Home Education Curriculum

[Flower19]

Hello,
I am a student who is currently studying a module in Alternatives in Education. I found home education and the curriculum a very interesting topic and therefore I am choosing to write my assignment on this. To gain some primary insight and some "real" opinions on this topic i would be extremely grateful if any home educators wouldn't mind completing a short (10 question) survey on this. It would be very beneficial to my assignment if any one is able to take part and i thank you in advance.

All of the information if confidential and anonymous
the link for the survey if you wish to take part is below:
www.surveymonkey.com/s/DHP5ZCY

I've only recently started HE but I'll give it a go.

www.surveymonkey.com/s/DHP5ZCY

Done it.

Done it too.

I've done it....but OP you need to read up a whole lot more about home educating-and find out about autonomous home based education/unschooling. I have included some suggested reading for you.
Your curriculum based questionnaire doesn't fit with the education recieved by a mass of the home educating community in the UK.

hope that helps!

I've done it!

I've done it - and I agree with julie. Even as a more structured home educator, I use different curriculum for different subjects, even for different children. Educating style would be a better phrasing than curriculum (though even that can change from subject and child).

Can I ask what these other curricula are? I (ex teacher) am only aware of the national curriculum. Anything else we do tends to be out of my own brain!

For maths, I use Math Mammoths because DS1 loves feeling he completed something and it includes games and such for teaching which works well for both him and DD1. For early reading, I use piper books (again, DS1 felt like a reader once he could complete a book by himself) after I used a different programme to teach the letter sounds and how to write them (it gave him the start of beautiful cursive handwriting, but he found reading phonomes rather than words frustrating and found not being able to read a whole book without help just as much).

For RE, I use a traditional yeshiva approach (read the text, discuss, debate, discuss, debate, until ideas solidify or we get really far off topic ). Not really a curriculum, but a style that's used for thousands of years so lots of material and it lends itself to other topics as well.

You can buy all-in-one curriculum sets, even for methods that don't lend itself to it like Charlotte Mason, but I've never found one truly includes everything so nothing as all-in-one as the National Curriculum.