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Frequently Asked Questions © Beverley Paine, January 2009 "How does homeschooling look for other 15 year olds? What happens if my son doesn't want to go to TAFE, and wants to go to University? Can he still homeschool?" Homeschooling can be anything you want it to be, and for that reason it can look really different from one teen to another. A lot depends on the personality and ambition of the individual student. One young person may be working part time and studying at home, another may be focussing on performance and tailoring an individual curriculum towards getting into an arts academy, a third might still be 'playing'... Because your son is starting year 9 this year, my advice is to work on his basic skills this year, especially study skills. Don't worry about TER scores or anything like that until 2010, which is when he can pick a more specialised pathway. My experience is that most children going through school have weak basic skills in English and maths and poor study habits. A student needs these to be successful (and to enjoy) university. There are some great 'test your child' work books you can use as a guide to see how you son is managing with basic skills. In addition to improving basic skills I suggest you plan a general 'liberal arts' style education that covers local and Australian history, geography (where things are in the world, and how people use the world's resources), take him to performances, read and discuss books, movies, and games together, make sure he keeps a personal journey and writes in it every day, maybe a 'natural history' journal (where he observes what is happening in nature around him - basic biology, geology, etc - science skills). Go on lots of outings, It is worth researching what 'study skills' are: I found a great tutorial in the World Book encyclopedia years ago. They don't come naturally and are worth practicing, especially if you son is keen to go to university. Use 2009 to consolidate and build on basic skills and by the time 2010 comes around your son will be in an excellent position to select the course he wants to do. Getting into TAFE at that age will be easy if he is competent in reading, writing and arithmetic and has good general knowledge and displays excellent study habits. Keep a record of his homeschooling activities and write a report at the end of the year that summarises those activities and his progress in each subject throughout the year. |
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home.
In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications.
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