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Hi Gals,
Anyone know much about the Principle Approach? It intriques me, but sounds like a lot of work upfront. I don’t want to change any of my CM approach, so am wondering how difficult this would be to add on to it. Any thoughts/experience? Thanks a bunch:) Blessings, Gina
The Principle Approach has been called “reflective teaching and learning.” It is America’s historic method of Biblical reasoning which places the Truths (or principles) of God’s Word at the heart of education. Each subject is predicated upon God’s Biblical principles and students are taught to think and reason from principles and leading ideas using The Notebook Method to Research, Reason, Relate and Record.
As in the Noah Plan? I got the K and 1st curr. a while back and did my best to implement it.
It SOUNDS great…and probably is IF you have a ton of time to get educated–or maybe if you are just bent that way.
With my math background and with my ease around all things academic (upper levels), I never expeceted to feel that I needed to go back to graduate school to be capable of teaching K.
Example from K wk 1 Bible:
Biblical Principle: The Bible is God’s inspired written Word. 2 Tim 3:16
Leading Idea: The Bible is God’s message to us for instruction and direction. It equips us to live for Him.
Now Some from that Lesson for KINDERGARTEN:
Guide the student to the Biblical Principle from the Leading Idea by reading aloud 2 Tim 3:16.
Discuss the definition and origin of the Bible.
Give a breif history of the English Bible.
I actually didn’t know all of the Bible history off the top of my head, so I went online and printed it off (a ton of pages)…and I was supposed to digest that–make it my own and speak about it to a child in K.
or history wk1 k
Biblical Principle: Christian Self-Government
Leading Idea: Mandkind must be governed. Romans 13:1-3
Part of Lesson:
Guide the student to the Biblical Principle from the Leading Idea.
Read aloud and paraphrase for the student Romans 13:1-3 and discuss the purpose and need for government….
Define and discuss the purpose of a constitution….
Define Christian self-government….
Much lecturing (discussion) with student –but my student just looked at me blankly and said ok mama…can I do something now, TONS of prep. I personally found it to be high aspirations…and wonderful concepts and ideas and it did cause me to think…sometimes still does…as I read some of their books for fun for ME.
GREAT resources. Their core books are awesome and very high quality…and will be very useful throughout our homeschooling years…particularly in regard to providential history
but I couldn’t translate the instruction down to k…
maybe it was me…i certainly felt stupid.
if this kind of thing lights your fire…go for it…I truly would hope for your success…i didn’t disagree w/ any of it…it just seemed so beyond me.
if you need k or first…let me know…i also have their cuur. guides by subject…willing to sell!
God Bless you on the journey,
jo
You don’t have to use the Noah Plan to use the Principle Approach.
It is alot easier– IMHO to just 4R things on your own as you are studying it.
R- Research-(read)
R- Reason
R- Relate(relate it to your life)
R- Record ( narrate, written narration, draw , ect)
We do this as we read the bible everyday — you can do this and apply it to any subject.
This is a very abbreviated example– there are many websites and blogs that explain it better than I
Lisa Hodgens website –meandmyhouse is a great one for bringing the PA down to an attainable level.
The best way to PA a subject is— for example— you are reading about education.
You look up the word in the 1828 Websters Dictionary.
Write down the definition. Then look up any word in the definition that are questionable, write them down.
Then using your concordance — look up words — then read applicable scripture references, then read or write them down .
Then deduce how they affect or apply to you and your life . Then do the final R — record your thoughts or narrate.
This is very simplified— maybe another PAer could answer this better than I
It is a very rich and exciting way to study Gods word.
There is a yahoo group– biblical principles– that is a great way to find out more and incorporate it into your CM education.
HTH
Mic
Sounds like it would be better suited to an older student working independantly. My boys would be so bored looking up all those words in the dictionary. I don’t think it would appeal to a hands-on learner. Still, the over-all appraoch is interesting.
This approach can give you a lot of freedom. I’ve reading Wisdom’s Way of Learning and one of the 4 books outlines the notebook method and it looks awesome because it relates to real life! Book 1 is an overview and Book 2 goes into the notebooks.
Thanks for all the replies! I was getting a bit stressed…you know, you see something that sounds great but seems overwhelming to implement on top of all we’re already doing!!! But don’t want to ‘miss’ valuable lessons. Hubby got me back on track last night, phew:) But I do hope to incorporate some principles of this.
Jo, thanks for sharing your experience. I was afraid of some of that! My kids are older, but it does sound like a LOT of work for mom….and I’m just not sure worth the full jump in with all the other study we do.
Mic, thanks for simplifying! I hope to add something like this.
4myboys, yeah…we already do vocabulary look-up with our writing program…our most intense subject. Not sure if I want to do it for everything, though does sound intriguing!!
Homeschool Scrapper, thanks for sharing the link…the book sounds interesting and simplifying.
Thanks again for all the responses and food for thought:) Blessings, Gina
Jo – I’ll buy those curriculum guides off of you and any other resources you might have! I’m the one who got Gina asking those questions!!! Sorry, Gina!
I’ve decided to embark on this journey, so I’ve begun the Self-Directed Study. Really helpful in envisioning how to implement 4-ring, notebooking, etc. It IS very freeing, and will allow us all to learn together! I would highly recommend educating youself before trying to implement the Approach. It’s not that big a commitment, 9 lessons, about a week each. You don’t need to do the credit course to get the full scope of the program. I’m going to pass it up, unless the Lord puts it on my heart to get my teaching credentials!!!!!!!
Hope to hear from you soon, Jo. Feel free to pm me…..
Julee
Julee,
No apologies needed:) I’m thankful for the introduction to it and plan to implement some aspects of looking at our reading more critically, whether this or Teaching the Classics….need to do more research! Sorry, hadn’t thought to mention Jo’s materials….thought they were too young for your kids. Blessings:) Gina
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