Co-oping
For Cowards: Instruction Guide
by Pat Wesolowski and Karin Carpenter. Stress Free Homeschooling is
every mother's dream. This book can help make that dream a reality.
This resource booklet and accompanying video explain how learning as
a family (not in separate classes, but in a multi-age group with all
the parents participating) in a co-op setting encourages self-motivated
scholars, builds confident public speakers, and provides a real-world
reason to research, write and present material. Warning:
Co-ops are addictive. You and your kids will love them. The Appendix
provides reproducible maps, timelines, certificates and other tools
to make your co-oping adventure easier.
The
Authors:Veteran Homeschooling mother of nine, Pat Wesolowski
shares her experience . . . that getting kids excited about learning,
then teaching them how to research, organize and prepare information
makes home schooling "real" and much less stressful. Her Information,
Please! book series has helped countless homeschooling
families conquer a variety of research skills. But, according to Pat,
preparing students to speak boldly in public is the real joy of co-oping.
A frequent public speaker herself at homeschool conventions and support
groups around the country, Pat credits her co-op experience with preparing
her daughter to earn college scholarship money at a state speaking contest.
Pat has published more than a dozen books, including Big
Ideas Small Budget, Inventors, Inventions, &
Entrepreneurs: A Research-Based Unit Study and Civil
War: A Unit Study.
Karin
Carpenter is an "almost" second generation home school
mother of four. Her mother home schooled her youngest brother back in
the days when folks asked, "Is that legal?" A graduate of
Bryan College wtih a degree in English/Secondary Education, she has
taught math, Bible, and, of course, English, on the junior high, high
school and college level. She also teaches a home school writing seminar
designed for a mother/student team titled, "Get It Together:
The Research Paper." It is coming out shortly in book
format.
D.P.
& K. Productions, Dayton, TN 2002
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