Momentum: Thoughts on a Homeschooling State of Mind: Thoughts on a Homeschooling State of Mind

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The Prussian Military Model is a strange and inane framework for a child's day:
-Group people by abilities
-Learn distinct skills in that group
-All groups change activities after specific periods of time marked by a bell or buzzer-like sound
-Evaluate with grades frequently
-Give Awards

Homeschooling has no distinct model but presents numerous ideas for in-schooling students, teachers, admin and all lifelong learners. It is as much about in-schooling as homeschooling.

Practical activities, humor and provocative notions............are all offered by a forty-five year veteran teacher, (Urban/Suburban), Winner of the Star Ledger Silver Pen Award 2007, Grandmother, Science teacher, Hiker, Skier, Forager, Salamander migration facilitator, Stream-team worker, Bragger, Cranky World Citizen, Sprout House founder.
Ideas that are all over the map, including, but not limited to, Nature-based, Place-based, Primary Source, Respect for Play, Social Responsibility and authentic content-rich learning, are forthcoming for the reader's choosing, in rattling, entertaining, essay format.

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Finding satisfaction and entertainment in learning more and more local mini eco-systems and mini habitats, Joanne studies more plants before 10 a.m. than most people do all year. Author of: Sprouting the Curriculum: Perversely Logical thoughts on Improving American Education, she lives in Morris County, NJ and spends lots of time on the north shore of Long Island, NY. Alway the playful generalist, never the specialist. Forty-five year veteran teacher, Urban/Suburban, Winner of the Star Ledger Silver Pen Award 2007, Grandmother, Science teacher, Hiker, Skier, Forager, Bragger, Cranky World Citizen, Sprout House founder.

Abandon the Prussian Military Model as a system in which children spend their day. It harms many. It stiffens their neuron formation into odd formations. Do things that are contemplative, important, environmentally productive, helpful and highly engaging instead. Employ the teachers that can pull it off.

Not Just for Homeschoolers !!!

All adults are homeschoolers. All children are weekend homeschoolers. All teachers can think like homeschoolers.