Home Options• Curriculum materials• Your own reference books• Learning from real life & learning real life skills• Internet – research and online courses• Play – board games etc and imaginative play• Experiments• Conversation• Natural learning• Tutors• Open Learning• Reading• Documentaries• And so on…

Community Options

• Library• Clubs & Interest groups• Sports• Tutors & Mentors• Classes • Public lectures• Gifted holiday programs• Museums/Exhibitions/Field trips• Home Ed Group Activities• Community work – interacting with the community• And so on…

Further Afield

• Excursions• Camps• Gifted programs in other

towns/states• Field trips• Early entry to TAFE and

university• Exchange student programs• Traveling• And so on…

Post-it notes can be used to

fill in the Pyramid

Back to our Pyramid model…

For Home

Education

At Home

Community

Further Afield

Flexible Pace

Technology

Touch-typing

English

Essay writing and research skills

Maths

Pi in the Sky

LOTE

Latin with VSL

• On an A3 pyramid sheet you will fit on lots of notes.

• You can change your plan often without having to redraw the lot.

• A photocopy record can be kept at each stage if desired.

Notes can be ripped off and added as required.

Science

Cosmology with GERRIC

Music

Guitar lessons

Phys Ed

Netball team

SOSE

Environmental group

Advantages of Home EducationHome education is, by its very nature, suited to individual programming and to delight-led learning. Whether you choose a school-at-home approach or pursue natural learning or anything in between, your children’s love of learning will be valued and encouraged and they will be able to pursue their passionate interests and read to their heart’s content. Reading for

pleasure should not be thought of as a time waster.

Cross-age Learning

• Cross-age learning can occur very naturally in home education between siblings, in homeschool groups, and between children and adults

EXAMPLE : CHRISTIAN’S TEDDY DRAGONS

http://www.giftedresources.org/jo/teddydragons.htm

Creativity and freedom of expression

Tedling hatching Tedlings learn statistics by osmosis

Creativity and freedom of expression

Hours of imaginative play encourage creativity, develop imagination and provide a wealth of material for story-writing.

Home educated gifted students revel in the conversations home education makes possible. They also have time left over for as much thinking and daydreaming as they wish.

This is very important to any child but gifted children are more likely to be introverted than extroverted and will therefore thrive on the opportunity for reflective thought.

The Gift of Time

Reduced Emphasis on Producing WorkDue to the one-on-one nature of home education, parents are aware of where they are up to without requiring written evidence.

Often gifted children plan huge pieces of work which they don’t finish. Many start more things than they can complete but will finish more and more projects as they get older. Sometimes they don’t finish things because the task they have set themselves is far too big. On other occasions they stop before they finish a project because they have learnt all they wish to learn about it for now.

In home education children don’t have to produce something on paper in order to demonstrate that learning has happened.

Handwriting can sometimes be an issue for gifted students as their hand struggles to keep up with their brain.

Handwriting Alternatives

•Use computers

•Use tape recorders

•Make a model/visual representation

•Dictate to a parent or older siblingA passion for story-telling is therefore not limited by the struggle to control a pen and the fact that the pen goes so much slower than the story happening inside their mind.

S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

S - SUBSTITUTE (a person, place, time, situation)

C - COMBINE (bring together assorted ideas and situations)

A - ADAPT (or adjust to suit a purpose)

M - MODIFY

P - PUT TO OTHER USES

E - ELIMINATE A FEATURE OF THE STORY

R - REARRANGE OR REVERSE THE SEQUENCE OF THE STORY

Finding Resources

Complete coursesLibrariesTAFE, Community House etc. CoursesOLA Open UniversityInternet coursesGather collection from book shops, Op shops, garage sales, fetes, etc.Write own units Home schooling exposOtherways and similar publications

Some of Jo’s favourite resources…

Utilising the Internet

Research

On-line courses

Contact with peers of all ages & friends around the world

Contact with tutors & mentors

Participation in projects

Support groups