Eclectic Homeschooling – This type of homeschooling works under the philosophy that you should enhance your child’s everyday activities and emotions, using them to insert appropriate lessons to teach them a subject.
Classical Homeschooling – This goes way back to the middle ages. Young children being learning the basics – reading, writing, and artithmetic. After learning the basics, they move on to learn basic grammar using collections and compositions.
Next the serious study of reading and writing and arithmetic begins in the dialect stage. Unlike public schools who use grade-appropriate materials, the child learns in stages.
The Charlotte-Mason Method – One of the most popular ways to homeschool today. Using nature, literature, and real-life experiences, Charlotte-Mason developed this style to enrich a child’s education.
Although a child must still be taught with a regular curriculum according to your state’s laws, they can learn to love learning with nature lessons, poetry understanding and much more. When learning is more enlightening for a child, they’re more apt to absorb the information then when they’re given a bunch of facts to memorize.
Montessori-at-Home – With this kind of home schooling, a child learns the basics through their environment and by using all of their senses. Not by memorizing facts straight out of a textbook.
The Moore Formula – This method of home schooling is a way of teaching and studying with a fix amount of time each day dependent on the child’s needs. The method is broken into three parts.
It involves manual work and entrepreneurship, which teaches a child to accept responsibility. Lastly, it involves home or community service, which builds character within the child.
The Reggio Emilia Approach – Aimed at preschool children, this method promotes learning through exploration – not by forcing the fundamentals. Children are allowed to learn what they need to know at their own pace.
The Structured Homeschooling Approach – This is a method of homeschooling that is similar to the curriculum seen in public schools. This approach teaches lessons at a grade level depending on the student’s age and where they are at in their academics.
The Unit Study Approach – With this type of home schooling, the child learns a complete subject instead of simply working their way through a textbook. The child learn using reading, science, math, and others ways to study the topic. Studies demonstrate that a child retains up to 50% more using this technique compared with traditional public school methods.
Unschooling – This is the simplest home schooling method. You let your son or daughter determine their learning needs. By not following a strict curriculum, you’ll discover what to teach based on your childs interests.
Waldorf Homeschooling – This method works on the philosophy of teaching through use of spirit, soul and body. The method teaches that the child will best learn by exploring their environment.
Now it’s time to analyze your child’s abilities and how you feel about each method of home schooling. Which one is best for you and your child?
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Added: January 3, 2010
Homeschooling is not a new idea; in fact our public school system is newer than parents teaching their children at home. Our founding fathers did discuss whether or not to require children to attend school (compulsory schooling), but they decided to leave the decision up to the individual families and state and local governments. In 1850, Massachusetts was the first state to require children to attend school. There were many reasons for this law, but the main reasons were to keep children out of the workforce and teach them to be good citizens.
Even with laws being enacted across the United States, many parents continued to homeschool their children. Homeschooling became an underground movement, but has picked up speed. With American children falling behind in math and science and violence continuing to escalate in schools, parents feel the public system is failing. Statistics show that the top 3 reasons parents decide to homeschool are: safety for their children, being able to teach from a religious perspective and having a program tailored to their childs learning needs.
There are many different approaches to homeschooling. Here is a small list:
* Classical Homeschooling. The people who use this approach believe that the brain develops in three stages – grammar, logic and rhetoric.
* Structured Homeschooling. This approach most resembles institutionalized schools.
* Unschooling. This approach was started in the 1960s by John Holt, a Boston educator who did not agree with how children were taught in schools. He felt children should be free to learn at their own pace, not to be dictated to by teachers.
Again, this is a small list of different approaches. Each one has its own idea of how children learn best.
There are many advatages to homeschooling, but the one disadvantage I see is the child not being able to socialize with other children. I am sure that there are programs for homeschooled children to be sociable and as this educational choice continues to grow, more opportunities will be made available.
We parents know better than anyone what is best for our children. Homeschooling may be the future for education. And maybe we should look to our past to find the future.
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Added: December 30, 2009
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