Get to know more about homeschooling laws in Oklahoma as you explore our website devoted to the needs of home educators in this state. Connect with other homeschoolers for support and socialization, learn how to incorporate different ideas and homeschooling methods into your approch to homeschooling, and read out dealing with special challenges you may face. We offer all this and much, much more!
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. |
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- Jerome S. Bruner |
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Crazy 4 Math Contest |
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Kids, Share your creative math ideas! Describe how you use math in any activity you love to do—a sport, game, craft, hobby or anything else. Send in a description of the activity and how you use math. You can also include a drawing or diagram. All participants will receive an MP3 of Googol Power's new song "Crazy 4 Math" at the end. All finalists receive a copy of Googol Power's award winning CD "Multiplication Vacation". There are many other great prizes to be won including the chance to have your idea featured nationally in David M. Schwartz's "Math Moments"™ magazine column. Winners will be chosen by online voting. |
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Big Brother Inspired Teacher Training |
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Linda Dobson |
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People who remember the age-segregated classrooms of their own schooling wonder how in the world you can possibly teach children of different ages (or grades) at the same time. Maybe they tell you all children in this situation are getting short-changed in the process. You, however, see that homeschooling grows ever easier with subsequent children because little ones seem to pick up knowledge by osmosis when older siblings are learning in their vicinity. You perceive that the family environment supports social and emotional development easily and naturally as younger children take clues about growing up from older siblings. You know interaction between children of mixed ages mirrors the real world, and children grow more inclined to accept and help each other.
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Testing in the Schools |
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John Holt |
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John Holt's article in which he lists questions that should be asked of school districts' testing policies. |
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