Creating a Cooperative Learning Center: An Idea-Book for Homeschooling Families

By Katharine Houk

Creating a Cooperative Learning Center is a practical, realistic, yet inspirational guide for homeschoolers desiring a gathering place designed specifically to enhance the home education experience.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963609637
• ISBN13: 9780963609632
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Longview Publishing
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable

This book is full of ideas and encouragement. I really appreciated that this book included forms and letters used by The Alternative Learning Center--not only does that give a good guideline, but it creates the opportunity to evaluate once again what you are either considering or trying to do. Even if you aren't looking to create some kind of center, but just want to get together with friends in a more organized way, this book will help. There are so many good ideas and helpful nuggets here.

What a find! A practical guide to cooperative homeschooling!

Homeschooling naturally leads many families to organize social gatherings, learning clubs, study circles, field trips, art classes, sports, and other shared activities.But if your group doubles or triples in size, and the phone rings off the hook, what will you do then? Wouldn't it be great to set up a cooperative learning center in the community where members can share in the learning adventure together?Katharine Houk's book presents a successful model that can be duplicated in other communities. Katharine's group founded their cooperative learning center years ago and it remains successful to this day. This book tells the story of how they did it, including some of the problems and solutions. Steps from the very beginnings of the group are discussed, leading you down the path toward creating your group's cooperative learning center.The book includes philosophies, copies of bylaws, samples of registration materials, fees, examples of course offerings, surveys, rules, and samples of the forms they used. As a homeschooling parent who participated in several cooperative learning centers over the years, centers that got started well but didn't last, I can recommend this book whole-heartedly. This book has the nuts and bolts you need to launch a successful cooperative learning center.Where was this book back when I needed it?