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I'm currently homeschooling three teenagers (since the start of Covid), although one just recently graduated and will be attending University this fall. Ultimat
by itronitron 4y ago
I'm currently homeschooling three teenagers (since the start of Covid), although one just recently graduated and will be attending University this fall. Ultimately we decided to take the leap to homeschooling because the quality of instruction and curriculum available to us through local or online schools was either not good or not a good fit.
Prior to that the two biggest things stopping us were the assumption that children have to go to an 'official' school in order to get a diploma and go to college, and the challenge in finding good curriculum.
In my opinion, the good resources include Khan Academy, IXL, and Well Trained Mind, or at least that is what has worked for us.
Tools that would make homeschooling easier would be an assignment tracker by class/subject that was easy to use. Khan supports assigning work but it's rather labor intensive to administer. For example if I have assigned tasks in a class for the next eight weeks and the schedule slides by one week then it would be nice to be able to just move all the assignments in that class back one week instead of changing every individual assigned date separately (as Khan Academy currently requires). This could even be something as simple as making a list of assignments available as a spreadsheet.
Logical progression across the units in a class is important. The Khan Academy AP Physics curriculum is a good example of what not to do in that respect.
Any attempt by the instructor/course material at getting the student excited about learning should be avoided/removed.
Grammatical errors, typos, and misspellings should never be present in anything your company makes available to students or parents.
- OJFord 4y ago> one just recently graduated That's quite funny if you don't immediately recall that North Americans talk of 'graduating' school... Anyway, do you fit this in alongside working (not as a home-teacher I mean) through some combination of relatively hands-off assignments etc. and evenings/weekends, or does it only work because you don't?