I would sit down by myself with a good cup of coffee (or whatever you drink or eat as treat) and begin to think through the whole home schooling process. *Why* did you choose to home school your son? What method is your preference? Do you have an educational philosophy? What is most important to you in educating your son? What do you want to achieve with him?
I would take notes on your thoughts and ideas and think them through. How can you achieve the things that are the most important to you in regards to his personal development, your relationship with him, and his education?
Then I would have a little hot chocolate date with him and find out what exactly he is looking for in his education. It is his education after all.
What is important to him? Are there any things that he really wants to learn about? Any places that he is really interested in visiting?
Don't forget too that there is the whole deschooling process to go through too. It usually takes about a month for each year of traditional school to deprogram, settle down, and learn how to listen to his own ideas again. To not think in that mass education model.
It is certainly ok to take a break to re-group and to develop your plan of how you want to proceed. I don't know many 9 year old little boys who will want to sit and do school work as in paper work. Be thinking of ways to engage him, make a volcano with sand and baking soda and vinegar, show him the live-cam of Mt. St. Helens if it’s still up, and talk about Vesuvius.
It is important to kind of develop a road map for yourself, even if you have decided to unschool. You still need a plan of how you will facilitate for your son.
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