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How to Write an “Active Learning” Homeschool Lesson Plan
I’m your coach, Diane Lockman, and I’m passionate about helping you become a better homeschool teacher. Now that my kids are adults, I encourage other moms and dads on the journey with simple, time-saving tips on classical lesson planning, teaching strategies, and college prep. After nearly 20 years, I’ve learned that all intellectual skills can be boiled down to teaching the child how to read, think, write, and speak. Help on writing an argumentative essay will help you better understand the topic and write a decent work on the steps of learning.
In short, here’s how I define my homeschooling philosophy and ultimate goal:
An educated child is one who (1) knows how to use his native language to (2) reason critically so that he can (3) communicate effectively.”
Now grab your earbuds because it’s time to learn about authentic classical education, homeschool planning, teaching strategies, academic scholarships, and so much more.
In this introductory podcast, I want to set the stage for future episodes by sharing two classical principles that will help you in your homeschool planning: (1) the difference between active and passive learning, and (2) the six steps to writing the lesson plan. If you ever get stuck on a future lesson plan, come back to this page to review the basic principles of planning the homeschool lesson.
Make Sure Your Kid Does Something With the New Material
First, your goal as a classical educator is to facilitate active learning, not passive learning. Remember passive learning is the traditional way of teaching where the kid just sits there like a sponge, soaking up every little morsel of data that the teacher says, so that he can regurgitate it on the test. Passive learning goes like this: "blah, blah, blah, test”.
Things like lectures and reading fall short of their full potential unless the kid does something with the new information to make it his own. Instead of dumping a bunch of data on the child, the better way to ensure learning is to break the new content into small activities where he can play or experiment with the new information. This is called active learning. So instead of “blah, blah, blah, test” you set up an interactive environment for learning:
So there are short bursts of learning reinforced by active engagement with the content. Now when I say DO, I mean engage the new material with hands-on touching, building, observing details, discussing, paraphrasing, narrating, or any number of creative ways to get involved with the new info. The ‘back & forth – give & take’ style of conversation modeled by Socrates and his apprentices is a form of active learning.
Get more:
The College Quandary
Are online classes for me?
I’m your coach, Diane Lockman, and I’m passionate about helping you become a better homeschool teacher. Now that my kids are adults, I encourage other moms and dads on the journey with simple, time-saving tips on classical lesson planning, teaching strategies, and college prep. After nearly 20 years, I’ve learned that all intellectual skills can be boiled down to teaching the child how to read, think, write, and speak. Help on writing an argumentative essay will help you better understand the topic and write a decent work on the steps of learning.
In short, here’s how I define my homeschooling philosophy and ultimate goal:
An educated child is one who (1) knows how to use his native language to (2) reason critically so that he can (3) communicate effectively.”
Now grab your earbuds because it’s time to learn about authentic classical education, homeschool planning, teaching strategies, academic scholarships, and so much more.
In this introductory podcast, I want to set the stage for future episodes by sharing two classical principles that will help you in your homeschool planning: (1) the difference between active and passive learning, and (2) the six steps to writing the lesson plan. If you ever get stuck on a future lesson plan, come back to this page to review the basic principles of planning the homeschool lesson.
Make Sure Your Kid Does Something With the New Material
First, your goal as a classical educator is to facilitate active learning, not passive learning. Remember passive learning is the traditional way of teaching where the kid just sits there like a sponge, soaking up every little morsel of data that the teacher says, so that he can regurgitate it on the test. Passive learning goes like this: "blah, blah, blah, test”.
Things like lectures and reading fall short of their full potential unless the kid does something with the new information to make it his own. Instead of dumping a bunch of data on the child, the better way to ensure learning is to break the new content into small activities where he can play or experiment with the new information. This is called active learning. So instead of “blah, blah, blah, test” you set up an interactive environment for learning:
So there are short bursts of learning reinforced by active engagement with the content. Now when I say DO, I mean engage the new material with hands-on touching, building, observing details, discussing, paraphrasing, narrating, or any number of creative ways to get involved with the new info. The ‘back & forth – give & take’ style of conversation modeled by Socrates and his apprentices is a form of active learning.
Get more:
The College Quandary
Are online classes for me?