Home Schooling Tips
It is imperative when home schooling that you have a clear outline of achievable goals for each subject. If you don’t do this it will become easy to suffer from a lack of direction. Here are some Home Schooling Tips for the new home school parent:
Set Some Goals
The first thing you should do is outline some general goals in terms of home schooling: Why do you want to homeschool? What do you want your children to learn? By answering these questions for yourself, you’ll be able to come up with some clear goals, along with an appropriate timeline in which to reach those goals.
After coming up with a general plan for your home schooling, begin to break it down into the individual subject areas that you plan to teach. For each subject area, come up with a time-frame within which different aspects of the subjects will be mastered, as well as an ultimate expectation of how educated your children will be in a subject by the “term’s” end. Speaking of which, you may benefit from thinking of your home schooling curriculum in “terms” mirrored after those in the public school system. Setting goals within these terms will ensure that your children are becoming educated at the same pace – or ahead of – their peers.
Create Your Own Curriculum
Setting up and implementing your own specific curriculum will allow you to better gauge your children’s progress, and to implement a teaching strategy more effectively.
In recent years more and more families have elected to homeschool their children. Home schooling not only allows children to spend more time with their families, but a home schooling parent has the ability to tailor a curriculum as he or she sees fit.
Compared to the cost of a private school, especially for multiple children, home schooling is also a much more economical choice for many people. Below are some home schooling tips.
Read Widely
This is one of the most important aspects of home schooling your children properly. It is imperative that you read extensively on a wide variety of topics. Remember that you are attempting to provide your children with a better education than the public school system, so you want your reading to be on a broad range of subjects.
Although you will definitely want to read some books on the subject of home schooling itself, don’t rely entirely on these books. It’s important that you are knowledgeable not only on how to teach, but on the subjects themselves. You will benefit yourself more from a broad knowledge base from which to teach, then specific knowledge of a particular pedagogical style.
General Topics
Read general works on subjects like history, science, literature, and philosophy. Think of the range of subjects your children would encounter in the public school system, and gain a general knowledge of each. While all this reading may seem daunting, remember that you needn’t become an expert in these subjects. What will usually suffice is a general “history of” or “beginner’s guide to” the various topics.
You want to avoid, of course, having your knowledge of a given subject depend entirely on one person’s opinion or work. But at the same time be realistic: a few, short general works on the subjects should be sufficient to start.
Choose A Few to Study In-Depth
Start exploring the subjects in more depth with your children. Then you may find new and different areas that you become interested in. At that time you may seek out other books that cover the subjects in more depth. Here’s a good rule of thumb (assuming that your children are young). Read at least what a typical high school student would have to read on the subjects that you plan to teach.
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