Has anyone used Verticy Learning?

[wildeyed]

http://www.verticylearning.org/

It is an online homeschool/enrichment program that specifically targets language based learning issues and offers some individualized student/teacher support. It is associated with Calvert. I homeschooled my gifted/dyslexic/dysgraphic DS7 the year before last, with very mixed results. He went to a charter school this year, which has been ok, but we are beginning to see behavior issues and he has lost significant academic ground. So we are considering homeschool again for next year, but I need more support than I had on the first go. This program could be the answer for us if it is any good.

[Maat]

1. I have not heard of it.

That having been said, I'm here to support you. I've homeschooled Beloved Daughter through fourth, fifth, sixth, and soon, seventh grades. I plan on continuing through high school. Technically, we go through a charter school, and meet monthly a with fully-credentialed public school teacher.

[wildeyed]

2. Thanks Maat.

We do not have the homeschool charter option available in my state, so I am pretty much on my own. Because my son's abilities are all over the place, it has always been hard to pick curriculums, plus I am back at work part time now, so I will have less time to lesson plan. I am hoping for an all-in-one boxed curriculum for my out -of-the-box son!

[Maat]

3. Hang in there.

I'm not over at DU much anymore. I'll PM you with my email so that you can keep in touch for support.

[mzteris]

4. don't do a "boxed" curriculum -

if he's' all over the place it just won't work very well.

There are other options - especially at his young age - don't worry about "teaching" so much as letting him love learning. Whatever he's interested in - go with it. Look at =- oh frig - what's the phrase - something like "whole subject". Damn senior moment.

ok - it's like when my kid was BORED with everything except Ancient China - so we studied Ancient China. In doing so, we did reading and research and art and social studies and history and strategy and logic and even math (converting li (chinese measure) to miles and calculating how much is would cost to build the Great Wall today considering that if it took X number of workers making #yuen with one superivisor for every some many workers making #+yuen . . . and there were xxxxxxxx workers = and a yuen was equal to so much dollars..... He was 8, I think. Took a while but he did it. Oh and we studied environmentalism - Pandas are good for that. Feudalism and other forms of government. Technology - inventions. Science. Did you know that China had most of the world's great inventions BEFORE Europe? That China had a period of time when there were hardly ANY inventions at all - and come to find out it was during the time when OPIUM became wide-spread in China). that's about the time he started taking Chinese language classes at the local chinese "saturday school".

Then he discovered Egypt....

There are a lot of support groups for GT/LD kids out there - if not locally, then online. If you can't find a local group you like, start one. I'm sure there are others "just like you" who would love a group to get together with - if only to play and talk.

Feel free to PM me.

[elleng]

5. You and me both, mzt,, blocked at yhe same term!!!

but the object is to make use of the innate desire to learn/achieve. (learn history and reading at same time, for example.)

[mzteris]

6. you know elleng - I used to like you . . .

but then I saw you're a WV fan!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo Hissssssssssssssssss..........


The ONLY reason they beat Kentucky was 'cause someone put a hex on Ky's basket. That and they weren't shooting their three-pointers for sh*t. Oh well, at least it saved me from having to watch Duke and Kentucky battle AGAIN. I like them both so....

GO DUKE!!



:hi:

[elleng]

7. Hey, my DAUGHTER IS STUDYING SPECIAL ED/ELED at WVU!

[mzteris]

8. awwwwwwwwww- you know im just kiddin'

right?

Well, except about WV being a "real school" and all . . . at least a real BASKETBALL SCHOOL!!!

:rofl:

[elleng]

9. Ha Ha!

I hear Wisc likes to PRESERVE its drunk drivers!

:rofl:

And then there's NC, 'mother' of smoking tobacco! (WOnder how many made connection between Cig Brands: Winstons, and Salems!)



:hi:

[mzteris]

10. you forgot "Bull Durham"

chawin' tabaccy...

[elleng]

11. Oh Yea, and the MOVIE!!!

[elleng]

12. AND her dept . received special $ to develop little kids ed, I think!

It DOES appear to be a 'real school,' tho I admit I wasn't sure, initially.