| Welcome to The Oregon's School of Unschooling Tomorrows Leaders, Leading Today. |
| Here at OSU, we encourage our children to explore, discover and experience every learning opportunity as a natural and joyfull experience |
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| Hello! Thank you for visiting our site. We are a new group of non-religious unschoolers and relaxed homeschoolers located in Forest Grove Oregon. We love to meet other home educators, so feel free to check out our message boards and introduce yourself. If you would like to get together and chat, check our calendar for upcoming events. We would love to meet you. Unschooling can be defined in many ways. But for us, it means Child-led learning. Letting our children show us when and what they want to learn, and providing all the material needed for their growing minds. Unschooling doesn't mean not learning - it means learning without the trappings of school. It's not unlearning or uneducating. Its only unschooling - it points out a contrast in approaches to learning. |
| PHOTOS - SEPT, 2004 Reptiles at OMSI - Sept. 2004 |
| If you would like to contact us for more info., Please email us at [email protected]. |
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| Think about how an adult learns something new, how you yourself do it; there is no reason why a child can't learn in the same way. You have an interest, let's say, in tying flies for fishing, or the Civil War, or in Chinchillas. What do you do? Research, for one. What kind? The library, perhaps. You find books on the subject. you find movies about the Civil War. You go to the zoo, or a pet shop or a state fair to see chinchillas and talk to people who raise them. You find a TV program about tying flies and how to cast, and you go to the lake and see people fishing, and talk to them. You realize you can't quite understand how to do it by reading, so you find someone who can show you. You want to have some fun interaction with other, so you join a Civil War reenactment society. Now, imagine you are in school, and you have to "study" tying flies, or raising chinchillas. You have no interest in these things at all; you are totally absorbed by the Civil War right now. It would take coercion (rewards/grades and punishments/pressure) to make you "learn" about flies and chinchillas, and as soon as that last final is done, you will forget it all and go back to that fascinating book on the Civil War. |
| "To me unschooling is as positive as unchaining, unbinding, unleashing, unfolding, unfurling, unlimiting... All mean freedom and growth and vast possiblilities to me." |
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