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In your experience, are there some tools or even a general cultural approach that benefit homeschooling parents which could be applied to mainstream teachers?
by JacobAldridge 12y ago
In your experience, are there some tools or even a general cultural approach that benefit homeschooling parents which could be applied to mainstream teachers?
- tokenadult 12y agoThis is a quick reply because I'm about to go out. Feel free to ask follow-up questions. One thing that homeschoolers fearlessly do is reject curriculum materials if they don't work, and use different materials for different children. Many classroom teachers are not at liberty to do either of these things officially, but if they do them on the sly, they will be helping the learners in their care.
- germinalphrase 12y agoIt is not necessarily a question of tools, techniques, or cultural approach. Are there new ideas that should be shared and adopted - of course - however, the greatest advantage a home school teacher (in many cases a parent) has over mainstream teachers is the ability to work one-on-one for extended periods of time with a single pupil. There is no greater way to impact the education and growth of a young person than to understand and teach to that specific student (which is only partially an academic task). As a high school teacher, I am fully aware that there is more that could be done to modify my instruction and learning goals to more closely align with the individual needs of my students - however it is not possible to do so with while teaching 30 students at a time, 90 students per day, with a total head count just short of two hundred unique individuals each semester. This is the core of Bloom's Two Sigma Problem and the holy grail for educational advancement - but, currently, this is the trade-off we make by sending our children to traditional schools rather than educating them ourselves.