• Enrich Your Home Schooling Program with a Spanish Flare

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    Studies show that if done properly, the non-traditional home schooling method will produce better results that surpass performance of children that receive traditional classroom style methods. This is why it is important to continuously enhance the home schooling experience to ensure the best learning environment for your child or children. Providing a well-rounded curriculum is key.Read more…
  • Curriculum Review: Bob Jones Reading, Level 6

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    For several years, I used the "living books approach" for reading instruction in my homeschool. Homeschoolers who use this approach use real books for reading instruction, rather than reading textbooks. The idea is to expose kids to real literature, rather than an edited selection of literature.Read more…
  • Home School Options for High School Students

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    There are home schooling curriculum for high school students that are available for parents to check out in case they want to put their kids through the program. Contrary to popular opinion, home schooling is not merely limited to primary and lower grade class students. In fact, there are even home courses available for upcoming college students.Read more…
  • A Useful Home Schooling Article

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    Interest in home schooling has been growing. In fact, More and more families want to try out this seemingly novel method of teaching and educating children. Home schooling provides many benefits for families as well as the home school students.Read more…
  • Simple Homeschool Success Tips

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    There certainly is an abundance of homeschooling information available and this is a good thing… for the most part… as long as you don’t get bogged down in overload and suffer paralysis by analysis. There are a lot of wonderful articles and tips to help you insure your homeschool success.So, through the experiences of my own and reading about those experiences and advice of others, here are some of, not only the best, but most universal home school success tips.Read more…
  • Designing Your Homeschool Curriculum? Include Latin!

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    When designing your homeschool curriculum or choosing homeschool electives or a foreign language course, an interesting question commonly arises. "Should we study Latin?" For many students, the answer is a resounding, "Yes!Read more…
  • A Non-Traditional Tradition

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    More and more people are talking about home schooling and online schools. As talk about it increases, so do the questions of parents as to what exactly is home schooling and online schools. Are these two things the same and do these methods really work?Read more…
  • Tips in Establishing a Homeschool Reading Program

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    Reading is one of the most basic subjects that a child should take up during the early years of development. This subject is therefore important in creating a homeschooling program for your child. A good reading program for homeschool is crucial in developing your child’s mental ability and school performance.Read more…
  • The Downside of Homeschooling

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    Homeschooling has become really popular these past years especially with children who are tired of the old school routine. With homeschooling, students enjoy greater freedom, flexibility and dynamism. Still, there are some that do not feel that the homeschooling program is for everyone.Read more…
  • The Different Cons of Homeschooling

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    Despite being a viable alternative to traditional classroom setting, there are still some people who feel that Homeschooling is not for everyone. Like many things, this new system of education has its disadvantages. Here are some of them.Read more…
  • Five Tips on Starting to Home School

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    Home schooling can be an interesting, stimulating, and even fun journey for both parent and student. But, sometimes, it ends up being frustrating for everyone. Below are ten tips to make homeschooling enjoyable for the whole family:1. If you are removing your child from a traditional school situation, give him time to adjust to a whole new daily routine.Read more…
  • Tally Ho! Abacus Education for Home Schools

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    Enter a classroom in any abacus center in India and you will see children busy with something that looks like a toy — tiny brown beads compiled neatly in columns. On the wall is propped a similar toy, though bigger with large, shiny yellow beads.The teacher calls out a complex calculation, almost like an open challenge.Read more…
  • Effective Math Tutoring

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    People may think that the key to effective math tutoring, or tutoring in any area for that matter, is contingent upon the knowledge that the tutor brings to the table. While knowledge of one’s field is certainly important if a tutor is going to be effective, more important is the tutor’s ability to relate to your child and give him or her the necessary confidence to succeed in the math subject at hand. During my many years of math tutoring, students would come to know that I knew my field well, but more importantly they came to know that I could relate to them on a deeply personal level.Read more…
  • The Vast Majority of Homeschooled Students are NOT Unsocialized

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    Today's homeschooled student is not a child living somewhere in a remote place with no social interaction. Though that still seems to be the common perception among the majority of people not intimately familiar with homeschooled students, it is an erroneous assumption. As a homeschooling parent for the last six years, I've met dozens and dozens of other homeschooling families while living in two different states, and the vast majority of the children of all these families had social skills equal to or surpassing their public school peers.Read more…
  • Home Schooling Cons

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    The concept of individual teaching as a means for greater and faster effectiveness of education has been established for recent decades. In many cases this concept was successfully proved by children who were educated at homes and could present brilliant knowledge and skills comparing with their peers who were taught at public schools. The statistics said home schooling children presented high scores 15 percent more than public school children did.Read more…
  • Homeschooling or Private School?

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    First, parents prove public schools cannot give the best education because teachers are not able to give so much attention to each pupil. Thus, a child cannot be developed relevantly and this would hardly help teachers discover his abilities. Social life at public schools are seen by parents as the worst model of their child’s future environment where individual tends to adopt himself to other individuals even if he does not want to.Read more…
  • Why To Use Dry Erase Boards For Instructive Purposes

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    As you know the dry erase boards are very useful in the classroom as well as in the boardroom also. These dry erase boards are allowed to post information in a very animated fashion. Teachers or a presenter can speak their views or information not only through verbally but also they can write down on the board, sketch pictures, and note important points.Read more…
  • Homeschooling Socialization: The Greatest Conflict of Homeschooling

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    Homeschooling socialization is by far the most major conflict in relation to homeschooling. The problem is that, by removing your children from the public school environment, you are depriving them of the social development offered by public schools. After all, it would be difficult for a child to develop social skills when they are not given the opportunity to interact with other children.Read more…
  • Learning Will Never End Up

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    The great positive influence of learning on human’s health and social position can be used by parents to encourage their children to successfully study at school. Children need to be encouraged with their school study every day. Though teachers can do such job perfectly they meet children and are able to communicate with them during school classes only.Read more…
  • Parents Shall Study

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    However, there are many researches which have proved that parents involvement shall not be less that teachers’. Such point of view has been proved by some studies which demonstrated the big shift in children’s scores and education level when their parents get involved in children’s education process. The great effect of parents involvement can be explained by psychological aspects and children’s attitude to their parents.Read more…

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