What is home schooling and methods

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What is home schooling and methods
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• Homeschooling is a progressive movement around
  the country and the world, in which parents
  choose to educate their children at home instead
  of sending them to a traditional public or
  private school. Families choose to homeschool for
  a variety of reasons, including dissatisfaction
  with the educational options available, different
  religious beliefs or educational philosophies,
  and the belief that children are not progressing
  within the traditional school structure.
• The homeschooling movement began growing in the
  1970s, when some popular authors and researchers,
  such as John Holt and Dorothy and Raymond Moore,
  started writing about educational reform. They
  suggested homeschooling as an alternative
  educational option. According to the National
  Home Education Research Institute, there are now
  more than two million children being homeschooled
  in the U.S., with the percentage rapidly
  increasing by 7 percent to 15 percent each year.
  Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states and in
  many foreign countries.

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What are the requirements?

• Legal requirements for homeschooling in the U.S.
  vary from place to place. Some states have few or
  no requirements others ask for portfolio reviews
  or standardized testing at certain intervals.
• According to Holt, author of the best-selling
  book Teach Your Own, the most important thing
  parents need to homeschool their children is
  "to like them, enjoy their company, their
  physical presence, their energy, foolishness, and
  passion. They have to enjoy all their talk and
  questions, and enjoy equally trying to answer
  those questions." For the majority of parents who
  homeschool, the only prerequisite is the desire
  to do so, along with a dedication to the
  educational process.

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Homeschooling Methods

• Most homeschoolers consider their choice of
  methods to be eclectic. It's rare for a family to
  fit within the confines of one specific
  educational philosophy because homeschooling
  offers flexibility for families to choose and
  blend different methods according to their
  children's needs in each stage of development. If
  you're thinking about teaching your child at
  home, here are eight common methods to consider.
  Find the one that best fits your beliefs about
  education or combine different approaches.

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Traditional Method

• Traditional homeschooling mirrors the classroom
  approach to learning. Parents use textbooks,
  workbooks, and tests to teach and keep track of
  their children's progress. They may have a
  dedicated room in their home for school hours.
  Some kids love checking off boxes and completing
  worksheets, and this method works well for them.
  But if you're taking on the responsibility of
  teaching your children at home, you may want to
  experiment with a few other educational
  philosophies first, as one of homeschooling's
  main benefits is the freedom it gives families to
  think outside the box about learning.

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Classical Education Method

• Classical homeschoolers base their children's
  education on the trivium -- three distinct stages
  of learning, each with its own focus. Languages
  such as Greek and Latin, as well as the study of
  classical works of literature and philosophy,
  form the framework for much of this method. Young
  children start in the Grammar Stage, in which
  memorization of facts and figures plays a main
  role. Around fifth grade, kids enter the Logic
  Stage, which begins when they can more fully
  understand the relationship between events and
  the concept of cause and effect. During
  their teenyears, students progress to the final
  phase -- the Rhetoric Stage, in which they focus
  on expressing their own original thoughts,
  through both speech and writing, about what
  they're studying.

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Charlotte Mason Method

• Charlotte Mason developed a distinctive approach
  to school education in the late 1800s in Britain.
  Refusing to give her students textbooks, she had
  them read original works by noted authors
  instead. "Children familiar with great thoughts
  take naturally to thinking for themselves as the
  well-nourished body takes to growing and we must
  bear in mind that growth -- physical,
  intellectual, moral, spiritual -- is the sole end
  of education, " she says in her book The Original
  Homeschooling Series. Mason's philosophies have
  seen a revival among homeschoolers, who model her
  emphasis on nature study, short academic lessons
  in the early years, art and music study, and
  narration, a retelling in a student's own words
  of the information learned.

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Waldorf Education Method

• Founded by Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian
  philosopher and teacher in the late 1800s, this
  method takes a holistic approach to education. It
  seeks to develop not only a child's mind but also
  his character, compassion, and creativity.
  Academic subjects such as math and reading
  incorporate drawing or painting, and teachers
  integrate storytelling, nature study, and
  handwork (including knitting and woodworking)
  into their curriculum. The principles of a
  Waldorf education have led to one of the most
  popular private school movements in the world.

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Interest-Led Learning Method

• Families who embrace interest-led learning, also
  referred to as unschooling, let their children's
  personal goals and interests form the basis of
  their education. This movement began when John
  Holt, an experienced classroom teacher, found
  himself frustrated by flaws in the traditional
  school system. He became an early pioneer of
  homeschooling in the 1970s. In his book How
  Children Fail, Holt wrote that "children do not
  need to be made to learn to be better, told what
  to do or shown how. If they are given access to
  enough of the world, they will see clearly enough
  what things are truly important to themselves and
  to others, and they will make for themselves a
  better path into that world than anyone else
  could make for them."

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Leadership Education Method

• Proponents of Leadership Education, also known as
  Thomas Jefferson Education, believe that children
  learn differently at various stages of their
  development. Drawing on the work of Jean Piaget
  and other educational philosophers, the method
  leads students through three distinct phases of
  learning Core, Love of Learning, and Scholar.
  Classic books, mentors, and inspiration from the
  parent-teacher also play key roles in the
  curriculum. The Core phase lasts until around age
  8 and focuses mostly on play and family
  relationships rather than academic development.
  Children then transition to the Love of Learning
  phase and continue to learn according to their
  own interests. The Scholar phase begins around
  age 12, when the majority of a student's
  traditional book and academic learning takes
  place.

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Unit Study Method

• Parents who use the unit study method (which is
  the most common during the elementary years) take
  a subject their child finds interesting and
  incorporate it into a variety of academic fields.
  For example, a child who eats, sleeps, and
  breathes trains would read books about trains,
  delve into the history of trains, and use
  miniature trains as manipulatives when learning
  math concepts. Arts and crafts and handwriting
  assignments can be integrated into the unit's
  topic as well. Unit studies require more
  preparation time than other methods, but they can
  be a good fit for families who enjoy this type of
  hands-on work.

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Montessori Method

• Maria Montessori, an Italian physician, developed
  this method in the early 1900s. Her philosophy,
  which has resulted in a popular private school
  movement, includes a focus on hands-on
  experience, freedom and choices for the student,
  and order within the learning environment. In a
  homeschool setting, the Montessori parent-teacher
  observes what the child is developmentally ready
  to learn and then provides gentle guidance and
  direction. According to Montessori, "The
  instructions of the teacher consist then merely
  in a hint, a touch -- enough to give a start to
  the child. The rest develops of itself."

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Home school Dubai

• Witty Learning Institute
• Unit 206, Goldcrest Executive Tower,
• Cluster C, Jumeirah Lake Towers Dubai
• (971) 4 557 9008
• info_at_wittylearning.ae