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The Home Education Handbook: A comprehensive and practical guide to educating children at home
'Home-educators want to provide a high quality learning experience for their children and this handbook is an excellent resource for making this aspiration a reality' - Dr Adam Boddison, Chief Executive of National Association of Special Educational Needs
If you are thinking of home educating your child, your initial surprise may be at how easy it is to turn intention into reality. Once you have deregistered your child, you are largely left to get on with delivering education from home, as you see best.
This book is full of practical guidance for parents, based on the authors' long experience of working with children and young people; their parents, teachers and schools. It will help you plan what is taught, as well as when and how. The authors not only consider how to benefit from the opportunities home education provides, but also suggest creative ways to fill the potential gaps that might arise from not being part of the traditional school system.
The Home Education Handbook covers everything from the socialisation of home-educated children to advice on supporting the motivation and resilience of all involved. This is a book that every parent who is considering home education or flexi-schooling, or is simply keen to ensure that their child gets the best education possible, needs to read.
If you are thinking of home educating your child, your initial surprise may be at how easy it is to turn intention into reality. Once you have deregistered your child, you are largely left to get on with delivering education from home, as you see best.
This book is full of practical guidance for parents, based on the authors' long experience of working with children and young people; their parents, teachers and schools. It will help you plan what is taught, as well as when and how. The authors not only consider how to benefit from the opportunities home education provides, but also suggest creative ways to fill the potential gaps that might arise from not being part of the traditional school system.
The Home Education Handbook covers everything from the socialisation of home-educated children to advice on supporting the motivation and resilience of all involved. This is a book that every parent who is considering home education or flexi-schooling, or is simply keen to ensure that their child gets the best education possible, needs to read.
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368 pages, Paperback
Published June 11, 2019
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November 22, 2022
As a long term home educator (17 years, 2 kids, from pre CSA to GCSEs) I did find elements of this book that I recognise from my own practice and some of the practical ideas I think are useful.
However I have given it 1 star as I truly hope this book doesn't find its way into the hands of nervous new home educators. It isn't written by home educators and that is glaringly obvious. From iffy (being kind) advice on dealing with LAs to a little to no understanding of the reality of sitting exams as a home educator.
I'm not one who thinks home education is the best thing since sliced bread, it isn't always easy. This book though is very blinkered in approach and I do wonder how much contact the authors had with what is a very diverse group of people in reality. The people that crop up here are not the norm. It feels like it's describing the home ed world on the 1980's not today.
However I have given it 1 star as I truly hope this book doesn't find its way into the hands of nervous new home educators. It isn't written by home educators and that is glaringly obvious. From iffy (being kind) advice on dealing with LAs to a little to no understanding of the reality of sitting exams as a home educator.
I'm not one who thinks home education is the best thing since sliced bread, it isn't always easy. This book though is very blinkered in approach and I do wonder how much contact the authors had with what is a very diverse group of people in reality. The people that crop up here are not the norm. It feels like it's describing the home ed world on the 1980's not today.
June 7, 2020
It was a good read. A lot of it wasn't overly original however I have read an enormous about of books on the subject. It used a lot of lingo and references from the UK which didn't help me here in the USA.
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