Product Description
This video should answer ALL your questions about Home Schooling. For example:
Why do parents invest time and resources to do what the government does for nothing? Is Home Schooling legal? What about kids' socialization? Can uncertified parents teach? Will colleges and universities accept Home Schoolers? Why do Home Schools exceed the accomplishements of public schools? How can others get into the act? ... locate materials? ... find help?
We all need the right amount of time to learn something. Some need more than others. Some can do it in less. Classroom teachers can't deal with this. Students given the right "Time for Learning" do it better.
Home Schooling 101 tells the story with examples, evidence, testimonials and hard facts. It deals effectively with the major myths that have grown up around this movement.
The second half of the video follows a three-child family through 12 years of alternative learning; astounding evidence of successful accomplishment.
A primer for parents, educators, politicians and the media. Meet the Home School Pioneers and see why they are winning.
DIRECTOR Monte Ussery, EdD, has produced, written, directed and/or edited over 300 non-theatrical motion pictures, some of which won national awards for excellence. He is a graduate of the UCLA Theater Arts program. Monte says he was priviledged to teach school three years before finding employment in the film industry. With a Doctorate in educational technology, he was exposed to training methods used by government agencies and large corporations; methods which produced a higher level of performance than that produced by classic teaching methods. These are the same techniques recommended by the Home Schooling Gurus. Publicizing this movement became a crusade for Dr. Ussery, and has culminated in this introductory video treatment of a national sub-culture.
Includes Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore, Dr. Harold Wengert and Sycamore Tree's Sandy Gogel. Susan Pargman provides interview continuity, and Narrator Al Gundby ties it all together. Other players speak through sound bites to present the case for and against schooling at home.
The format has been compared to a 60 minutes double feature.
by Luanne Shackelford
