Comments on: What is Worldschooling? 4 Different Approaches for Families

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Mon, 20 May 2019 18:31:34 +0000

In reply to acorrinne. We'd love for you to link to us! :) Thanks for reaching out! I love meeting globally-minded families!!

By: The Beginners Guide To World Schooling - Gypsy Soul Suburban Life

The Beginners Guide To World Schooling - Gypsy Soul Suburban Life — Thu, 16 May 2019 05:20:08 +0000

[…] globetrotting” world schoolers – whew, that’s a mouthful! (View article here by kidworldcitizen.org) That means we live, permanently, in our regular home and travel as often as […]

By: acorrinne

acorrinne — Tue, 14 May 2019 23:39:10 +0000

Hello. I enjoyed your post and would like to link to it since I sincerely love the term “settled globetrotters.” Would you mind if I link to this article from my new blog which focuses on our family travels and how we incorporate learning into every trip? If you want to check it out, feel free, but please remember I am new to blogging and this blog is in it’s infancy. Kindest regards, Amy D. GypsySoulSuburbanLife.com

By: How do you worldschool? – Worldschooling Today

How do you worldschool? – Worldschooling Today — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:25:28 +0000

[…] at home) and others have a base and find other ways to travel, if they cannot travel as often. This article provides a nice overview of the different ways families are worldschooling today. Again, we are one of […]

By: So this is where it all starts... - Family Go Travelling

So this is where it all starts... - Family Go Travelling — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:41:16 +0000

[…] not camping as I am not a huge fan, but travelling places and learn with our daughter whilst we are “worldschooling” for a year or, hopefully a bit longer if we can work whilst we are going around the […]

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:07:25 +0000

In reply to Amaira Taylor @UseTravelTips. Absolutely not!!! I think that every day she will be worldschooling :) whether learning about the culture from her friends at school, experiencing culture on the weekends, and learning about the world from home with you!

By: Amaira Taylor @UseTravelTips

Amaira Taylor @UseTravelTips — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:33:02 +0000

I love your post and enjoy reading your blog. We are worldschooling our daughter since birth and want to continue that in the future. We are thinking about letting her attend Kindergarten in Germany, does that contradict the whole concept in your opinion?

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Sun, 20 May 2018 22:00:28 +0000

In reply to Rachel. Hi Rachel! Thank you SO much for your response. I am not the author of the post, so I cannot speak for her, but I really appreciate everything you said. From what you have written, it sounds like you are passionate about educating your children- and in my eyes, that is the best type of teacher :)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 20 May 2018 06:02:24 +0000

In reply to Alyson Long.

Alyson Long- I think your focusing too much on terminology. It’s like saying we are all black or white when in reality we are all a unique mix. I consider my method a little of all- unschool, homeschool, and worldschool.

Similar to Unschooling, I educate my children 3,9, and 15, without a curriculum or guide and they choose their passions for what they want to learn about but I “strew” things to help them along. I don’t do tests or grading and we don’t have a set plan on what we will learn next. It’s very child directed. I let them choose they want to do that day and don’t micromanage them.

However, Similar to homeschooling I make sure that I teach them proper reading and writing skills but I find ways to blend it in with their life. I teach lessons but they don’t have an end result, but rather let them kids guide where it will go. I have my kids do research projects and essays. They read books, write book reports, and do science experiments. I also have daily check-in’s to see progress and my kids are required to keep journals. So it’s not really on schooling.

My dream is to world school but we are location dependent for the moment. However I don’t want that to mean that my kids don’t get the world education that I feel they should. yes we are not able to travel as much as I would love to, but I still teach my kids as much about the world as possible and travel when we can.

Currently we are working on starting up businesses. Each of my kids chose something that they want to create and sell, and we are learning about business, banking, advertising, and selling their goods. With the money that they earn selling their items, they put it into a savings for travel.
The entire year we plan on studying in depth a continent of their choice. During our studies we will study everything from history, language, geography, culture, etc. Towards the end of the year they will choose a country that they studied and they would like to visit. They are in charge of travel plans including purchasing airline tickets rental cars hotels food and sightseeing. Of course I am there to guide them along but we learn by doing. once they are done planning they will purchase Tickets with the money that they earned through their businesses. We plan on going for at least two weeks if not longer.

You say two weeks is not enough to be truly world schooled, but I believe there is a happy medium. I wish we could travel permanently, but it is just not in our cards. I feel that by helping and directing my children and teaching them about the world is better than nothing. We tried to drop everything to travel the world and world school to its definition. However it proved to be more difficult than we anticipated and we are currently what the author would consider to be settled Globetrotters.

For years now I have tried to figure out the best way to educate my children. World schooling, unschooling, homeschooling? It made me crazy and felt like I wasn’t doing it correctly. Reading about all these parents that blasted other people for not doing it correctly and focusing so much on the terms and rules itself made me depressed.

I finally realized that the whole reason I was homeschooling, or whatever you want to call it, my children is because I wanted what was best for them. I did not want them to fit into a category like public education tries to do.Yet, reading all these parents comments that blasted other people for not doing it correctly and focusing so much on the terms itself made me depressed. I finally realized that the whole reason I was homeschooling, or whatever you want to call it, my children is because I wanted what was best for them. And what is best for them is only decided by them and day to day. So I’ve learned to go with the flow and not focus so much on labels.

In fact the term school in any of those labels is incorrect. School is not education. Look up John Holt. Which is why after teaching public school for five years I threw my license out the door and said enough. I want to educate my children , not school them. So I guess you can simply say that I educate my children. How I do that and what it looks like is irrelevant- I myself know what’s best for my children’s education.

By: Language and Cultural Immersion: Summer Family Travel

Language and Cultural Immersion: Summer Family Travel — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:57:15 +0000

[…] might have heard of worldschooling: the combination of education and travel, and the intentional effort to provide their children with […]

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 03:41:12 +0000

In reply to Alyson Long. I will let the author know! Ashley Dymock de Tello wrote the book “World Schooling: How to Revolutionize Education Through World Travel” and is the head writer at Nomad Capitalist. I don't think she was saying that all worldschoolers are unschoolers- though some most certainly are.

By: Alyson Long

Alyson Long — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 04:43:48 +0000

I read your post and disagree with it in it’s entirety. Where did you get these definitions from? They are totally out of touch with reality. I think you just called us worldschooling unschoolers. We are most certainly not. Neither are we worldschooling homeschoolers by your definition. home ed does not need to be ( and is not required to be) structured in any way. Also to say you can worldschool from home is ridiculous, you need a changing environment and introducing change for 2 weeks a year will lead to a sadly under educated child, even if you do it every year, maybe 20 countries, 20 destinations in a childhood. That is by no means enough.

By: World-schooling… without the camper van! | Third Culture Mama

World-schooling… without the camper van! | Third Culture Mama — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:26:48 +0000

[…] Culture Kid in me creates this global world all around us. Indeed, this type of so-called “Unconventional traditionalist” world-schooling is a natural extension of how a Third Culture Kid might choose to parent. […]

By: Chontelle

Chontelle — Fri, 12 May 2017 12:03:55 +0000

Great post, and thank you for featuring us!