Conversational Homeschooling

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Conversational Homeschooling. Conversational Homeschooling Sabrina is here today to share ideas about conversational homeschooling. While Sabrina made up the phrase, it fits Sabrina's style of homeschooling her high schoolers. You will be SO encouraged by Sabrina's ideas for teaching teens. What is conversational homeschooling? Real learning for teens often occurs during conversations. Have you ever noticed that? Moments of true insight will occur during a formal or even, informal chat with your homeschool high schoolers. (Actually, the same thing is true for adults, we bet you have noticed.) This episode is aimed at: * New homeschool high school moms * Current homeschool high school moms * All homeschool moms, actually During homeschool high school, moms often become less a teacher and more a resource manager as our teens gain independent learning skills: * Choose the curriculum * Create syllabi * Create rubrics * Organize field trips * Organize labs and hands-on learning * Guide booklist choices * Documentaries and movies to watch * Grade papers These are all important and vital for learning but we sometimes loose some of the fun of homeschooling. However, we can remember that really cool learning happens in discussions. You may have noticed this yourself. Think about when you have been learning a new hobby or skill; or studying a new topic in Bible study. You will probably have studied and practiced and feel pretty good about what you are learning. However, if you have coffee with a friend and tell her about what you are doing, it will truly cement the information. Think: Data in, learning starts---learning happens when the data (words) come out! Where can I use conversational homeschooling? There are many situations where conversational homeschooling will increase your teens' educational success. Organizing Research Paper Material The idea of conversational homeschooling is useful for helping teens with their first research papers. Many teens feel overwhelmed by the process. They need help organizing their data and capturing it in a proper research-paper format. Study guides can really help ease them through the process but discussions with mom can be invaluable in helping teens organize their thoughts about what they are learning. Avoiding Plagiarism Over the years as many of us 7Sisters have taught research writing in homeschool co-ops and group classes, we have noticed the challenge teens have in organizing their thoughts. Teens who cannot organize their data and thoughts sometimes fall into the ...