Murphy101 Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Other than ambleside? Very curious to know what and how him school curriculum outside the USA looks and works? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Galore Park is an English publisher whose materials I've liked. We've used their Latin, "junior" history, and science materials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 We used Open University's General Science curriculum. It was astoundingly good as a freshman high school course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitilin Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 There's Mater Amabilis, which is kinda like AO, but has a British scheme as well as a US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 (edited) Other than ambleside? Very curious to know what and how him school curriculum outside the USA looks and works? TIA Galore Park is wonderful, especially for instruction of (real) English ;) and Latin. Nearly all 6 years that I had Latin, I had British instructors and I find that the British materials have much better pronunciation resources than the ones I've tried from the US, which sound very twangy and weirdly hillbilly to me. I have found some wonderful Canadian history resources including Donna Ward's books, and Heather Penner's Through Canadian Eyes (which uses SOTW as one of the spine choices). Kids Can Press publishes a great series of books on Canadian history that is a always a welcome addition. There is also a fabulous series of books by Robert Livesey. For Canadian civics, there is a wonderful online resource called Civics Canada Online Textbook. Nallenart's French language curriculum is a very important choice to me, as it is Canadian French, which is what we actually speak in my region, not Parisian French. The grammar is the same, but there are some significant vocabulary differences between the two. We've tried other French programs, but it is confusing to be learning phrases that no one here would ever use. ETA: I find Oak Meadow to be very useful (obviously). Except in the years that are specifically devoted to American history (grades 5 and 8), I find OM to be refreshing in that it is not particularly ameri-centric. Edited September 21, 2010 by Audrey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 MEP Math is from the UK (and based on a Hungarian program). Primary Mathematics is from Singapore. Tokyo Shoseki Math is from Japan. Russian Math 6 is Russian. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Light Education Ministries has a phonics/ spelling program. It will have your children speaking with a great Australian accent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Not exactly what you meant, but homeschoolers all use so many Usborne products - many of the encyclopedias are used as spines in various curricula - and they're a British company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieZ Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Galore Park has lots of stuff. (UK) Singapore Math, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfgivas Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 to add to some of the others, we also really like "Teach your children to read well", a combined language arts curriculum from Ontario. and Cambridge Latin from england. hth, ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Lingua Latina per se illustrata is from Denmark. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Galore Park (Latin, French, Spanish, Geography, History, Greek, English, Maths) from the UK; Singapore Maths. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 There are a couple of Australian history options, and an Australian geography study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Skoldo french and spanish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 There's a South African history program. Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Dorling Kindersley is a book company we use frequently and they are headquarted in London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 (edited) I've located some old textbooks (mostly English grammar) used in the Philippines in years past that are very interesting. I made a list in this post. These are on Google Books. I am not sure if they're available elsewhere, but I've provided the full title and authors' names, so anyone interested can more easily search further using that list. Mona McGee has her Cat Phonics online (UK based program for reading). I've posted before that the Indian education ministry (NCERT) has made their entire set of textbooks available online for free, and another website has organized them. (Please see the other thread if you have trouble with the Environmental Science book; I found the links at that time.) This includes Science and Math, as well as English, Social Studies, Business, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. Several people on this board have advised me that they are using these books for language learning. The math workbooks by Kyoiku Dojinsha and the texts by Tokyo Shoseki are sold in the US (in English) by Global Education Resources. As I mentioned in this thread, there is another series, published by Gakkoh Tosho, that's been translated into English that one can buy; I've provided the ISBN numbers and purchasing suggestions for those who wish to order them. If you have a particular country in mind, you may be able to buy their school textbooks online or in person during a visit. I have done this myself (both in person and online). It would also be possible with, for example, those Japanese books posted above. Kate in Arabia has posted quite a few links to Arabic language textbooks for language learning; you could search for those. She has bought some of them from Lebanon via the internet, I believe. Additionally, for some subjects, people may be relying on "regular" books to teach certain subjects, especially (I suspect) history, instead of textbooks. Edited September 21, 2010 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share Posted September 21, 2010 Not really looking for a specific country. With all the talk lately about the States being behind educationally, I thought it would be interesting to compare options. Some I knew and just really didn't think of such as Singapore and MEP. Others had not heard of.. Keep it coming and thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Not really looking for a specific country. With all the talk lately about the States being behind educationally, I thought it would be interesting to compare options. They are used in private schools and are advanced compared to the state schools. By about age 13 they are running about a year ahead of the state school curricula. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share Posted September 21, 2010 They are used in private schools and are advanced compared to the state schools. By about age 13 they are running about a year ahead of the state school curricula. Laura State as in ahead of the US or state as in ahead for the country it is primarily used in? Or ahead of both?:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 I also don't think Ambleside is exactly non-American; many of their materials are focused on the US. I think it's more a different approach, based on some idea of an ideal education or 19th century education a la Charlotte Mason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 State as in ahead of the US or state as in ahead for the country it is primarily used in? Or ahead of both?:) A 'state school' in the UK is what you call a 'public school' in the US. So Galore Park is ahead of the majority of UK schools. The UK education system in general does move faster than that in the US. The equivalent of AP exams are essential for entrance to university in England and Wales, then the university degree is only three years, not four: general requirements are assumed to have been fulfilled at school, so one specialises immediately at university. There are, of course, many people who don't take A levels (AP equivalents). Our compulsory education currently ends at sixteen (that is due to change to eighteen) and many people leave school at sixteen with few or no qualifications. So the UK system allows bright students in good schools to achieve faster, but it's not a panacea. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_l_e_0..Q_c Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Tokyo Shoseki Math is from Japan.Russian Math 6 is Russian. Bill Are you sure about these two?? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_l_e_0..Q_c Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 The French have their complete curriculum available for free online, for whoever wants it. http://www.academie-en-ligne.fr Directly from their ministry of education. That's service! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Are you sure about these two?? :lol: Actually the authors of Russian Math 6 were Estonians but wrote the program back in the bad-old Soviet era. "Estonian Math 6" just doesn't have the same ring to it :lol: Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_l_e_0..Q_c Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 "Estonian Math 6" just doesn't have the same ring to it :lol: Bill It should be Soviet Mathematics, da!! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 It should be Soviet Mathematics, da!! :tongue_smilie: Might not be good for sales Comrade :D Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In The Great White North Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 So, were any of these actually designed for homeschooling or are they regular school textbooks that happen to be for sale? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_l_e_0..Q_c Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 So, were any of these actually designed for homeschooling or are they regular school textbooks that happen to be for sale? The French one is designed for homeschooling or rather, long distance schooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 I've posted before that the Indian education ministry (NCERT) has made their entire set of textbooks available online for free, and another website has organized them. (Please see the other thread if you have trouble with the Environmental Science book; I found the links at that time.) This includes Science and Math, as well as English, Social Studies, Business, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. Several people on this board have advised me that they are using these books for language learning. Thank you for these links. I'd not seen your previous posts on these materials. I'm appreciative that you re-posted! Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 (edited) So, were any of these actually designed for homeschooling or are they regular school textbooks that happen to be for sale? Mona McGee developed her phonics materials for her son, and I think that website is fairly clearly for, or accessible to, the parent teacher. She does have a textbook (you can buy it from Galore Park or Book Depository or wherever else you buy such things). She has lots of games. The others that I posted are clearly school texts. I don't think India or Japan has a very large textbooks-for-homeschoolers market. Edited September 21, 2010 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishboneDawn Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Nallenart's French language curriculum is a very important choice to me, as it is Canadian French, which is what we actually speak in my region, not Parisian French. The grammar is the same, but there are some significant vocabulary differences between the two. We've tried other French programs, but it is confusing to be learning phrases that no one here would ever use. Not to mention it's simply an excellent program. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 So, were any of these actually designed for homeschooling or are they regular school textbooks that happen to be for sale? There are very few home educators in the UK - not enough to make a market. Galore Park has been very welcoming and helpful to the HE market, however. Singapore Math is a curriculum designed for school use, based on Singapore's old government standards. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 So, were any of these actually designed for homeschooling or are they regular school textbooks that happen to be for sale? MEP (Mathematics Enhancement Programme) ordinarily speaking is not "for sale." The files are available online as PDFs without fees for self-printing. This Hungarian/British program(me) was created to raise math standards in schools. The "Lesson Plan" portion of the program has daily teaching ideas and activities that function much like a "home instructors guide" despite being aimed at school teachers. Some teaching activities assume multiple children, but these activities can be worked around. Primary Mathematics (Singapore Math) was developed for the classroom, but singaporemath.com has produced HIGs aimed at home educators, and has a proven track-record in home education. In this country the use of Primary Mathematics has gone (mainly) from the homeschool market to the use by schools in the classroom. Russian Math 6 is a Soviet school textbook. The publishers of the English edition have been slow in releasing a full answer-key, but I have a few years. Tokyo Shoseki is Japanese school math textbook and this series lacks the "homeschool support" in the similar Singapore Math program. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifra Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 World-Wide Education Service is based in the UK and is a correspondence program for ages 4-14. Jolly Phonics, which is sold in the USA by Rainbow Resource, is a UK program for the teaching of phonics to young children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 So, were any of these actually designed for homeschooling or are they regular school textbooks that happen to be for sale? I *think* that LEM phonics was developed for homeschooling, but I may be wrong because I know some Christian schools use it. The Wide Brown Land (Aussie History from Adnil Press) The Australian Book Traveller (geography from Downunder Lit who have produced quite a lot of curriculum) were both developed for homeschooling. I'm not sure about Our Sunburnt Country Adnil press has also produced a LA curriculum which is specifically for homeschoolers. Obviously there are a full range of Australian textbooks aimed at schools that HSers can use too. The thing is that the Home Ed market is huge in the US compared with other countries, the market here is very small so it is hard to justify the cost of producing curricula just for homeschoolers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted September 22, 2010 Share Posted September 22, 2010 Oh, and Fitzroy Phonics program is another Aussie one. Made for schools, but used by many homeschoolers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted September 22, 2010 Share Posted September 22, 2010 (edited) Hey, maybe I should start that one with my kids - we could learn to talk kiwi or however you put it. ETA: Aha, it's Australian. What fun. My husband thinks he has a great imitation Australian accent (NOT!). But I have relatives there who'd be delighted. ;) Edited September 22, 2010 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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