Meet Dianne DachyshynAuthor Since: 2009-02-25 21:01:00Dianne Dachyshyn is a freelance writer and a motivational speaker who lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She works as a home education facilitator, helping homeschooling families plan their programs and deal with challenges. Before working as a facilitator, she home educated her three children for seven years. She has sold curriculum, worked as a private consultant to homeschoolers, served on a homeschooling board and has been a keynote speaker at homeschool conventions and support meetings. Dianne is passionate about teaching children to write. From her experience in the classroom, in homeschooling and in relationships with other writers, she knows that this is by far the most challenging area to learn and to teach. Dianne Dachyshyn is available to speak to groups on the topics of homeschooling, parenting and teaching writing. She can be reached at dianne@homeschoolwell.com. |
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So have you been thinking about the purpose and value of learning assessments? I thought that I would allow some time for our ideas to percolate before continuing the discussion that I began in a previous article. I have been contemplating this topic a lot, especially this past week as I prepared report cards for some of my students.
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Dianne Dachyshyn continues to unveil a plan for dealing with passive-aggressive behavior and outlines why typical approaches fail to change the behavior.
We all want to learn how to homeschool well, but one day we may want to pass some of the teaching burden to someone else. That is when we might consider a correspondence or an online distance course. Whew! It can be a hard decision to allow even that much outside intervention, but once we make the decision, we usually warm up to the idea — fast! Don’t have to worry about that subject anymore, we smirk as we mentally plan to read that new novel or have a snooze! Let the teacher take over now, we cackle. We think our job is done at that point, but we need to think again.
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I couldn’t stop thinking about Laura yesterday. On the drive to church, during the service and on the drive home again, my thoughts flew to a little girl that I have never met.
