10 Ways To Homeschool Your Child
Colin Joss
If you're planning on homeschooling your child, you'll need to learn the many styles of homeschooling that's available so that you can decide which would work best for your family.
Eclectic Homeschooling - With eclectic homeschooling you use everyday activities and feelings to teach your child about 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.
Then they move to the dialect stage, where the serious study of reading, writing and arithmetic comes in. Instead of learning grade-appropriate materials that public schools use, the child learns in stages.
The Charlotte-Mason Method - This is one of the most popular methods of homeschooling today. Charlotte-Mason developed this style to enrich a child's education through nature, literature and real life experiences.
Your state will dictate that your child must follow a regular curriculum but your child can still learn about nature, poetry and lots more. Your child will learn more this way than simply by memorizing a bunch of facts.
Montessori-at-Home - Rather than memorizing facts straight out of a book, this kind of homeschooling helps a child learn the basics through their senses and their environment.
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.
The method promotes community service to build character, manual work, and entrepreneurship to teach responsibility.
The Reggio Emilia Approach - Targetted at preschool-aged children, this approach promotes learning through exploration without forcing the fundamentals. Children learn what they want to learn 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 - This approach to homeschooling allows a child to learn a subject as a whole instead of just reading chapters in a textbook. A child learns a subject through use of reading, science, math and other methods to learn that topic. Children can retain almost 50% more than the traditional study techniques applied in public schools.
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.
analyzing your child's learning abilities and your comfort-level with each type of instruction, you'll be able to find a method of homeschooling that fulfills both you and your child during the educational journey the two of you take together.
Want to discover whether home schooling is right for you and your children? Find impartial suggestions on the best home schooling methods here.
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