Welcome to The Educating Parent Beverley Paine's archive of articles about homeschooling and unschooling written over a period of 30 plus years

Free download a quick guide to getting started with homeschooling and unschooling by Beverley Paine The Educating Parent in this excellent Resource Directory
Introduction to
Home Education

 

Free directory of Australian homeschooling and unschooling support groups organised by national, state and territories National and State
Support Groups

 

Plan, record and report all in the one document! Always Learning Books planners available in each year level to suit your homeschooling needs, includes curriculum checklists
Yearly Planner, Diary & Report

Let Beverley and friends help you design and write your own curriculum to suit your child's individual learning needs, learn how to prepare lessons, unit studies and more, record and evaluate your children's learning in this series of 3 parent workbooks developed on Beverley's popular homeschool manual Getting Started with Home School Practical Considerations

Homeschool Course for Parents

this Always Learning Year 7 Plan is everything you need to get started a comprehensive collection of curriculum aligned resources and links to activities, lesson plans and unit studies for your year 7 homeschooling student
Homeschool Learning Plans
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For two years we've produced one comprehensive directory but it had grown too large and responding to feedback from you, our loyal readers, we've split our Resource Directory into five separate directories, each with their own special purpose, packed with useful information to help you get started with home educating your children.

Two of our 5 Directories are updated regularly with current links to government agencies, educational resources and providers and home educating support groups.

Introduction to Home Education

Let Beverley help to demystify home educating with her 'quick guide' which explains what homeschooling and unschooling are, how to get started, withdraw your children from school and navigate the application and registration and review processes. You'll be accessing this Directory over and again as a home educating parent!

  • Homeschooling and Unschooling Defined - a succinct and useful explanation of what home education actually is...
  • A Quick Guide to Getting Started with Home Education - gleaned from this website, summarising Beverley's invaluable experience picked up from over 3o years of helping families home educate their children
  • State and Territory Registration Information
  • An Outline of a Typical Educating Day - an example of what home education can look like (it doesn't have to look like school!)
  • Links to Curriculum Resources
  • List of Educational Competitions your children can access to help them learn
  • Distance Education Schools & Colleges for those of us with one foot in the classroom door and the other firmly planted in the home learning environment
  • Over 500 links to educational providers, services and products

Australian Support Groups

Get in touch with local home educators fast, or start your own group and email Beverley to add it to this Directory. Added to and updated regularly.

  • links to 100s of Home Ed Support Groups in every State and Territory across Australia
  • Quick links to educational and curriculum resources

 

Australian Homeschooling and Unschooling Blogs

With links to over 80 Australian awecome Homeschooling and Unschooling Blogs - stories for you to follow, encourage and reassure you!

Includes quick links to educational and curriculum resources.

If you write about your home educating journey (blog or Facebook page) and want it listed in our Directory, email Beverley today.

 

Home Educating Families in Business

Our Home Educators Business Directory help connect home educating families with other home educating families who are running their own businesses - let's support each other! Organised in two sections - the first in business categories, followed by state by state listings.

Email today to have your business included - listing for home educating families is FREE. Your business can be anything - from plumbing, photography or pet grooming - it doesn't need to be related to education!

 

The BIG List of Home Educating Books

Beverley has been compiling this list for over 2 decades and it keeps growing! There are hundreds of books about home education, how to home educate, different approaches to home educating, etc. This a reading list that will keep you reading for decades and provide all you ever wanted to know about helping your children learn without school!

If you are an author or have a favourite home ed book not yet listed, email Beverley with the details to have it included today.

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Support Groups: National SA VICWANSW QLD TAS ACT NT
Registration Guides: VIC NSW QLD SA WA TAS ACT
NT

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Need a ready made homeschool learning plan in a hurry for your homeschool registration? Try one of our Always Learning Books homeschool year level learning plans, packed with links to FREE lesson plans, unit studies and activities for each curriculum subject area, hundreds of suggestions, use what you want, only $18

Want to learn how to write your own education plans to suit your unique children's individual learning needs?

itap into Beverley's four decades of home educating experience and learn how to write your own homeschool curriculum and learning plans to suit your child's and your family's individual needs, a complete how to homeschool course for parents in 3 self paced workbooks each focusing on a different aspect of home educating, planning, recording, evaluating and creating lesson plans image shows 3 workbooks, plus samples of pages, and 3 children walking in bushland

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Twinkl downloadable Home education resources helping you teach confidently at home

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The information on this website is of a general nature only and is not intended as personal or professional advice. This site merges and incorporates 'Homeschool Australia' and 'Unschool Australia'.

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