Tasmanian Home Education Advisory Council
What is Home Education?
Home education occurs when parents choose to educate their children from a home base. This choice is the outcome of a conviction that home based education will better meet the child's needs.
Before deciding to home educate there are a number of important issues to explore. It might be helpful to consider the following:
- Introductory workshops as offered by the Council
- Home education contacts and networks
- Discussions with your local school
- Home education resources
An information kit is available .....
THEAC Council
The Tasmanian Home Education Advisory Council assists the Minister for Education by:
- advising on effective support for home educators
- advising on policy issues for home education
- recording notification of home education
- being responsible for monitoring individual home education programs
- providing a mechanism to uphold the integrity of home education and to prevent abuses of this option
- provide a reference point for queries, respond to community concerns, and maintain liaison with other agencies about home education ....
Latest News...
2008 Australian Museum Eureka Schools Prizes Home educated students are eligible to enter.
- Action Against Climate Change – a brand new prize for year 7-10 students
- Sleek Geeks Science Prize - Secondary School
- Sleek Geeks Science Prize - Primary School – this is a new section of the popular Sleek Geeks prize enabling participation by primary students/classes
Entries close 2 May 2008. For further information on the prizes and how to enter, go to australianmuseum.net.au/eureka or email eureka@austmus.gov.au. And remember - the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes People’s Choice Award will again in July/August be inviting students (and others!) to vote online for their favourite scientist. Further details, Kristin on 02 9320 6483.
Try a Trade Thurs. May 22nd 2008 Workskills Australia Try'aTrade event @ Hobart Showgrounds for Year 9 students.(app.2 hours). Each child to pick max.3 trades or skills.(app.30 mins/trade). Trades include Motor Mechanics, Horticulture, Fitting Machining, Electrical, Hairdressing, Cookery, Baking, Painting & Decorating, Beauty Therapy, Carpentry & Joinery, Bricklaying, Plumbing. Each booth includes hands on skills, pathways to the trade, vocational education required. Interested HE people contact Aaron at SCOPE Ph.6245 7818
National Youth Week begins this Saturday 5 th April and ends Sunday 13 th April. There are over 100 events happening in Tasmania during the week. Go to http://www.youthweek.com/events/default.aspx , click on Tasmania
to see what ’ s happening in your area and get involved ! Anita Doig, Senior Project Coordinator, Office of Children and Youth Affairs.
YOUTH OFF THE STREETS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 2008 nominations close May 9th. GO TO www.youthoffthestreets.com.au to download the nomination form.
From Scope - Local Community Partnerships calendar [subject to change] Contact Aaron at SCOPE Ph.6245 7818.
11 - 12 April Careers EXPO – Derwent Entertainment Centre – Public Event - Community
May/June Mentoring Program for YP/NAYSS students - MacDonalds project
May/June ASP – Youth Enterprise Project - Business Enterprise
May ASP Media students (school TBA), Community Radio and Rosny College
2 - 7 June National Careers Week.
Step to the Future Foundation Youth Forum for children in years 9-12 Friday May 9th, 2008 at the Door of Hope, S Launceston. Designed to present a range of speakers from various fields such as business, sports, politics, and education, and young people who are making a difference, sharing their personal experiences on how they have achieved their dreams. Details from Diane Allan 0412 466 841 or dallan@steptothefuture.com.
Resources
The Launceston Library is offering a selection of junior non-fiction series reference books at very reasonable prices. All are in exellent condition. [eg *The Marshall Cavendish International Wildlife Encyclopaedia vol 1-25, published 1991 $20; *Australian Knowledge, 4 volumes Australia's Great Scientists, Inventors and Inventions, Great Australian writers and Great Australian painters, published 2000 $1 each and lots more.] If any home educators are interested, they are welcome to contact Jenny Moore at the Library. Ph 6336 2639. [entered 12 Feb 2008]
Sundry resources for home educators:
Through this resource list we hope to provide you with information that may
interest your family. We stress that this material does not reflect Council
opinions nor does it necessarily have our endorsement - it is meant as an avenue
to access what is available...
Sundry programme resources for home education:
Home educators use a wide range of curricula and teaching approaches. Some choose
to use commercially available 'packages' or program outlines, others select from
school programs and some devise their own curriculum, using an eclectic selection
of texts workbooks, multi media...
