Help please with brilliant answers
Sandra Dodd
Someone is filling out an application for college, and this is for the mom to fill out. If anyone has already done this, or wants to play with designing great responses (or phrases, or parts of responses), please pour them out here!
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The Common Application
2010-11 Home School Supplement
Philosophy
Please tell us why home schooling was chosen for this student, and explain your home schooling philosophy.
Grading Scale
Please explain the grading scale or other methods of evaluation.
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Thanks,
Sandra
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The Common Application
2010-11 Home School Supplement
Philosophy
Please tell us why home schooling was chosen for this student, and explain your home schooling philosophy.
Grading Scale
Please explain the grading scale or other methods of evaluation.
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Thanks,
Sandra
Jenny Cyphers
***Philosophy
Please tell us why home schooling was chosen for this student, and explain your
home schooling philosophy.***
Individualized learning tailored to the child's needs. The ability to think for
oneself being fostered outside of an environment that mass educates to the
middle. The ability to explore opportunities that one couldn't do if in a
classroom environment. Being able to intensely focus on areas of study without
needing to move on before finished.
***Grading Scale
Please explain the grading scale or other methods of evaluation.***
Intimate hands on person to person contact between parent and child, no middle
man like a teacher keeping the parent informed. Personal accomplishment and
garnering of skills until fully competent, visibly and tangibly attained through
the intimate contact between parent and child working together to achieve
educational goals. Evaluation by the student of their own processes and
achievements and moving forward or continuing further in areas of study based on
their individualized learning tailored to their needs.
That's a start I guess... It's likely what I would say. I might come up with
more.
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Please tell us why home schooling was chosen for this student, and explain your
home schooling philosophy.***
Individualized learning tailored to the child's needs. The ability to think for
oneself being fostered outside of an environment that mass educates to the
middle. The ability to explore opportunities that one couldn't do if in a
classroom environment. Being able to intensely focus on areas of study without
needing to move on before finished.
***Grading Scale
Please explain the grading scale or other methods of evaluation.***
Intimate hands on person to person contact between parent and child, no middle
man like a teacher keeping the parent informed. Personal accomplishment and
garnering of skills until fully competent, visibly and tangibly attained through
the intimate contact between parent and child working together to achieve
educational goals. Evaluation by the student of their own processes and
achievements and moving forward or continuing further in areas of study based on
their individualized learning tailored to their needs.
That's a start I guess... It's likely what I would say. I might come up with
more.
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Sandra Dodd
Jenny, that stuff was beautiful.
Some phrases could be lifted from here:
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolingcurriculum
Some phrases could be lifted from here:
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolingcurriculum
Paula Sjogerman
On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:52 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Humans are natural learners. That is the basis of our household’s learning philosophy. From there, everything flows easily. Our homeschooling journey has been filled with work, surprise, frustration, but most of all, joy. Zoe has been able to have a wider variety of experiences, use more different modes of learning, and meet a more diverse group of people than she would have if she had been in school. We are especially lucky to be living in the great city of Chicago where we have taken advantage of its tremendous resources. In fact, for us the term homeschool is a bit of a misnomer; better labels for her process might be life learner or community-schooled.
Watching Zoe learn and grow through the years has confirmed that this philosophy is not just theoretical. All of the work you see in this transcript was freely chosen by Zoe; we acted as facilitators, chauffeurs, and sounding boards. Were we her teachers? Sure, just as Bill Nye, college professors, politicians, the neighbors, and our dog Steve, were her teachers. She was free to explore her many interests as deeply as she needed.
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She got into every school she applied to.
Paula
> Someone is filling out an application for college, and this is for the mom to fill out. If anyone has already done this, or wants to play with designing great responses (or phrases, or parts of responses), please pour them out here!Here is part of what we actually wrote for Zoe's applications (and while I use the word "unschooling" in my actual life all the time, we chose not to use it in this context):
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> The Common Application
> 2010-11 Home School Supplement
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> Philosophy
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> Please tell us why home schooling was chosen for this student, and explain your home schooling philosophy.
Humans are natural learners. That is the basis of our household’s learning philosophy. From there, everything flows easily. Our homeschooling journey has been filled with work, surprise, frustration, but most of all, joy. Zoe has been able to have a wider variety of experiences, use more different modes of learning, and meet a more diverse group of people than she would have if she had been in school. We are especially lucky to be living in the great city of Chicago where we have taken advantage of its tremendous resources. In fact, for us the term homeschool is a bit of a misnomer; better labels for her process might be life learner or community-schooled.
Watching Zoe learn and grow through the years has confirmed that this philosophy is not just theoretical. All of the work you see in this transcript was freely chosen by Zoe; we acted as facilitators, chauffeurs, and sounding boards. Were we her teachers? Sure, just as Bill Nye, college professors, politicians, the neighbors, and our dog Steve, were her teachers. She was free to explore her many interests as deeply as she needed.
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She got into every school she applied to.
Paula
Sandra Dodd
OH, Paula! This is beautiful:
-=- Were we her teachers? Sure, just as Bill Nye, college professors, politicians, the neighbors, and our dog Steve, were her teachers. She was free to explore her many interests as deeply as she needed.-=-
That is one brilliant answer. Thank you very, very much.
-=- Were we her teachers? Sure, just as Bill Nye, college professors, politicians, the neighbors, and our dog Steve, were her teachers. She was free to explore her many interests as deeply as she needed.-=-
That is one brilliant answer. Thank you very, very much.
Heather
This is what I have so far as an introduction to my son's homeschool
portfolio for admission to college. It hasn't been submitted yet.
We are home educating Arlo in a manner that puts a heavy emphasis on
interest based learning, learning in a variety of environments, and
personal exploration. We believe that individuals can best reach their
full potential and development as contributing and creative members of
society by being allowed to self determine and interact with the real
world, rather than being isolated with their peers in an institutional
environment with little choice of subject matter or method of learning.
We act as partners with our children in their exploration of topics of
interest. We do not limit them to learning from textbooks and classroom
settings, though they learn in that way as well.
We believe that his unique education, his passion for performance and
composing, and his sense of personal responsibility will make him a
fully contributing member of the Berklee community. Arlo's primary
strength and passion is the electric bass. He has dedicated countless
hours to the instrument.
Heather (in NY)
portfolio for admission to college. It hasn't been submitted yet.
We are home educating Arlo in a manner that puts a heavy emphasis on
interest based learning, learning in a variety of environments, and
personal exploration. We believe that individuals can best reach their
full potential and development as contributing and creative members of
society by being allowed to self determine and interact with the real
world, rather than being isolated with their peers in an institutional
environment with little choice of subject matter or method of learning.
We act as partners with our children in their exploration of topics of
interest. We do not limit them to learning from textbooks and classroom
settings, though they learn in that way as well.
We believe that his unique education, his passion for performance and
composing, and his sense of personal responsibility will make him a
fully contributing member of the Berklee community. Arlo's primary
strength and passion is the electric bass. He has dedicated countless
hours to the instrument.
Heather (in NY)
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