Leif Andreason: Homeschooling is not a "public school at home" program where the school sends you textbooks, gives you worksheets or loans you computers. There are programs that exist like this, and they're usually referred to as online, cyber, or virtual schools. These programs are affiliated with a state, county, or city school district. In such programs, students have to take the same standardized tests as other public school students, complete their work according to the school schedule, and answer to public school teachers/other school officials. Although studying is done at home, this is not homeschooling.If you wanted to homeschool a child via authentic homeschooling, you would start with learning the homeschooling laws of the particular state you live in and abiding by them:http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.aspThe next step would be finding out how to actually get started, i.e., choosing curriculum, books, worksheets, etc.http://www.youcanhomeschool.org/starthere! /default....It's also important to get in touch with a homeschool support group and talk to veteran homeschoolers:http://www.hslda.org/LandingPages/local-groups.asphttp://www.secularhomeschool.com/content.php?r=203...There are private online programs, textbooks, worksheets (paid and free) via websites, etc. Many textbook providers have workbooks that include worksheets. Textbooks are bought from secular, Christian, and independent textbook sellers. If parents want to purchase the same textbooks that schools do, they can via websites.Some homeschooled kids use textbooks, others do a combination of textbooks and online study, and still others use library books. Some parents write the curriculum/lesson plans for their children based on their state's scope and sequence for what each student should learn in an academic year based on grade level.It is up to the parent(s) to see that their children learn properly, i.e., teaching, purchasing curriculum, planning field trips and soc! ial outings, etc. This is why it is referred to as home school! ing or home education. No freebies are provided by the state and parents assume total responsibility.I hope this is helpful....Show more
Jesusita Dykhoff: Eleyion is confusing a correspondence program and traditional homeschool. In traditional homeschooling, your parents are the teacher, not someone from a school. Each state has their own laws so it is important to research and follow them. States do not provide independent homeschool students with books. Families must purchase them. There are many places to buy them including from publishers, bookstores, online like Amazon or Ebay. You can also use library books. However, that means families can get anything they want. They are not restricted to what a school recommends. Nor are you required to use worksheets. Many families do, but you can also do activities or literature based program instead. That's one of the big benefits of homeschooling. Families can customize a curriculum that fits their kids interests and lear! ning style as well as their budget and values. Also, you do not send your work or student anywhere. Since the parent is the teacher, the parent would grade all the work and keep records. Some states require parents to submit yearly work samples and/or report what students will be studying and materials used....Show more
Lenard Ginyard: You can get all of those questions answered at a school that offers home school. You're student will have a teacher that they meet up with twice or once a week and that teacher will give out tests and homework.
Bailey Lares: There are many different approaches to homeschooling. Some use textbooks and materials similar to a traditional school, while others may use other books or videos to learn from. Check out a website like www.homeschool.com for links to curriculum ideas.
Lashawnda Anteby: Been homeschooling two of them for six years. First, you figure out your local laws. Every state gets to make up their own laws when i! t comes to education, so in some states it's a real PITA, and in others! it's quite easy.Then you have to decide if you even WANT worksheets. Did you personally find them valuable, did you enjoy them, did you learn tons from them? Is this the BEST method that you want to follow, or do you think that got a little tedious? You might decide that it's way more engaging to try an interactive computer program. And when that doesn't work, you take the kid on an all-day field trip where you can show him what you're working on. The topic is the human body? Great, go to the science museum where they've got a whole exhibit on it. There's a climbing wall for talking about muscles, there's a fast-pitch baseball cage with an exhibit on joints, there's an obstacle course to take your pulse before and after with an exhibit on the heart. Not to mention the plastic skeleton and the setup on digestion that involves squeezing a ping pong ball through a small nylon tube. For older kids, drop them off at the closest BodyWorks exhibit, and c'mon, who seriously doesn'! t like Bill Nye videos? (Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!) Where do you send them? Um...nowhere, unless there are things you can't or don't want to teach. Maybe the kid wants to act onstage, so you find a community college theater production requiring younger kids and they try out for the part. Or the kid has a burning desire to try pottery. You don't happen to have a potter's wheel in the basement, so you take the kid to the artist studios downtown and you watch them work and talk to them about how you want to try it and they give you some names and numbers of good teachers. Or you take a two-week intensive course from the local potter's studio down the street throwing clay for four hours a day. It all depends on what's around you and what your kid is interested in. Do they get textbooks? Well, if you choose to buy them. But textbooks are awfully dry and boring. We tried K12.com for a few years, and by the time you get into middle elementary grades, the program is just basically te! xtbooks online. YAWN. So we dropped that. I've been combining Story of ! the World with Horrible Histories with some relative success. How does it work? Can I got to college? What if mom isn't a teacher? http://www.wagnerweb.org/Homeschool_101...Show more
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