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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Greetings 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 [...]
Some Support Groups in New Zealand
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Here are some links with Home Education Support Groups in New Zealand:
http://nzhomeed.wordpress.com/
http://www.home.school.nz/
http://www.home-education.org.nz/networking.html
http://www.homeschoolers.wellington.net.nz/Resources.htm
http://nzhomeed.wordpress.com/
http://www.kiwifamilies.co.nz/Topics/Education/Education+Overview/Home+Schooling.html
http://www.nchenz.org.nz/member_groups/member_groups.htm
Here you can add your own support group:
http://www.home-school.com/groups/newzealand.html
Home Education New Zealand suppliers
http://hef.org.nz/2008/nz-homeschooling-suppliers/
Homeschooling on a Shoestring
Thursday, March 27th, 2008‘Home School Heartbeat’: Homeschooling on a Shoestring
If you’re one of the many homeschooling families feeling senselessly trapped on a tight budget–just remember, it’s not too late to start saving money! From inexpensive curriculum, affordable teaching tools, to low-cost field trips, author Melissa Morgan talks about a few ways families can save on a shoestring budget [...]
Getting Started - Did You Know….?
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007DID YOU KNOW……..?
*More than 6,000 New Zealand children are currently being taught by parents at home.
*Various curriculum options are available to cater for different educational philosophies.
*Local support groups meet regularly
*You don’t have to be a qualified teacher to educate your children well.
*Average parents routinely produce children with superior academic and social abilities
*You don’t need to [...]
Getting Started - Diagnostic Quiz
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Print out to answer
A quiz to help parents determine the type of education that best suits them and their children:
State School….Private School…. Home School
This quiz is designed to be taken with one primary-aged child in mind.
(All children are unique…take another quiz with another child in mind.)
1. It is important that my child receives excellent academic [...]
Getting Started - You Can Home School
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007http://www.youcanhomeschool.org/starthere/default.asp?bhcp=1
Getting Started - Email Discussion Groups
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Email Discussion groups moderated by the Home Education Foundation:
HefNet is the New Zealand based Home Education Foundation email list discussion NETwork.
Established in July 1998, this group has expanded quickly and includes home educators with a wonderfully diverse range of political, religious, philosophical, and methodological views. This mix makes for some red-hot yet edifying debates!Moderated [...]
Getting Started - Vision
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Loving and genuinely concerned parents are the best qualified of all to teach their own children. Who else is more motivated to invest the time, the money, the blood, sweat, toil and tears required for the child’s best interests than the parents? Who knows and understands the child better than the parents?A parent engaged in [...]
Getting Started - Expert Opinion
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007“A half century of research has failed to find any significant relationship between teacher certification and pupil achievement. The writer grieves to admit that, especially after a long career preparing teachers for certification. The one valid measure of teacher effectiveness is pupil achievement. Home schoolers have little difficulty in equaling or surpassing the pupil achievement [...]
Getting Started - Curriculum and Resources
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007There are many Christian and secular programmes available, both from overseas and from NZ, and many parents simply make up their own programme as they go. One of the best resources is the public library. Once you are officially home schooling, you will also have access to the National Library, to which only teachers normally [...]
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