Teaching Methods: Stone Soup Homeschool Resources

So many ways to educate your children! Many of these links were suggested on our Facebook Page by homeschoolers just like you! If you would like to share your favorite resources from the web, or if you find links with problems, please Contact Us and let us know.

Charlotte Mason

Sometimes referred to as the "Living Books Approach." The Charlotte Mason method is centered around the idea that education is three-pronged: An Atmosphere, a Discipline, a Life. My favorite resources for this method are Ambleside Online and Simply Charlotte Mason Both feature ideas for narration, copywork and living books. Simply Charlotte Mason offers free "Book of the Centuries" and Manuscript Copywork pages as well.

Classical Education

The core of Classical Education is the trivium, which simply put is a teaching model that seeks to tailor the curriculum subject matter to a child’s cognitive development. The trivium emphasizes concrete thinking and memorization of the facts of the subjects in grade school; analyticalthinking and understanding of the subjects in middle school; andabstract thinking and articulation of the subjects in high school.

Thomas Jefferson Education

A Thomas Jefferson Education encompasses five "Environments of Mentoring:" Tutorial, Group Discussion, Lecture, Testing and Coaching and discusses how to teach each subject area. Teach History by reading biographies and the historians; Teach Math by reading great mathematical clasics of history (Euclid, Newton) and current thinkers; and so on.
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Unschooling

Generally, unschoolers are concerned with learning or becoming educated, not with 'doing school.' The focus is upon the choices made by each individual learner, and those choices can vary according to learning style and personality type.

Check out the Unschooling Yahoo Group

Stone Soup Homeschool Resources

Charlotte Mason

Classical Education

Thomas Jefferson Education

Unschooling

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