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Project-Led Learning - What is It? Junior High as it ought to be! In the past, age twelve was a special time in a child's life. It was the time when a child began to explore the work world of his or her heritage. The twelve-year-old was ready to learn the real work of adulthood, to be apprenticed to some trade, or to begin to shoulder real responsibilities. Project-led learning allows the home schooled junior high student to learn by doing rather than being chained to a desk for hours a day. Younger children usually love school and learning, but by age twelve, a child often becomes bored and tired of sitting at a desk seven hours a day, going back over the same subjects dressed in a new text book that he or she has been asked to focus on for some years now. It can be argued that of all the years a child spends in schooling, the least amount of real learning takes places in the 7th and 8th grades. It is as if a twelve-year-old child and a school desk were never meant to be together. How should a twelve-year-old learn? By doing things, by fixing things, by growing things, by raising things, by building things, by creating, by nurturing, by running and shouting, by doing things that add value to the world and are important to the people in his or her life. Project-led learning is an approach to the junior high years that explores the world through projects. It offers a different way to learn to twelve and thirteen-year-old students. It is a project that gives that age child the opportunity to explore the real world in interesting and active ways. The result will be a much greater involvement by the child in his or her own learning that will greatly reduce the need for supervision during the high school years, and therefore greatly reduce the cost of education to the home school parents. Project-led learning is a bridge from the structured elementary years to the character-driven high school years. It turns the junior high years from a time of boredom and frustration into a time of wonder and excitement. It is not a time of playing; much is still expected of the junior high student. Some children may find that this approach is not for them, but many will; and those that do will look back on their junior high years as the most significant in all their years of school. YGuide Academy is dedicated to helping parents who want a different kind of education for their children. We focus on both project-led learning at the junior high level and business-based learning at the high school level. If you need further information about project-led learning, contact us through http://www.YguideAcademy.com/ProjectLedLearning.html We would love to help you develop your project ideas into meaningful learning experiences. Help your child build his or her own business with Micro-Business for HighSchoolers, a nine month course that guides step-by-step in the creation of a real-world business, while learning a whole lot. This course could easily become a central part of your child's high school education. Check it out at http://www.YguideAcademy.com/MicroBusiness.html Copyright 2009 by YGuide Publishing, Inc.. Freely use without changes, including links. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Daniel_Yordy
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