This page gives you a list of some key places within our website where you can find tips for learning about a variety of learning styles, family dynamics, and homeschooling styles! 🙂
- Our Twist (general overview of the “Peppermint Stick” educational style/approach) Note: There are links to subject-specific points from that page for our educational approach, for example to reading, math, writing, science, etc.)
- Learning Styles (describes characteristics of hands-on/visual, written, auditory learners, and the “exceptional student” who is like “a square peg in a round hole”.)
- About Teaching with “Special Needs” (gives a bit of background as to why learning styles and family dynamics might be extra important to learn about and figure out)
- Homeschool Styles and Family Dynamics (thoughts about why one style might be a better fit for one family but perhaps not a good fit for a different family)
- A Comparison with Other Styles (- a page with links for charts comparing the “Peppermint Stick” style with other common educational styles/approaches such as Charlotte Mason, Unschooling, Traditional, etc.)
- Minimalist Homeschooling (and How to “Prune”) (a post about this approach which has similarities to our own approach in a number of ways.)
- Canadian Min. of Ed. Standards and PSLC’s Style (includes a bit about avoiding a “basic just 3 R’s” style and also being intentional about learning about one’s own country/context of where one lives more than another place.)
- Outdoor School in the Snow (especially for us Canadians to think about 🙂 )
- Balance is Needed! (avoiding extremes in how we homeschool)
- Planning Days with Margin and Time (includes a bit about “project-based” learning)
- Why Homeschool? (a list of common and perhaps uncommon reasons)