling. I found the early days to be overwhelming and often felt I was floundering as I tried to work out how I would put home schooling into practice. This book is easy to read, and as well as giving the nuts and bolts of how to start home schooling, it also helped us develop our personal approach by giving us direction and areas to focus on such as family goals. It was helpful too in working out our curriculum for the next year when applying for government approval to home school."
Louise Wilton
"It is good to see an Australian homeschooling book of this size and quality being produced to meet Australian needs... Beverly has tried to think of everything that a new homeschooling parent could ever wonder about..."
Janine Banks
"This practical workbook, densely packed with Beverley's common sense ideas based on years of personal experience, is a comforting guide for parents just starting out on their homeschooling adventures."
Grace Chapman, editor of Stepping Stones for Home Educators
What's in this book? Contents...
Introduction
Part 1
Home Education in Practice
1.1 What it means for the parents
1.2 What it means for the children
Part 2
Getting Started
2.1 Registering your intent to legally homeschool
2.2 The interview
2.3 General Requirements
Part 3
Developing a Curriculum
3.1 Preparing a philosophy statement
3.2 Researching other educational philosophies
3.3 Determining immediate educational goals
3.4 Educational approach
Part 4
Preparing the Learning Space
4.1 Physical environment
4.2 Attitude to learning
4.3 Determining your children's educational needs
4.4 Learning styles
4.5 Value of play in the learning environment
4.6 Useful materials for the learning space
Part 5
Writing a Learning Program
5.1 Implementing your curriculum
5.2 Putting it all together
5.3 Collecting resources
5.4 Idenfiying resources
5.5 Evaluating educational materials
5.6 Timetables and flexibility
5.7 Correspondence courses
5.8 Examples of learning programs
Part 6
Planning Methods
6.1 Learning how to program by planning "in reverse"
6.2 Brainstorming
6.3 K-W-L method
6.4 Traditional subject outline
6.5 Basic questions
6.6 Divergent questions
6.7 Language experience approach
6.8 Capitalising on spontaneous learning
6.9 Mind Mapping
6.10 Learning centres
6.11 Text and student workbooks
6.12 Using excursions
6.13 Natural learning approach
6.14 Summary
Part 7
Recording and Evaluation
7.1 The importance of recording
7.2 Involving the children
7.3 Areas to consider in the evaluation process
7.4 Evaluation techniques
7.5 Grades, levels, tests
7.6 What to record
7.7 Types of recording
7.8 Some recording examples
7.9 Summary
Part 8
Connecting with Other Homeschoolers
8.1 Networking
8.2 Setting up a support group
8.3 Promoting homeschooling
Part 9
Curriculum Checklists
9.1 Skills and Processes
- Skills: Independent Inquiry skills, Group work skills
- Processes: Listening and Speaking, Writing, Spatial awareness and mapping, - Reading, Research and Information Processing
9.2 Learning Activities
- Listening and Speaking
- Media Activities
- Forms of Writing
- Art and Craft Activities
9.3 Other Checklists
- Conventions of language
- Health and Personal Development
- Science
- Intercultural Studies
- Mathematics - number, space and measurement
Recommended Reading
Homeschooling Contacts and Newsletters
Bibliography

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