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SCAMPER: Reframing How We Use Curriculum
To help us get out of the usual way of thinking about a problem, we can use the mnemonic SCAMPER to find new solutions.
- What can you Substitute?
- What can you Combine, such as drama and film with science and space travel?
- What can you Adapt to a higher level?
- What can you Modify? Instead of just learning the metric system, add its history, its use worldwide, its failure.
- What can you Put to another use?
- What can you Eliminate? Children may have learned it already or will learn it later along with something else.
- What can you Reverse? E.g., taxation before algebra.
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Reframing Our Ideas of Giftedness
We can easily fall into the trap of thinking that our children's intelligence means they should be prodigies, that they should be ahead in everything, and if they're not, we are failing them.
They will be ahead many times, but we don't want them to feel that their e...
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Use Creative Thinking Techniques
Some specific techniques have rules that can make us more creative (not less).
Useful creative thinking approaches are:
- Brainstorming. Focus on quantity rather than quality, withhold criticism and judgment, welcome strange ideas, and combine and ...
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The unusually gifted and creative child
Often, the reason for homeschooling gifted children is that they fail to thrive in an age-based, one-size-fits all classroom.
When we bring our children home to learn, we have an opportunity to create a learning environment that is truly tailored to them. ...
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Reframing Our Ideas of Education
Creative thinking is the ability to reframe a problem to see different perspectives and opportunities. When you homeschool, it pays to think about your current attitudes and beliefs about education with an eye to look for different perspectives.
For example:
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Consider Your Big Picture
As homeschoolers, we can get stuck in the day-to-day details of schedules, curriculum, sports and activities, causing us to get into the habit of thinking that this is all homeschooling is about.
Once in a while, it's good to take a step back, think about our homeschooling vision st...
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How creative thinking can be used
... to add life to your Homeschooling big-picture.
Answer the following questions on paper.
- What would my perfect homeschooling be?
- What effect would this have on me, my kids, my family, and friends?
- How would I home...
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Rethink Motivation
If you wish your children were more motivated, consider some possible questions:
- Functional fixedness - being stuck using a tool in a single or habitual way. Are there examples of "functional fixedness" in education that homeschooling allows us to overcome? (e.g. g...
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Address Perfectionism
For gifted people, unhealthy perfectionism can be a very serious and painful issue.
Perfectionists can be listed in five categories:
- Academic Achievers: Must achieve 110%
- Risk Evaders
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