Robinson Curriculum and a Jefferson Education, pit falls to avoid
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2018
- Robinson and Thomas Jefferson curriculum are great simple homeschool programs that focus primarily on the 3 R's. It is a wonderful tool if you want to simplify your homeschool life during the chaotic years. However, I think there is something you should be aware of and I address that in this video.
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Robinson curriculum is not just the 3 Rs. There’s several subjects within it. The books are the subjects
We mix in other life skills, bible, field trips, I do monthly themed library hauls so kids have different resources for writing and I purchase resource books on a variety of topics like poetry, cooking, health, tons of natural science that includes an extensive collection on animals, lots of art books, art history, a collection on world cultures (food, art, games, customs), I personally love etymology so we have lots of english etymology resources. My older children go to trade school, my oldest just finished culinary school and will be starting another program in hospitality. We try to work in art and music where we can. Plus they cover all subjects in their RC reading list. Our backbone is 3Rs so whatever we do that day stays within that framework. Anything added falls under reading, writing or a mixture of both. Some days reading is broken up and they read other books and resources usually for research on a writing topic. Sometimes we do group reading like Kipling, Bible, little house on the Prarie or library books. They still read from RC books daily but maybe 30 mins of 2 hours might be spent reading or researching in other areas. Sometimes I direct the topics other times if I see an interest I'll let them pursue it. We leave the 3Rs very open ended but with a basic framework. We mostly do saxon math, an eclectic CM language arts approach using books and we go through the Robinson Curriculum booklist with a few additions and some books we skip. No curriculum, no workbooks, very flexible but full and rich for all my children from 1st-12th grade. I have kids of every age group and this works perfectly for us.
My husband and his siblings did the Thomas Jefferson and Robinson curriculum and enjoyed their childhood and upbringing as a pastor’s family. Way more than 3 R’s
New sub here. Thanks for sharing. I’ve been interested in the Robinson curriculum for many years and still curious about it. I also have a channel and it’s mainly about homeschooling right now. It would be fun to be friends and connect here 😊 looking forward to watching more of your content.
We have been using RC from the beginning. We absolutely love it! That being said, I can see how people get the view it as being bare bones so to speak. What we love about it is the simplicity.
Teach them how to read, and they can learn themselves anything. Teach them their math facts, and they can learn themselves upper level math which is the language of science.
We also have added many books to the list, while also tweaking it a little and requiring them to read from several different books a day. The wonderful thing about RC is after you finish the math texts, they include college level science texts for students, along with many books about animals, nature and the earth as they move up the list.
The goal is not to cram everything we can into their minds during school hours. But to expand their horizons and interests, by introducing them to many subjects in the books they read. Then if they find something they want to learn more about they can read as much as they want about it or do projects or experiments, but that isnt for us to contrive and set before them.
Love your videos so much! thanks for opening up your life for us to peep into ;)
THANK YOU for sharing that. Again, what I am reading above is not what I am seeing when I have conversations about RC. Their goal is to just check it off and not pursue anything but just be able to get stuff done.
If this was for a family that is homesteading, then I see it worthwhile because you are still out there learning.
If this is for a certain child who wants to learn and then build on a skill they want for their career, this is excellent.
But for a parent to choose to do this so that they can just be done and read books, or be on social media all day--- this is not what it was intended for.
If a parent chooses this because their child complains about doing school and this seems the best way to just hurry up through it so they child can get back to watching movies or playing video games- this is not what the curriculum was created for!
I may have not presented this well, and that is unfortunate, but this was my goal in making this video.
I love that you did this video and started this conversation, Challice!
Thank you! I hope it will be helpful for someone.
One of my mentor teachers in a teaching certificate program I took said, "You can do anything in the classroom as long as there is a justified reason for the learning objective." I agree with you that we should think through why we are adopting a whole or part of a particular designed curriculum and make adjustments as needed. I'm leaning toward a Charlotte Mason approach in the early years and an RC approach until my daughter is around 12. Then I will allow her to have more input in directing the type of education she wants to pursue based on her own temperament and goals. I like that Charlotte Mason focuses on the whole child and that RC focuses on focused learning habits. Thanks for putting out your perspective.