Slache Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 I've come to the conclusion that I don't like scripted or otherwise bossy curriculum, I just want to learn the material and teach it myself. I love Kathy Jo's materials because they're so open to that concept, everything I need is right there and I can do it my way. What other materials are like that? The Well Trained Mind Teaching The Classics Teaching Writing With Structure and Style Bravewriter Activities Guide For The Al Abacus What else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 I don't understand... I can teach my own way using any curriculum at all. I do it all the time at school and when I homeschooled. Just because some curricula have a script doesn't mean you have to use it. Pending subject, you don't even have to go in the order the book puts things in. Even in ps, we tend to jump around in books (like Bio) to cover what we want to cover when we want to introduce it. Math builds upon itself, so be careful skipping there, but many other subjects cover topics. A student can come to me with any book and I can assist them by teaching what s/he needs when tutoring using my own way of explaining things. The same thing happens when teaching. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 IEW 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 I don't understand... I can teach my own way using any curriculum at all. I do it all the time at school and when I homeschooled. Just because some curricula have a script doesn't mean you have to use it. Pending subject, you don't even have to go in the order the book puts things in. Even in ps, we tend to jump around in books (like Bio) to cover what we want to cover when we want to introduce it. Math builds upon itself, so be careful skipping there, but many other subjects cover topics. A student can come to me with any book and I can assist them by teaching what s/he needs when tutoring using my own way of explaining things. The same thing happens when teaching. All of the scripted curricula I've looked at has so much on each page I'd have to dig through it just to find the material in order to teach it. It's just a pain. With Reading Lessons Through Literature I just have to read the introduction and then the material is provided for me to teach however I want. There's no time wasted, it's just straightforward. I want things like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 This is exactly the opposite of what I look for or do well with, so perhaps Classical Writing: Homer (core book only)? It gives you everything you need, but you have to wrap your head around it all first in order to teach it, IMO. Spell to Write & Read is like this, too, to an extent, because everything is right there & you can learn it yourself & then decide how to implement & exactly how to do it yourself, but there is also enough of a framework for you to follow Sanseri's (well, really Spalding's) method. I would have loved to have started with a hand-holding version of this (like Phonics Road or Logic of English's Foundations/Essentials). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 I used some scripted stuff in the beginning, but after awhile I branched out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. A Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 (edited) Spell to Write and Read Treasured Conversations The Handbook of Nature Study ETA: Drawing With Children The Eclectic Manual of Methods Edited July 21, 2016 by Mrs. A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 Spell to Write and Read Treasured Conversations The Handbook of Nature Study ETA: Drawing With Children The Eclectic Manual of Methods While I have you here, why did you stop using Ray's Arithmetic? Is it because there was something wrong with Ray's or was Beast Academy just a better fit for your family? You were supposed to be my go-to person for questions! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. A Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 While I have you here, why did you stop using Ray's Arithmetic? Is it because there was something wrong with Ray's or was Beast Academy just a better fit for your family? You were supposed to be my go-to person for questions! We haven't stopped actually. I guess I just forgot to keep it in my signature when I updated it. Beast Academy has been a fun splurge and we'll probably buy other levels too, if we have the funds, but Rays laid the foundation and we'll continue to use it alongside for quite some time yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 We haven't stopped actually. I guess I just forgot to keep it in my signature when I updated it. Beast Academy has been a fun splurge and we'll probably buy other levels too, if we have the funds, but Rays laid the foundation and we'll continue to use it alongside for quite some time yet.:hurray: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. A Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 The Seven Laws of Teaching is helpful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto4inSoCal Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Not a specific curriculum but I've found it easier to decide on my goals or objectives for the year and pick out pieces of curriculum to meet those goals or objectives. You have to let go of doing every bit of a curriculum and decide which parts are relevant to what you are trying to teach. I've never really found something that seem to do everything I need it to do. Curriculum is written for a general audience not the child I am teaching so some of it my be stuff they've already learned or it might be lacking what I need. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 ElizabethB's phonics vids taught me how to teach syllables. I opened my mouth to explain it to dd and found I had no idea why the syllable divides were where they are because I'd been taught to intuit by rhythm. And that really doesn't work with a kid who has auditory processing issues. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I have learned a lot from the Jesuits. I love the Ignatian philosophy of education. The 4 Hallmarks of a Jesuit Pedagogy offers a lot of good teaching advice. (Starts on page 177 on this pdf: section 13) https://www.jesuitschoolsnetwork.org/sites/default/files/resources/attachments/Foundations.pdf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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