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...
Full Day Homeschool Training Course TASMANIA 2009
Designed to equip both new and experienced homeschooling parents, this practical course will answer many of the specific challenges we face :
What is the easiest way to learn to read? Learn times tables?
Keep records? Avoid stress?
Motivate my highschooler? Choose good curriculum?
And dozens more issues !
Open to ANY Tasmanian homeschoolers.
Request full details, including costs, from Sue Rumsley at
Email: rumsley1@activ8.net.au or phone (03) 6254 6191
One Day Workshop and Information Sessions for Parents/Carers of School Aged Students on the Autism Spectrum
Workshop - 20th November, 2008 9am-4.30pm [registration from 8.15am]
Information Session - 21st November, 2008
Venue: Tas Cricket Assoc, Bellerive Oval, Derwent Street, Bellerive.
Registration: www.autismtraining.com.au
Additional info: 1300 881 971
Additional workshops/information sessions:
Launceston 19-20 March 2009
Burnie 6-7 April 2009
Hobart 18-19 May, 2009
Australian Maritime College - Invitation to visit on January 19, 2009. Activities will include tours of our world-class teaching and research facilities,
a trip on an AMC vessel to experience our underwater camera technology, and
workshops with teaching staff and industry stakeholders.
Drinks onboard a cruise ship on the Tamar River will finish the day’s activities. To register your interest or to find out more, please contact Sam Cawthorn from
National Joblink on (03) 63322991 or email sam.cawthorn@njl.org.au.
The School of Human Life Sciences, Utas (Northern Campus) are holding a special “Health Science Taster Day” for Grade 9s and 10s on Tuesday 2 December 2008.
This interactive day is being held to provide students who are interested in studying the health sciences an opportunity to find out more about courses offered by the School of Human Life Sciences, and subsequent career paths.
Workshops will be offered in the areas of Biomedical Science, Health/Nutrition, Exercise Science, Medical Imaging, Cell Biology and Environmental Health.
Science Co-ordinators/Career Advisers within Secondary Schools have been sent an application package which should arrive Monday 20 October 2008.
Interested Grade 9 and 10 science students are invited to fill out the application form indicating four choices of workshops and send in by Monday 17 November 2008 to:
Sue Musgrave, School of Human Life Sciences, University of Tasmania, Locked Bag 1320, Launceston 7250 or; Fax No. 63 24 3995.
(As numbers are limited preference is given to grade 10 students).
The International Mathematics Tournament of Towns
Launceston Church Grammar School is coordinating and hosting an entry on behalf of our City Launceston, in the junior division of The International Tournament of Towns in 2008/2009. The junior division is for Grades 8 to 10 although Grade 7 students may enter. The Tournament of Towns occurs in two stages. Stage one is in November/December and stage two is in May.
In each stage, participants will sit two papers one week apart. The first paper is an “O” level paper and the second is an “A” level paper. Students may attempt one or both papers. When attempting the papers students may not use calculators.
This year the “O” level paper is on Friday 28th of November and participants have 4 hours to complete the paper (beginning at 9:00am and concluding at 1:00pm). The “A” level paper is on Friday 5th of December and participants have 5 hours to complete the paper (beginning at 9:00am and concluding at 2:00pm).
The Launceston score is the average of the scores of the top five students, and it would be wonderful if those students also represented a variety of out City’s schools.
All students who participate will receive a certificate from the Australian Mathematics Trust. Further information on The International Mathematics Tournament of Towns is available at www.amt.edu.au/imtot.html. Sample problems are available at www.amt.edu.au/imtotpro.html. If you have any questions feel free to contact Jim Fisher by email: jfisher@lcgs.tas.edu.au or by phone on 6336 6048.
Resources
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...
