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Christchurch

11 - 12 September 2009

Location

Time

**Please bring a contribution for morning/afternoon tea if you are attending on Saturday.

Rates from 22 August 2009

For more information down load the registration forms. (220 kb)

Workshops

Workshop session details

Reading, Writing and Maths in the Early Years Lennie Harrison Practical tips, activities and games that help with learning to read, write and do maths, and a logical sequence for introducing them. They will be useful no matter what curriculum (or non-curriculum) you're using, because they're often quick and easy and don't require a lot of preparation, and they can lighten up the day. Feel free to bring some ideas of your own to share with the group.

"Meat for Teenagers" Lennie Harrison Questions tend to pop up during the teen years. Teens themselves have questions like: "What is God's will for me?" or "Why should I bother with what God wants?" Parents may ask: "What resources have others found helpful for their teens?", "What kind of parental involvement are we looking at and why?" or "What can we expect from our teens?" Lennie will share her perspective, followed by discussion. Predominantly Christian content.

Character Training. Linda Gage The Home Education environment is a wonderful opportunity to focus on our children’s character. Linda will explore what character is, what affects its development and practical suggestions to support your character training through everyday life. The goal is to have an abnormal teenager! Start now!

Time Management. Linda Gage Are you juggling too many balls while wearing hats of all shapes and sizes? Life is very busy as a mum at home. This workshop will look at the practical, emotional and spiritual sides of running your home, raising and educating your children, organizing all the stuff, training the Clean Team and keeping it all in balance.

“Avoiding Burnout – Keeping Going When the Going Gets Tough” Barbara Smith This workshop will include a discussion of the symptoms of burnout and specifically causes of home school burnout. Strategies for avoiding burnout will also be discussed in detail.

NEW!! Developing Good Thinking Skills in the Course of Life. Led by Helen Pearson This seminar gives ideas to help us to extend our children’s thinking past the recall of the “right” answers through to research, reasoning, reflecting, responding and reviewing. It will be practical, and immediately useful in whatever unit study or subject you are learning about. Helen will also briefly introduce the Interact Curriculum, a flexible, integrated, Christian curriculum based on these principles. Helen and Dean Pearson have been home educating their five children for 15 years. Helen has worked as teacher and principal, she has trained student teachers and led seminars for homeschoolers and she is the author of the Interact Curriculum.

The History of Interact While still a very young teacher, Helen Pearson, author of the Interact Curriculum, became the founding principal of KingsWay School in Orewa, New Zealand. Through this experience, though it was quite overwhelming at times, God birthed in Helen a great enthusiasm for education that seeks to honour God, and a joy in developing curriculum to this end. After leaving KingsWay School, Helen was asked to develop material to assist others to integrate Biblical faith and world view into a dynamic learning programme. In answer to this request, the week before her first child was born, Helen created a curriculum overview – a four year cycle – for KingsWay School, believing that it would one day be available for wider use. Between 1991 and 2001, Helen gradually developed sixteen units of work, each suitable for one term’s work. She has also had five children! Her husband, Dean and her mother have been a wonderful support with the children during the times she has worked on curriculum development. The Interact Curriculum is now in use in approximately one third of schools in the NZ Association of Christian Schools. A number of homeschoolers also use the curriculum. In 2008, in response to the new NZ Curriculum and recent educational thinking, Helen began updating the previous Interact Curriculum manuals. The Interact Curriculum is now being written by a team of educators, and frequent input and critique from educators, advisors, and experts in various educational fields (both Christian and secular) who have been so willing to invest time and advice into the curriculum as Helen has developed.

Children

Crèche will be provided for children 3 and under only. A parent’s room with sound from the auditorium is available for mum’s with babies.

No children’s programme will be available but quiet children over 12 are welcome to attend sessions.

Registrations

Post registration forms (220 kb) with payment (cheques made out to CHE) to 12 Egmont Place, Harewood, Christchurch. Internet banking: please deposit with your surname & Conference as a reference: A/C 03 0802 0162706 00

Coordinator  Linda Gage

 Phone +64 3 324 3329                   

If you need to leave a message, please give a land line number 

Email: DianaWaringChristchurch@hef.org.nz

12 Egmont Place Harewood Christchurch NZ

Sponsoring this event

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