Explore our list of useful links below.
Topics and items of interest from our Zoom calls
- Book – Equipped For Reading Success by David Kilpatrick
- Reading Horizons https://www.readinghorizons.com/
- Book – The Explosive Child by Ross Greene
- https://readaloudrevival.com/
- https://wordsworthlearning.com/
- https://www.simplypsychology.org/multiple-intelligences.html
- http://shinewithunschooling.com/i-was-his-scribe
- Book – Overcoming Dyslexia Sally Shaywitz
- https://homeschoolingwithdyslexia.com
Honey I’m homeschooling the kids Podcast – interview with Dr Gina Riley
Gina Riley, Ph.D. is an educational psychologist, Clinical Professor and also unschooled her own child.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/honey-im-homeschooling-the-kids/id1272423047?i=1000510242302
Howard Gardiner https://www.howardgardner.com
Dewey‘s Philosophy on education written in 1897
My Pedagogical Creed by Dewey 1897
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey/
Books
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gabor Maté and Gordon Neufeld
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World …
by Elaine Aron
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids by Dr. Laura Markham
Online Courses (some free)
Alison https://alison.com/
Udemy https://www.udemy.com/
Future Learn https://www.futurelearn.com
Outschool outschool.com
Khan Academy khanacademy.org
Educational Resources
Outline of the Irish curriculum https://www.curriculumonline.ie/Home/
Scoilnet is the Department of Education and Skills (DES) official portal for Irish education resources www.scoilnet.ie/
History of the world in 100 objects
Life of Fred, Maths https://www.lifeoffred.uniquemath.com/
Scribblenauts online game https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wb.goog.scribblenauts3&hl=en&gl=US
Irish Support Organisations
Irish Second Level Students Union https://www.issu.ie
National Parents Council https://www.npc.ie
Education Otherwise is a UK-based membership organisation which provides support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, and for those who wish to uphold the freedom of families to take proper responsibility for the education of their children.
Schooldays.ie is Ireland’s online resource for parents and teachers.
HEdNI Home Education in Northern Ireland
Home Education Advisory Service is a UK-based national home education charity.
Alternative Learning advocates alternative learning concepts and environments in which the interests and choices of children are recognised as crucial to real learning. They are a worldwide network of Natural Learners, unschoolers, and support groups, linked together by map.
John Holt’s Growing Without Schooling is the radical end of the HE spectrum. The site gives access to their G.W.S. Newsletter – and more.
Homeschool Central is a US website with plenty of resources links.
Asociación para la Libre Educatión (A.L.E.) (A.L.E.) is a Spanish network for HE families.
Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit Network for Freedom in Education, Germany
www.bildungzuhause.ch Home Education Switzerland