Create an exciting learning experience that is an ongoing education that will last beyond the schooling years!

Step 10 of the Ten Steps to Successful Homeschooling
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Check out local colleges for offerings listed under "continuing ed" and "precollege" courses. Both might waive age and diploma requirements. Internships and apprenticeships can sometimes offer a better higher education than a college, depending on the individual and their goals. Teach your kids how to learn and how to love learning, and it will become a lifelong adventure for them. Remember to keep alive your own love of learning. It's never too late to learn something new, and it's the best cure in the world for sadness, loneliness, grief, desperation, confusion. So ask yourself (and your kids) what you might like to learn -- if you could choose to learn anything at all -- and LEARN SOMETHING NEW!

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Websites

• Here's a list of Home School Friendly Colleges and Universities.
• Cafi Cohen's Homeschool Teens & College website.
• Colleges that have admitted homeschoolers
• The HSLDA has a section for internships for teens
• Goddard College Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers
  Teen homeschoolers can now earn college credit for their independent studies. Goddard College, an innovator in higher education since 1938, has just opened a new program exclusively for homeschoolers.
  After seeing this program in action, one parent wrote: "This is a vastly different experience than you will find in most other school/learning situations. For unschoolers this is a continuation for growth/learning in the way that these teens have become accustomed to learning -- a very positive, exciting learning experience."
  The next semester begins with a residency on Goddard's beautiful campus in rural Vermont on September 8-11. Applications will be accepted through August 18.
  For more information, contact Ron Miller, Ph.D., Program Director, Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. MillerR@goddard.edu
  Students attend a 3-day residency at Goddard's campus in rural Vermont, where they design a personal study plan for the semester with the assistance of a faculty mentor. Then they return home (or anywhere in the world) and send their work to their mentor at regular intervals during the 12-week semester. Students can register for one or two 3-credit, self-designed courses per semester. Goddard is fully accredited, and credit earned in this program may be applied to students' future college or university studies.
  Students enrolled in the program this semester are studying a wide range of subjects, including playwriting, psychology, Spanish, equine phyisology, the history of Irish music, and more. Goddard matches each student with a mentor who has expertise and enthusiasm in the student's chosen field.
  There are no grades, exams, or assigned textbooks. The Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers is based on students' own curiosity and passion for learning.
  The cost of the program is $981 for each 3-credit course, plus a room and board fee for the 3-day residency. Financial aid is available.
  The program is open to young people ages 14-19 who have had some experience with independent learning and are academically ready for college-level study in at least one subject. Goddard College welcomes a diverse student body and the program is open to families from diverse homeschooling backgrounds.

This is Step 10 of the Ten Steps to Successful Homeschooling
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