kayb85

Hello, my name is Alysia and I am homeschooling my son Zachary (3
years). I knew before he was born that I wanted to HS and with that
in mind I began a pursuit of a Master's in Education at The
University of Toledo. After a long road I anticipate a Spring
Graduation! The last requirement of my degree is a Master's Project.
After many advisors telling me "no", I have finaly found one open to
my project being based on homeschooling.
I am researching certified teachers that have choosen to HS their own
children. As a former teaching professional, I found it to be very
close to my heart. Many people at the University are concerned that I
will not find enough participants for my project. I have faith that
they are out they are willing to help.

If you are, or know a teacher that homeschooled please consider
participating. I have a brief survey that can be easily emailed.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!

Alysia Jablonski
Toledo, OH
homeschooling_zachary@...

Tia Leschke

>Hello, my name is Alysia and I am homeschooling my son Zachary (3
>years). I knew before he was born that I wanted to HS and with that
>in mind I began a pursuit of a Master's in Education at The
>University of Toledo.

I'm scratching my head wondering how in the heck a Master's in Education is
going to help anyone homeschool, even if they're doing school at home. I do
know some teachers whose kids were homeschooled, but they have told me that
their teacher training got in the way. It was something they had to lose.
Tia

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In a message dated 12/30/03 12:36:08 PM, leschke@... writes:

<< I'm scratching my head wondering how in the heck a Master's in Education
is
going to help anyone homeschool, even if they're doing school at home. >>

And the time spent in class away from the child...

Sad.

melissa4123

--- In [email protected], Tia Leschke
<leschke@s...> wrote:

I have been away from the list for quite a while. We moved from CA
to NV and were waiting for a home to be built so I was without a
computer at a hotel. My point is that maybe I don't have much room
to comment here but I just had to say something (I've never been
very good at keeping my opinion to myself).

As I was reading the first post about getting a Master's in
Education, I thought this exact same thing that Tia and Sandra
did! <<I'm scratching my head wondering how in the heck a Master's
in Education is going to help anyone homeschool, even if they're
doing school at home.>> <<And the time spent in class away from the
child...Sad.>>

I'm actually tring to figure out when you had time to get a Master's
degree in anything with a 3 year old around. I hardly have time to
vacuum! I certainly hope it dosen't take a Master's in Education
becuase I never even went to college and am planning on unschooling
my 2 year old. Which brings me to my next question but I think I'll
start a new post about that since it has nothing to do with this one.

Melissa (glad to be back and in our new home....anyone in Las
Vegas?)

Dawn Adams

Tia writes:
>I'm scratching my head wondering how in the heck a Master's in Education is
>going to help anyone homeschool, even if they're doing school at home. I do
>know some teachers whose kids were homeschooled, but they have told me that
>their teacher training got in the way. It was something they had to lose.

LOL. I've been thinking the same thing ever since I read that post, I hope she expands on that. All I've ever heard about HSing teachers is that their education and experience teaching school was so much baggage to get rid of, even those who are much structured than unschoolers.
Dawn (in NS)


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In a message dated 12/30/03 2:13:12 PM, Wishbone@... writes:

<< All I've ever heard about HSing teachers is that their education and
experience teaching school was so much baggage to get rid of, even those who are
much structured than unschoolers. >>

I lucked out, because I was trained in alternative ed and open classroom.
Tadaa! <g>

Sandra

kayb85

> LOL. I've been thinking the same thing ever since I read that
post, I hope she expands on that. All I've ever heard about HSing
teachers is that their education and experience teaching school was
so much baggage to get rid of, even those who are much structured
than unschoolers.
> Dawn (in NS)

She's not on the list. I saw that post on another homeschool list
I'm on and passed it along here in case anyone was interested in
giving her an unschooling perspective.

Sheila

Wife2Vegman

--- Dawn Adams <Wishbone@...> wrote:
> Tia writes:
> >I'm scratching my head wondering how in the heck
> a Master's in Education is
> >going to help anyone homeschool, even if they're
> doing school at home.


That post has appeared on many homeschooling and
unschooling lists today.

Not sure if it is real or not.



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WifetoVegman

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At 08:34 PM 12/30/2003 +0000, melissa4123 wrote:
>I'm actually tring to figure out when you had time to get a Master's
>degree in anything with a 3 year old around. I hardly have time to
>vacuum!

I got my PhD with 3 kids. For a long time I joked that I had more children
than chapters, but that changed. I actually hand-wrote much of my
dissertation because I worked in the playroom with my kids. I also worked
at night and in the wee-wee hours.

I haven't found my education background particularly detrimental to
unschooling, but I was not an ed. major. I was an English major; I taught
at Penn State for 6 years before we moved away. Part of my dissertation
deals with the early stages of what became liberal, public education and
the beginnings of women's education. This has actually helped me to see
education as just a bunch of theories laid out by guys like Jean-Jacques
Rousseau who really didn't have a whole lot to recommend them.

While I don't use my education in homeschooling, I think it did give me a
certain amount of confidence in myself. I think I'm far more capable than
anyone else of deciding what's best for my children--hubris that may or may
not have been there otherwise. I taught lots of education majors, and they
were, as a group, some of the worst students I had. Unable to write
coherent thoughts or punctuate and dead set against anything that resembled
critical inquiry. That's what really made me begin to look into homeschooling.

--danielle