shukriyya Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Trying to decide between these two. AFF looks like it would have more appeal here in terms of content but SW1 comes on dvd with teaching. Does anyone have any recs for one or the other of these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sew happily ever after Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I love AFF! But it does require you to teach the material yourself and it serves as a gentle an fun introduction to IEW. The SWI would have the DVD for the teaching part but you would till need to work with your child on the assignment. Personally I prefer to do the teaching myself and AFF is so much less expensive than the SWI so actually I think it's a matter of preference. Do you want to do the teaching? Have you watched some of the TWSS? Do you undrstanf the terminology and methodology of IEW? Then AFF would be fine. But if you would rather have a "teacher" then the SWI would be the way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddle Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Have you watched some of the TWSS? Do you undrstanf the terminology and methodology of IEW? Then AFF would be fine. But if you would rather have a "teacher" then the SWI would be the way to go. :iagree: We decided to go with SWI B because it is giving me several months to learn the teaching method through TWSS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted May 6, 2012 Author Share Posted May 6, 2012 I'm fine with doing the teaching myself. I haven't however watched the TWSS video. It does seem from the AFF sample that the material is relatively self-explanatory and I feel fairly comfortable teaching writing at this level. What do you think? Doable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sew happily ever after Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 I do think it's doable but it probably isn't recommended. Lol! That said I did teach most of the ancient history based lessons this year before viewin the TWSS. And even then I only watched it because I wanted to become a registered teacher and be able to teach the material to other students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted May 6, 2012 Author Share Posted May 6, 2012 Did you find the videos significantly helpful or only mildly so? Another way to phrase that would be, did you feel you did a much better job after viewing them than prior to having the TWSS context? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sew happily ever after Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 They were informative. I didn't have any "aha" moments. However they did a great job of explaining things/terminology. Also i felt that the TWSS was more helpful on the longer and more challenging units. I am a licensed teacher (not that that makes any difference) and have taught at the elementary level--all grades--for about 13 years. IEW just makes sense to me. I really hate to say that you dont need the TWSS or that you would have the same success because you might not. I do think there might be some foreign language in there (sentence openers, dress ups, etc.) might not make much sense. So I guess you could try it knowing that in the long run you might need to see the TWSS. Is there anyone you could borrow it from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted May 7, 2012 Author Share Posted May 7, 2012 Thanks for your input. It's been helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 I went through TWSS last summer and tried to do AFF on my own, but i feel that my ds would like the videos much better. I'm probably going to be doing SWI-A in a group setting next year. I'm not sure I could have ever taught AFF without going through TWSS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjins Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 We started with SWIA and then used a history IEW, my children asked if there are more videos of Andrew. We are now doing SICCA. I believe they enjoy his upbeat attitude and humor as well as having me HELP them rather than teaching them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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