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Career Planning by Shirley M.R. Minster
When a student begins the high school years, adults begin talking about careers. “What are you going to do after high school? What colleges are you thinking about?” It is common for teens to dislike any talk about ‘after high school’. Some even express fear by retorting sassily that they want to do nothing.
Home Education: Delicious and Nutritious by Melissa Wiley
Homeschoolers talk a lot about the reactions and comments they get (so often negative) from people who don't know much about homeschooling. Nearly everyone has encountered a critic in the extended family, a naysayer in the neighborhood, a cross-examiner in the grocery store. Then there are the articles and editorials, a handful every week, in which some "expert" wags a warning finger about the disadvantages of home education.
Organizing Our Thinking by Dr. Renée Fuller
“What was he talking about?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” was my answer.
“But you were paying such careful attention,” said my friend Ellen. “ You looked like you knew what was going on.”
“I didn’t. I paid such careful attention ‘cause I was trying to figure out what he was talking about.”
Ellen grinned, then muttered: “Do you think he knew what he was talking about? I wonder why they invited him to give this lecture?”
Parts Is Parts - Intelligence Revisited by David H. Albert
Most homeschoolers I know are partial to Howard Gardner’s “theory of multiple intelligences.” It is, after all, a celebration of the commonsensical. Don’t get my wrong: I think it is wonderful that someone even remotely connected with the arcane world of what passes for education these days recognizes something that is self-evident to any thinking, observant human being.
Private Schools or Homeschools?
From Attorney Deborah Stevenson, Executive Director, NHELD
Did you know? that it is dangerous for homeschoolers to be considered “private schools”?
Careers: A Project for Your Homeschooled Teen
by Barbara Frank
Here’s an interesting project to try with your teenager. Look up the career field he or she is most interested in right now (yes, this is likely to change, but let’s go with the current choice). Find out how much on average that field is likely to pay your teen, and how likely it is that your teen will be able to find work in that field. Rather than use a site where the specific career is being promoted, try using the government figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics*.
Teens & Parents: What Teens Like & Dislike
by Nigel Lane (Teen Coach)
7 things teens don’t like in their parents. 5 things teens DO like in their parents...
Planning & Playing With Stories by Jen McVeity
If you got a dollar for every time you told your kids to plan their writing, you'd be living on a tropical island now, right? The only trouble is, it's hard to show children HOW to plan.
We've all seen examples of poor planning:
How do you know your (homeschooled) children are learning?
by Jan Hunt, Ph.D.
The assumption that homeschooling parents somehow lack awareness of their children's progress, and therefore require formal evaluation of that progress, is related to the fact that homeschoolers function beyond the arena of the schools, and our philosophies and methods are not always well-understood.
Let's Write! Working With The Narrative Voice
Dave Marks, National Writing Institute
When very young children tell stories to their parents, they have no idea they are creating a voice with which to tell the story. This means they exert no control over the aspects of their narrative voices. This is fine, but there is a responsibility to writing that verbal story telling doesn’t have. The writer of a story leaves a permanent record and has a continuing responsibility for what it says to subsequent readers. Children have to be told this and have to be taught to select and maintain a consistent set of characteristics for each story’s narrative voice.
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