Home schooling expert to visit

With over 20 years of teaching her own three (now adult) children herself at home and over 15 years writing for and speaking to home schooling audiences all over the USA as well as in Canada, the UK, Thailand and East Europe, Diana Waring is making her third trip to NZ during September.

Ms Waring majored in French, history and music at university. These strengths are evident in her inspiring world history curriculum materials which often use music to illustrate events and national moods.

Her rapid-fire seminars and workshops are renowned for being packed with many personal snippets of historical characters and memorable illustrations.

Her programme included a two-day conference in Christchurch. Still to come are a full day in Palmerston North on 15th September, followed by an evening presentation in Hastings on 16th September. Her final full-day seminar will be in Auckland on Saturday 19th September before flying out.

Ms Waring will deliver a number of talks she has developed over the years. One of her several signature talks is titled “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Middle Ages” for it helps the listeners make sense of this fascinating period.

Another is “Beyond Survival” in which she transparently describes her struggles and failures to create a school for her three children at home before she broke through the paradigm shift to the pure joy of a lifestyle characterised by one-to-one mentoring. This is what makes home education so routinely successful.

Ms Waring’s husband Bill and several other experienced NZ home educators will take other workshop electives on subjects such as avoiding burnout, time management and character training to give a very full programme.

More information is available from the Home Education Foundation, www.hef.org.nz