Great books from history and literature should be used in place of textbooks.
Children should spend plenty of time in nature and use natural materials in education.
I want to use curriculum similar to what is used in public or private schools.
Child-led learning is important.
Early elementary years should focus on exploring the world with no formal lessons.
The parent's most important job in education is to teach the child how to learn.
Short lessons with focused attention are better than big chunks of time.
Lessons that can be used with multiple ages and grades are best.
I prefer to purchase grade-level curriculum packages that are planned out for me.
Learning is more effective when the child is interested.
Discussions are a major part of learning.
Topical studies are a great way to learn.
Instruction should be language-based with little use of screens.
Incorporating many different subjects into one study is preferable.
Early childhood should emphasize creative play and formal learning should be avoided before age 7.
A child's passion for learning should drive their education.
Living books are a great tool for learning.
I desire my children to have a rigorous education.
Social responsibility and empathy are important in my children's education.
Learning ideas are more important than memorizing facts.
Living books, projects, and activities are preferable to textbooks, workbooks, and worksheets.
The parent's role is to facilitate the child's education and not to teach.
Parents should model a love for learning, a love for work, a curious nature, and read a lot.
Learning to write clearly and use elegant language is important.
Children will learn when they are ready.
Education should include practical activities like household chores or handcrafts.
Being able to transition into a public or private school classroom is important.
Education is the child's responsibility.
Latin and logic are important subjects.
Parents should study and read while the child studies and reads.
Self-expression through art, music, role-playing, and movement is an important part of education.
Children should have long periods of uninterrupted time for child-led study.
Avoiding screens for children who are elementary age or younger is important.
Having a teacher's guide is essential.
It is better to study a wide variety of subjects than to focus mainly on reading, writing, and math.
Our learning environment looks like a mini-classroom.
Learning how to learn is a priority.
Children should learn at their own pace.
Topical studies help children make connections between subjects.
Children should spend lots of time outside.
1) Montessori
2) Unschooling
3) Waldorf
🙂
Charlotte Mason 23( that’s what I’m mostly using..)so no surprise here
Classical Education 14
Montessori and Waldorf are a tie with 13….
1. Classical
2. Waldorf
3. Montessori
As a retired (25-year) home educator who put five in college with earned scholarships, and who began home education because the schools were dangerous and were not meeting our children’s needs, and who began before even HSLDA began (!) I answered this survey according to how I “did school” then, when resources were severely limited. We made do with whatever we could find and I wrote my own high school literature texts (LLAtL style) because I could not find any that I liked. This was before Internet, y’all, and I made good friends with librarians everywhere. That was our only choice. What few curriculum companies were available often refused to sell to home educators, or refused to sell answer keys or tests to us.
We’ve come a long way, babes! Ha!
Oh, and those categories I seemed to fit in, that I listed above? —I have no idea what those are! Ha! I’ve heard of Montessori, but in my reading about it, got lost right after they said not to give pickles to children. Mine used them for gummy chews when they were first teething. CanNOT help it! Ha!
But I say all this to say that although our children differed some from each other, they differed VASTLY from what is out there, now days. I cannot help it, but they really, truly, preferred a text book to a live demo, any day. I actually had to force them to do the 3 science experiments they each did during their lives. I have no idea how I got that kind of children but it was pretty easy for me. I handed them their books in September and said, “See ya’ in nine months!” We’d all laugh and they’d get their noses in those books immediately. I often found them lost in encyclopedias, too, trying to get more info crammed in. For spare time, one of mine counted all his pennies (about 500) and sorted them by mint and date, then made bar graphs and line graphs. For the fun of it.
I sometimes feel sort of odd in the current home schooling fads because my kids would have died on the vine without “book larnin'”, but actually I was doing exactly the same as each mom hopefully is doing, today—matching the approach to the child’s learning style.
This was interesting, not what I expected at al (I thought Montessori/CM/unit.)
It said our top 3 were:
Score for Unit Studies Education: 23
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 15
Score for Classical Education: 18
Unschooling 17, Montessorri 17
Charlotte Mason 9, Thomas Jefferson 9
Top 3: Unschooling 17, Montessori 17 and Charlote Mason & Thomas jefferson 9
I was surprised by some of my results:
Score for Montessori Education: 15
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 14
Score for Unit Studies Education: 11
Score for Unschooling: 11
But was NOT surprised by this one:
Score for Traditional Education: -12
My highest score was for Charlotte Mason Education at 19,
with quite a tie between 3 others:
Score for Unit Studies Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 12
Score for Classical Education: 12
Almost equal parts Montessori, Charlotte mason, and Unit studies. Negative 5 for classical, LOL!
Charlotte Mason 23
Unschooling 19
Montessori 18
The Unschooling was very surprising, Charlotte Mason is what I expected 🙂
Waldorf 20
Montessori 16
Charlotte Mason 16
My three major influences!
My top 3 were Charlotte Mason, Montessori and Unit Studies. This was a great quiz. The results didn’t shock me, but I enjoyed it!
Montessori, Charlotte Mason and Classical were my top 3.
Charlotte Mason Education: 23
Unit Studies Education: 14
Unschooling: 13
Our son has Sensory Processing Disorder so we use a miss mash of a variety of curriculum: Sonlight read-alouds and lap books as book reports for those. Life of Fred math. Dianne Craft reading. Reading Eggs and Math Seeds. Science4Us. I often change what we do if I find something that works better. Recently we changed our schedule to do “core” subjects just on M,W,F and other things lie science, cooking, art, and game days on T/Th. At the moment that is what’s working best for our son. Also, our schooling is very child directed.
Charlotte Mason, Montessori and Unschooling – tie!!
I would say that’s very true for me as is the highly negative score for Traditional Schooling and negative for Classical Education. 🙂
Score for Waldorf Education: 8
Score for Traditional Education: -18
Score for Unit Studies Education: 15
Score for Montessori Education: 21
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 7
Score for Unschooling: 21
Score for Classical Education: -6
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 21
Your Results:
Score for Waldorf Education: 15
Score for Traditional Education: -9
Score for Unit Studies Education: 19
Score for Montessori Education: 25
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 21
Score for Unschooling: 23
Score for Waldorf Education: 15
Score for Traditional Education: -9
Score for Unit Studies Education: 19
Score for Montessori Education: 25
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 21
Score for Unschooling: 23
Score for Classical Education: 1
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 15
Results are not a surprise at all. This quiz would have been so useful 10 years ago when I began HS. I and kiddos went through MUCH trial and error to be where we are at today!
Score for Montessori Education: 15
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 10
Score for Unschooling: 15
Score for Waldorf Education: 7
Score for Traditional Education: 9
Score for Unit Studies Education: 20
Score for Montessori Education: 17
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 17
Score for Unschooling: 4
Score for Classical Education: 7
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 23
I was a little surprised about my low Waldorf score as I love the approach. Maybe because I don’t agree with the no TV thing? I think screen time can be used if done correctly.
My top scores-
Montessori Education: 19
Unit Studies Education: 14
Charlotte Mason Education: 8
Waldorf Education: 7
#1- Unschooling: 15
#2- Waldorf Education: 13
#3- Charlotte Mason Education: 12
I would say this is very accurate.
Montessori- 14
Mason-10
Unit Studies-9
I’m planning to homeschool in the future, so I answered based on what I *think* I’ll do:
Score for Waldorf Education: 11
Score for Traditional Education: -19
Score for Unit Studies Education: 14
Score for Montessori Education: 23
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 19
Score for Unschooling: 25
Score for Classical Education: 8
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 19
I was unschooled from grades 7-9 and 11-12, and in regular education the rest of the time. Guess which kind of education I preferred?
The only ones that really fit for how I envision the way my schooling would go are unschooling and Montessori. I’d never heard of Thomas Jefferson Education or Charlotte Mason Education, and on looking them up, they don’t sound that appealing to me.
I had a few contradictory answers – I chose both ‘brief learning sessions’ and ‘long, in depth learning sessions’. The reason is that I’ll chose which I do based on how my kid feels. I preferred long in depth study, but my kid might not turn out the same as me.
Unschooling
Charlotte Mason
Waldorf
Score for Waldorf Education: 16
Score for Traditional Education: -11
Score for Unit Studies Education: 9
Score for Montessori Education: 16
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 13
Score for Unschooling: 21
Score for Classical Education: 6
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 21
1. Unit Study (23)
2. Charlotte Mason (23)
3. Unschooling (17)
Very interesting and informative! Top 3: Montessori, Charlotte Mason, unschooling.
Montessori = 9
Unit Studies = 9
Classical = 8
This was a great quiz and very accurate!
Funny we were just talking about Unit Studies or a version of…
Unit Studies Education: 25
Montessori Education: 18
Thomas Jefferson Education: 18
Unschooling: 18
Classical Education: 18
Charlotte Mason Education: 18
Waldorf Education: 15
Traditional Education: -14
We do what works for us;
Score for Unit Studies Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 14
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 12
Score for Unschooling: 15
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 19
Top 3: Charlotte Mason, Motessori, and Unschooling
Lowest: Traditional School
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
Score for Traditional Education: -9
Score for Unit Studies Education: 15
Score for Montessori Education: 16
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 13
Score for Unschooling: 15
Score for Classical Education: 3
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 19
Charlotte Mason – Unit Studies and Montessori
Score for Montessori Education: 13
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 12
Score for Unschooling: 14
Score for Waldorf Education: 15
Score for Traditional Education: -20
Score for Unit Studies Education: 10
Score for Montessori Education: 20
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 12
Score for Unschooling: 25
Score for Classical Education: 11
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 13
We mostly just go with the flow and spend lots of time together. Getting more into going out and learning in the community.. Now that my youngest is not a screaming infant anymore!
Score for Waldorf Education: 1
Score for Traditional Education: 3
Score for Unit Studies Education: 21
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 8
Score for Unschooling: 14
Score for Classical Education: 5
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 23
This was helpful. I’ve taken it numerous times – trying to “trick the test” if you will, but I keep seeing unschooling, Charlotte Mason and Montessori at the top. It wasn’t until I read the “quiz feedback post, however, that I understood some of the styles better, which measurably clarified my answers. Now the Montessori-Charlotte Mason-Unschooling trinity is clearer and well-defined.
Score for Waldorf Education: 2
Score for Traditional Education: -23
Score for Unit Studies Education: 2
Score for Montessori Education: 23
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 10
Score for Unschooling: 20
Score for Classical Education: 9
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 21
Score for Waldorf Education: 7
Score for Traditional Education: -8
Score for Unit Studies Education: 17
Score for Montessori Education: 16
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 5
Score for Unschooling: 14
Score for Classical Education: 8
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 19
Score for Unit Studies Education: 19
Score for Montessori Education: 21
Score for Unschooling: 21
Our top three were: Charlotte Mason, Unschooling, and a tie for Unit Studies and Montessori with a big -18 for traditional…. that sounds about right…lol A friend once described us as “Relaxed, child-inspired, Christian, eclectic homeschooler with an emphasis on living books.” Here is a post with our curriculum choices for this year (9th grade): http://stephanie-thejourney.blogspot.com/2015/08/our-eclectic-9th-grade-homeschool.html
Here are the rest of my scores:
Score for Waldorf Education: -1
Score for Traditional Education: -18
Score for Unit Studies Education: 9
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Unschooling: 14
Score for Classical Education: 8
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 18
Score for Montessori Education: 17
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 16
Score for Unschooling: 16
top three :
Charlotte Mason Education- 17
Unit Studies Education – 12
Classical Education -9
I pick and choose what we will study, by subject, not grade level.
Unit Studies Education:16
Montessori Education: 17
Charlotte Mason: 16
so perhaps this is why I have such difficulty deciding on things and feel like my mind is all over the place. Because it is. Other scores were close too, except Traditional of course at -11. The article that led my to this quiz was helpful though in reminding me to let go and stop stressing and overthinking it so much and just do things, crafts, read, trips to the library…whatever. They will learn more that way then they will waiting for me to figure out what im doing or try to get some curriculum to work or find the perfect things. I wont find the perfect thing because it isnt out there, and I see why now. I do plan to implement more unit studies, I have always known they were my style but I think I felt intimidated because I feel like I dont have enough knowledge to do them.
Classical, Unschooling, Thomas Jefferson
We do Classical Conversations with our 10 year old son.
Top 3:
Thomas Jefferson Education
Unit Studies
Then the third highest was tied with 3;
Montessori, Unschooling and Charlotte Mason
I’ve been homeschooling for 11 years now and those methods are really the best for us. It keeps things interesting and avoids burnout for all of us. Still I am not immune to worry and I do get off track and forget my philosophy and borrow the traditional approach from time to time until I want to pull my hair out and give up. Don’t follow my example! Haha! Enjoy and don’t sweat the small stuff, and most of it is small stuff.
Hey, I got a lower traditional education score than most people: -23! And I used to be a teacher (maybe that’s why?)…
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
Score for Traditional Education: 0
Score for Unit Studies Education: 13
Score for Montessori Education: 15
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 10
Score for Unschooling: 4
Score for Classical Education: 19
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 3
My results were
Your Results:
Score for Waldorf Education: 12
Score for Traditional Education: -15
Score for Unit Studies Education: 25
Score for Montessori Education: 17
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 25
Score for Unschooling: 20
Score for Classical Education: 10
Score for Charlotte Mason Education: 25