A Bit of Political Advice to Home Educators
The Editor would like to mention two things: When to speak and when not to speak.
The news that there will no longer be regular blanket reviews of everyone of us but only reviews of those over which there are specific [...]
NO MORE Home Education ERO REVIEWS!!!
Echoing then Minister of Education Dr Lockwood Smith in 1994, that he could not justify the expense of regular reviews on such a low-risk group as home educators, Chief Review Officer Graham Stoop wrote in February this year that reviews of home educators are not efficient or effective. [...]
Revised edition – October 2008
Preparing for an ERO Review by Craig Smith
New Zealand Home Educator’s Guidebook
Twenty A5 pages of insightful and helpful comment on the imminent arrival of the Review Officer. Chapters include: Overall Strategies, What They”re Looking For, What if You”ve Changed Curriculum, Access to Children, Home or Neutral Venue, Coping with a Negative [...]
Some-one asked on hefnetnz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hefnetnz/ and Trademe Message Board http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=29810245&threadid=29810245
“Is it TRUE that the MoE have decided to review every home schooled child in the next 12 months?”
Here is Craig’s answer:
Gidday all,
I think you can relax about this. Back in 1997/8 it was found that
neither the MoE nor the ERO actually had the [...]
Greetings all,
There have been a couple of requests lately for people willing to give exemption advice and encouragement.
Just a reminder that this is precisely what we at the Home Education Foundation are here for!
We help with preparing for exemptions and ERO reviews, how to understand and answer the exemption [...]
Many of you will be having ERO reviews this year. Here are a couple of booklets written by NZ authors to help you through:
1. Preparing for an ERO Review
by Craig Smith
$8.00 including postage
Preparing for an ERO Review
20 page Booklet A New Zealand Home Educator’s Guidebook Twenty A5 pages of insightful and helpful comment on [...]
Preparing for an ERO Review
(in an unschooling kind of way)
By Craig and Barbara Smith
When the ERO comes, they generally don’t look closely at what you have
written down. Such journals and notes as you may have are mostly
useful as a reminder for you to talk about what you have done. So
remember, if keeping a daily journal [...]
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