jennifercroce37

Hi my name is Jen and I am in the process of preparing to homeschool my daughter next year, she would be in 2nd grade. Through my research I have learned about the unschooling approach and feel that it would work well for us. I have already implemented some unschooling techniques and have seen a dramatic change in my daughter's behavior,confidence and desire to learn. I am pretty excited about learning along side her. My question is how do you contain and structure the learning to make it meaningful and long lasting. It seems we start on one subject or project and then it spins off to learning something else, then we start another topic etc, etc. It seems like the power of unsturctured learning is a little too much. I'd hate for us to waste time and not learn things in depth. Any advice or suggestion would be helpful.

Thanks,
Jen

Sandra Dodd

-=- Help with containing excitement about unschooling-=-

You're asking an oft-asked question, but in a whole new and better way!!

#1, don't wait until next year.
If she's in school, go and get her and bring her home. Or give her
the option to stay home tomorrow, if she wants to, and every day after.

#2, Don't contain excitement. WHY? If learning is hoppin' then let
it hop!!

-=-My question is how do you contain and structure the learning to
make it meaningful and long lasting.-=-

If you contain it and structure it, you will forfeit meaning and
longevity. There is practice learning and play learning, and then
there is real learning. School is about practice learning and
busywork. Unschooling is about real learning, and real life.

-=-It seems we start on one subject or project and then it spins off
to learning something else, then we start another topic etc, etc.-=-

If you think of it as the unit of everything in the whole wide world
(past, present, future, real or imagined), you can't move to another
topic. It's all related.

-=-I'd hate for us to waste time and not learn things in depth.-=-

Learning isn't a waste of time.
The more little things you know, the more hooks you have to hang the
next things that come by.

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Sandra

DJ250

What are the "techniques" you've implemented?

~Melissa, in MD

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From: jennifercroce37
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Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:36 AM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Help with containing excitement about unschooling


Hi my name is Jen and I am in the process of preparing to homeschool my daughter next year, she would be in 2nd grade. Through my research I have learned about the unschooling approach and feel that it would work well for us. I have already implemented some unschooling techniques and have seen a dramatic change in my daughter's behavior,confidence and desire to learn. I am pretty excited about learning along side her. My question is how do you contain and structure the learning to make it meaningful and long lasting. It seems we start on one subject or project and then it spins off to learning something else, then we start another topic etc, etc. It seems like the power of unsturctured learning is a little too much. I'd hate for us to waste time and not learn things in depth. Any advice or suggestion would be helpful.

Thanks,
Jen





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