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Homeschooling – Can You Really Do This?


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As you know, school house instructors get ready for their career path through many hours of course work, methodology classes, and student teaching before they begin teaching school. So how in the world could a parent without such training and preparations expect to be able to successfully home school their children?

As someone who has accomplished both, I can tell you that home schooling is quite a different job than classroom teaching. For instance, a classroom instructor is tasked with the rather prodigious challenge of conveying specific skills to a big group of kids with a lot of different studying abilities and learning styles and certainly they come from different backgrounds. I can tell you, as a teacher, the temperament toward learning in which the child is exposed to at home is a huge influencing factor when it comes to the child’s performance at school. Whether a child comes from a home environment that embraces and nurtures learning or not makes teaching a big group of students an even more challenging task. Then there are those discipline issues that inevitably come. When this occurs, the schoolteacher is bound to follow rules, regulations, and policies. And may or may not have the support of the parents in correcting the behavior.

Disciplinary action is a whole different arena when you are a home schooling parent. This is a natural duty for you as a parent and as such you can integrate the rules and procedures that not only work ideal for your home school but for family as well.

As a home schooling parent, you’re in control of the home environment of student(s)! And homeschoolers certainly don’t have to teach, motivate, and reach out to an whole room full of kids at one time. We only have to motivate and manage one (or several) children, and even then (if you’re creative with your scheduling and planning) it does not have to be all at the same time. As parents, homeschoolers are driven by the highest of motivators… the love for their kids and the desire for them to be successful.

When it comes to the curriculum, schoolteachers are largely bound by a prescribed program and schedule. In the traditional school room, because of scheduling and time constraints (in addition to everything else) a school teacher must instruct as efficiently as possible. Too much time on one unit will probably mean cuts being made in others. One of the biggest challenges schoolteachers face with the larger class sizes is finding teaching pace that will not out run the slower student yet deliver to the higher learners subject matter that challenges them as well. Regrettably, the answer is usually a compromise that neither works for the slower or the faster students.

As a homeschooling parent you don’t have to work within the time constraints or the class sizes. And you certainly won’t get called into the office because you spent too much time on one subject either because your child really took to it and you wanted to dig deeper, or your child struggled to understand some of the concepts and you wanted to review, test and teach a few more before you moved on. As a whole the homeschooling parent can work with and help their kids fully learn something without having to be concerned about any myriad of issues that schoolteachers face.

It is been documented that one on one instruction facilitates learning at a much greater pace than can be done in a one to many environment. The homeschooling parent has the flexibility to adjust the schedule as learning dictates. You’ll find that because this teaching model is so much more efficient than school room learning, that you’ll be able to dig deeper and stay longer within subjects and still have plenty of time on your homeschool yearly calendar.

Preparation is usually a great thing and with today’s technologies it is much easier. Get out there and read books, find a few great online homeschooling forums that you like and jump in. You’ll soon get a feel for how those ahead of you on the path have approached the very same questions that you have. Be prepared for some sanding and buffing of your schedule and your plans until you find what works best for you, your child(ren) and family.

Do you have educational training and pedigrees that schoolteachers have? Probably not; but as you now know, in the case of home schooling you do not need a lot of of them.

So, homeschooling… can you really do this? I think you’ll find that with the availability of so a lot of resources currently, combined with your enthusiasm for your child’s success and the love of being their parent that… yes you can do this.



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