After 20 years of being a contact and support person
Beverley no longer takes phone call or email inquiries.
Please join one of her yahoo groups (see below) if you want
to know more about homeschooling or have a question.

Save time and simplify your homeschooling life...
Learn from experienced homeschoolers how to write your own curriculum.
It really is that easy!

Back in print for a limited time only! Beverley's manual on how to write your own homeschool curriculum! $25

Getting Started with
Home Schooling:
Practical Consideration

Thank you for visiting!

Understanding Educational Jargon

© Beverley Paine

Yesterday I read part of the Level 1 Victorian Essential Learning Standards, a .pdf document that I had downloaded a couple of years ago. I've always made a point of reading school curricula – it helps to know what schools are thinking about how learning happens. I'm not overly impressed by this document, but I was heartened to see the glossary – always a good idea in any document of
this nature. As a fun exercise I went through the glossary and translated the jargon.

Jargon is all around us. The jargon we are most exposed to and probably notice the least is the jargon of advertising. It is always a interesting and
awareness-raising exercise to identify and translate advertising jargon with children, especially during the ad breaks while watching television. Analysing the words used in magazine or newspaper advertising, and then looking for these in the news items, is another way to see how our thoughts, actions and beliefs are cleverly manipulated by the media.

• product: output of human activity in form of an artefact
• technological product: artefact created to meet an identified need or want
• sensory perception: seeing, hearing, feeling, touching, smelling...
  that is, experiencing life via the senses
• technological process/technique: human activity (eg cutting, digging, shaping, usually carried out using tools)
• skills, techniques and processes: ways and methods of using and
  handling just about anything
• manipulate: handle
• realise ideas/goals/effects/outcomes: achieve
• outcome: result, usually expressed as a desired result (goal)
• objective: what we hope to achieve
• range of processes: use various methods
• document: write, tape, film, take photos, etc what happened
• multimedia resources: anything that includes words, images and sound; eg DVDs, internet, computer programs
• media: can be anything one uses to create something as well as the way information is conveyed to others. Arts media - paper, canvas, paints, body (eg dance), clay, etc. Information media - books, television, internet, newspapers, etc.
• investigations: opportunity to think up and ask questions and then
  work out ways to answer them
• materials: anything that can be used to make into something else
• information product: something that tells/shows others what you know
  using computerised technology
• graphic/visual organiser: a way of showing on paper how different
  parts relate to each other or link together - map, flowchart, graph,
  time-line, etc.
• design brief: a statement that tells why, how, where, when and just
  about anything else that is necessary to help solve a problem.
• design: a map that shows how we transform ideas into action and
  results/products.

After 20 years of being a contact and support person Beverley no longer takes phone call or email inquiries. Please join one of her yahoo groups if you want to know more about homeschooling or have a question.

SEARCH this site:

If you like what you read here, you can order Beverley's books!

	Getting Started with Homeschooling - how to write your own learning programs
	Beverley's E-books
	Learning Without School - how 30 families homeschool
	The Homeschooling Trail - Christian unschooling life
	Learning in the Absence of Education - how we did it
	Practical Homeschooling Booklet Series - your questions answered!
	Educational Games Booklet Series - make learning fun!
	Practical Homeschooling Language Development Series
	Natural Learning Series
	Homeschool Diaries
	Ready to use Portfolios / Report Cards
	Fridge Magnets - handy reminders!
	Homeschool DVDs
	Sample Learning Programs
	Stock Clearance

HOW TO ORDER

Be the first to find out about new books, ebooks and booklets by Beverley!

Interested in homeschooling,
but still not sure? Read
'All You Need Is...'

Looking for educational resources?
Home Education Directory

Questions about homeschooling?
Browse the Homeschool Australia Article Library, or join our
Frequently Asked Questions
online support group.

Wondering what to teach? See
Australian Homeschool Curriciulum

What's new on Homeschool Australia? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

Children Learning Naturally
Online Support Group

Travelling and homeschooling?
Keep in touch with
Aussie Homeschool Campers!

Unschool~Kidz!

Home education is a legal alternative to school education in Australia.
State governments are responsible
for regulating home education.
Different states have different
requirements, however homeschooling
families are able to develop curriculum
and learning programs to suit the
individual needs of their children.
For more information:
Home Education Association

Thank you for your generous
donation to Homeschool Australia.

Text & Images on this site
Copyright © 1999-2008
All rights reserved

Terms and Conditions of Use