Lockdown Learning
As COVID-19 swept the globe from east to west this year, so has home education. Millions of children woke up one morning to find their schools closed and their new teachers are their parents. Learning at home can be a wonderfully liberating and connecting experience for families that choose it but it can also be daunting and exhausting even at the best of times. And let’s face it – this is not the best of times. No one planned for this. And whereas Home Education is usually done more out of the home than in it as families meeting up with others to socialize, play and learn together all that’s off the table right now.
East Kent Sudbury School (www.ekss.co.uk) grew from a group of home educators and as passionate advocates for alternative education we’ve teamed up with our friends at Alpine Valley School (www.alpinevalleyschool.com) in Denver, Colorado to bring you a special podcast season to help you not just survive learning in lockdown but get the most out of this out of school experience.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2020
The Future of Education
Our lockdown learning journey has come to an end with our final episode of our podcast this week, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making it. We’d like to also say thank y…
What special needs tell us about schools
As alternative educational settings we often hear from parents of children struggling with the mainstream approach to learning. Children who need to move more than the school day allows for, find it …
Play, play and more play
“Play is really the work of children, play is how they understand the world and how they become adults. The importance of play cannot be overstated” remarked Larry Welshon in last week’s episode abou…
Democratic Education: The Power of a Vote
If, like Alex O’Neill who we spoke to in our last episode, lockdown has caused to you to pause and reconsider what learning looks like for your children you might be wondering what your options are.…
Moving Forwards not Backwards
Millions of children around the world will have had a completely different learning experience over the past 12 weeks. For many it will have been a difficult experience missing the company of their …
Deschooling: The Art of Letting Go
Finding yourself suddenly without the structure of school you are used to can be liberating for some and scary for others. We all remember the moment we realised we were leaving formal education beh…
From Teacher to Home Educator
Becoming your child’s teacher overnight can be a daunting challenge, but as your child’s parent you know them better than anyone - you might just have all the qualifications you need after all. Many…
Mind the gap - How children learn at home
Just how do children learn when not in a classroom?
We all know what learning looks like in school - we’ve all been there it’s familiar to us. But not so many grew up home educated or in self-di…
Managing Mental Health & Wellbeing in Lockdown
I don’t know how much more of this I can take!
Stuck in the house - or maybe a tiny flat - together, day after day, week after week. Lockdown is starting to feel rather like groundhog day isn’t it…
Home Education 101
So, you’re suddenly homeschooling – what now?
The global COVID-19 lockdown happened so fast no one really had time to prepare themselves for it. We’ll be talking to two seasoned home educators, Rache…