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Selecting Curricula – Criteria – Part Two
by Steven David Horwich • • 0 Comments
(The following is excerpted from Connect The Thoughts sixth Parent/Teacher/Tutor course, and continues where our last post left off.) How will you determine your student’s literacy? There are many tests and methods out there that might be used for that…
Selecting Curricula – Criteria – Part One
by Steven David Horwich • • 6 Comments
(The following is excerpted from Connect The Thoughts sixth course for Parents, Teachers and Tutors. This is part of a lesson plan dealing with preparation to homeschool, and deals specifically with how to select curricula.) Next comes the selection of…
On a work break
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Hi folks, Sorry. but my responsibilities for Connect The Thoughts will keep me from authoring more posts until after January 18th. There’s plenty going on, and I will get to it. I’m currently writing a series of courses for parents,…
What did Gandhi say about education?
by Steven David Horwich • • 8 Comments
Homeschool is not something we should have to ask for or vote for the right to do. It is the (to use Jefferson’s words) “inalienable right” of a family to choose to homeschool. The greatest minds of the past two…
Poor Cheated Little Johnny released!
by Steven David Horwich • • 1 Comment
Those of you who have been following my education blogs for the past few months are aware that I’ve been authoring a book on education. Today it was released on our site, at www.ConnectTheThoughts.com. It’s called POOR CHEATED LITTLE JOHNNY. The book spells out what education is, what it could be, how it’s gone wrong, and it provides many methods to provide a student a vastly superior education, particularly for homeschool. The book also takes apart the problems with schools private and public, and how they might be made to actually work.
About Tests, part II
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Some will argue that this approach to testing militates against a “liberal education”, one covering many subjects. Should Little Johnny only study what he wishes, what interests him? They will say that this will limit Little Johnny to a serious study of only those subjects that he is interested in. To which I say (between contemptuous snorts) “Exactly”.
About Tests, part I
by Steven David Horwich • • 13 Comments
Tests are a form of evaluation. I believe that the problem testing was trying to solve was to find some way to know how far the student had progressed. It is absolutely the case that we will need some method to assess whether or not our children are actually learning something, and ideally the something specific that they are supposedly studying. This is a problem built into the very nature of education. I think tests were meant to answer the question “are we succeeding?”