what is brave writer lifestyle lesson plan

No script for exciting children about art. If reading about Charlotte Mason’s advocacy for art appreciation has piqued your interest in art, dive in. I like to say that we should live our passionate curiosities in front of our kids. This lifestyle of learning starts with you, a learner-not you, the teacher. Your enjoyment of the books you read aloud, your passion to track down information about a historical fact, your curiosity about nature and art create an appetite for learning in your home.

What you can do and do almost effortlessly, though, is model learning.

You don’t consult a set of criteria delivered to you by the board of education and figure out how to squeeze that into your year. You won’t likely stand in front of a dry erase board, poised to lecture your four kids. “Teaching” in its school sense is counterproductive to your goals. In homeschool, we are in an entirely different environment from school. Of course there are those who choose to teach because they’ve seen teaching modeled as an adult career for 12+ years of their lives, and they can envision themselves in that role in a way they can’t imagine themselves into any other adult field. Many choose to teach because once proficient in their favorite subject, they enjoy passing that information on to the next generation. Some choose to teach because they love lesson-planning and creating a classroom environment.

Some choose to teach because they love children. We are aware of adults who choose teaching as careers. Being a “teacher” is less interesting to me than participating in the learning process in subjects I care about. But without a specific subject area, teaching in and of itself doesn’t interest me. I might choose to teach (for instance, I love teaching theology at Xavier University, I love teaching writing to my students at Brave Writer, and I loved teaching acting to the homeschool co-op students). As a career goal, wanting to be a “teacher” is not one I would choose.

What is brave writer lifestyle lesson plan