Getting Started with Homeschooling
Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children
© Beverley Paine
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Homeschool
Australia
Part 4: Preparing the Learning Space
Creating an Environment for Quality Learning Experiences
Children learn wherever they are and at any time of the day. You can't stop them doing it! You can build on this by planning quality learning experiences for them. Quality learning experiences are those where everyone makes the most of the time available, and is happy with what they are doing and resultant outcomes, and where skills and information are retained for future use.
Quality learning experiences don't often happen by accident although many will occur without your intervention or planning. Your children will naturally seek out learning situations to avoid boredom. If your children aware demonstrating the classic symptoms of boredom, or are irritable and fighting among themselves or with you, preferring destructive over constructive behaviours, then it may be time to seriously consider the physical and attitudinal aspects of their environment. There are many factors which can contribute to unhappy home schooling situations and most are easily remedied.
This chapter examines those factors and hopefully will help you learn how to tailor educational opportunities to your child's unique personality and developmental needs.
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Excerpt from Getting Started with Homeschooling, Practical Considerations
© Beverley Paine, 1997
