Cottage Schooling

[Ashraf Dockrat]

Dear Friends

Assalamu 'alaikum

We are starting cottage schooling in Laudium Pretoria. The idea is to allow for 2/3 of the day to be spent on Islamiyyat and 1/3 on conventional schooling.

The planning is advanced and we have an intake of 70 learners.

Please make dua and pass on your own experiences. I am on the syllabus committee and would appreciate any advice.

Wassalam
Ashraf

[shatibi]

Mawlana,

Please forgive my ignorance, but what does cottage schooling mean?

[Ashraf Dockrat]

Mawlana,

Please forgive my ignorance, but what does cottage schooling mean?

This is where parents get together and get a teacher to homeschool their children, It is "illegal" in SA according to the Homeschooling Act

[ILM_Sika]

Masha'Allah hope it goes well for you, children deserve the best upbringing and education that is available.

[Ashraf Dockrat]

Masha'Allah hope it goes well for you, children deserve the best upbringing and education that is available.

Please make dua. Everything is experimental at the moment. I am on the syllabus committee. We are working hard to begin by 12 January 2011 Insha Allah. Premisis are being prepared and next week we finalise allocations and timetabling etc.

Please do special prayers for us. My idea is that should we have a winning model then this can be duplicated elsewhere Insha Allah

Wassalam
Ashraf

[ILM_Sika]

Of course I will do dua for you, your doing a grand job Alhamdulillah, all you need is careful planning. The more you know how children learn the better results you get, there should be rules followed by all staff and pupils. A passion to teach and nurture them and you give them the ability to use their minds creatively.

However well the teacher prepares her class, insha'Allah that will give you a good start, obvious hiccups will occur but you should not be distracted from the main goal. Do this to please Allah s.w.t and everything wil go smoothly, oh and btw make sure the children enjoy the learning as well, nothing worse than a grouchy student believe me

[Umm]

Please make dua. Everything is experimental at the moment. I am on the syllabus committee. We are working hard to begin by 12 January 2011 Insha Allah. Premisis are being prepared and next week we finalise allocations and timetabling etc.

Please do special prayers for us. My idea is that should we have a winning model then this can be duplicated elsewhere Insha Allah

Wassalam
Ashraf

Maulana sahab,
can you give us some feed back on this

[ahmad12]

This is wonderful news,

I have no experience in homeschooling myself but if you read the book 'Homeschooling for excellence' by David Colfax you can get some general ideas. Hamza Yusuf has some old talks about homsechooling which are beneficial. I don't know about the sylabus, you can find some online

[Binti Mahmood]

Assalaamu alaykum Moulana Saheb

I trust that you have been successful inshaa Allah with your efforts in Cottage Schooling. When I read about it I was very interested and impressed, because I do not find many parents who support this. As you have mentioned previously, there are Islamic Schools available, and I suppose most parents are satisfied with this, but I would like better for my children inshaa Allaah so I am strongly intending to start home - schooling with my own daughter inshaa Allaah.

Please would you give me some feedback on your experiences and advice on where to start, planning, methods and curriculum etc.

I am a mother of one, 5 month old girl. My husband and I have completed until standard 8 and 9 respectively and are alhamdulillaah, both students of Deen who have completed our Aalim course. I have experience in teaching at a Girls Madrasa for 2 years as well.

I would appreciate as much information and duaas as possible. Perhaps with enough research, support, and fikr and with Allaah's Nusrat, my husband and I can replicate the type of schooling you are doing, on this side of the world.

Jazaakallaah khair
Wassalaam wa rahmatullaah

[abuusama]

Assalam Alaekum

I am considering to home school my kid (currently going to school in Grade 6). I will appreciate if you share your experiences with home schooling. In Pakistan we have two options for children passing middle school, that they can either do Metric (Grades IX and X) or do O'Levels. I am currently unsure of which approach to take if I start home schooling for my kid.

Jazak'Allah Khair