AMG Educational Specialist

guiding children, youth and families

AMG makes the world our educational classroom and the students become the explorers of their own world of learning.

AMG - Homeschooling Advocate

After years of teaching with traditional pedagogies in mainstream settings, and alternative pedagogies in non-traditional settings, AnnMarie believes that Homeschooling is an ideal environment for learning.

Homeschooling allows for a personalized education, considering the unique development of the child and his/her/their needs. When personalizing curricula, families can make learning part of their everyday lives. Home activities, the weather, geography, our watersheds, building projects, cooking, gardening, shopping lists, exercise programs, hobbies, problem solving, travel and even vacations become part of the educational experience, easily integrated into lessons, projects and experiential learning.

In our educational system, students are rushed out the house in the early morning, and are they subjected to hours of sitting in desks each day. They are expected to learn and do like every other child in the class.

Very often, in our educational system, students are told, from a very young age, that they are “behind” or “challenged" learners, when they are neither. The child is merely learning at their own pace or flat-out bored with the monotony of the school day. Students need time to play, explore, imagine and create. Sitting in desks in school for the majority of the day and saddled with hours of homework at night isn’t conducive to learning.

Our school system was designed to create factory workers, who respond to bells and whistles and follow the rules. In the need to homogenize education we have lost creative and critical thinking, instead focusing on consuming factoids of information which aren’t pertinent to their lives or their well being in their futures.

Students enter our school system excited to learn, loving their teachers, looking forward to their days. Sometimes sooner, but undoubtedly by the time they are in middle school, most students are un-inspired to learn and don’t like to go to school.

In our educational system, we’re obviously not addressing the needs of growing children and curious students. With homeschooling, we have the opportunity to do it differently.