Teaching Strategies For Children 's Elementary School Years At A Public School And Our Homeschool Years

Children do not come with guidelines or instructions. What they do come with is a crucial set of physical and emotional needs that need to be met. To raise children properly, parents duties are not limited to just food, shelter and protection. Parents are largely responsible for their children’s success in life. Parents are required to teach and educate children. They have to shape knowledge and character into their children to prepare them to face the real world. To be successful with this, parents must provide self esteem needs, teach moral and values and provide discipline that is both effective and appropriate. As the generations have changed, many parenting styles have evolved, as well.

In the other hand parents who choose to home school their kids are faced with a great deal of advantages. Home schooling a child means that a parent has to give 100 percent dedication into teaching there child. One great asset to home schooling is that children are often way ahead in their grade work as compared with their peers in public school. They learn to read much earlier and advance through their subjects much faster and in a more thorough manner, due to more individualized attention and subject-specific attention. By being taught at home, the student has immediate access to the "teacher", and can ask questions at just about any time without having to worry about other students and their learning habits. Parents don’t have to worry about the safety of their child when it comes to home schooling. The child is in the home and always being watched if something where to happen it would be the parents’ responsibility and the parent would know what to do

i. Dr. Brian Ray (2009), found that homeschool parents have more formal education than parents in the general population; 66.3% of the fathers and 62.5% of the mothers had a college degree (i.e., bachelor’s degree) or a higher educational attainment.

Children deserve and need the best possible start in their lives in order for them to fulfil their full potential in their learning and development (Terry, 2009). A happy, healthy and supportive childhood will help children to achieve the best that they possibly can (Smeyers and Wring, 2007).

All homeschoolers aren’t always necessarily smarter than public schoolers, but because they are very good at self-motivating themselves and they work very hard and set high expectations they normally do well on standardized tests. When it comes to college graduation, homeschoolers graduated at a rate of 66.7% and public schoolers graduated at a rate of 57.5% at a doctoral college. Homeschooled students also normally score fifteen to thirty percent higher on standardized testing and graduate with a consistently higher GPA than the average public schooler. Colleges, such as Harvard, have been looking for homeschoolers in particular because they are often the most prepared for college. It has been made clear that because of the homeschooler’s superior form of education, they score quite high on standardized tests and turn out to be more intelligent than the students of other schools. The fact that this type of education benefits the student should be an influential factor in the decision about homeschooling.

Students that attend home school are less likely to be stressed out because of school work, and less likely to be a victim of peer pressure.

Do you think home schooling is better than normal education? Home schooling is type of education that parents is a way to teach as teachers to their children instead going to normal school. Some parents choose home schooling rather than normal schools for many reasons like they are afraid of the low quality of the schools nowadays and that's definitely wrong because they think that schools is just for studying. Schools not only for learning but also do encourage in the student that sense of creativity, doing activities and play sports. On the other hand, home schooling was the most popular way of education in past ago so there is still parents think that to teach their children the experience they get from life this is called education like

Another reason that people may think homeschooling is not good for kids, is that they don’t get a well rounded education. In the article “Homeschooling Curricula Do Not Meet Academic Standards,” it talks about how a mother or father can teach their kids when they, the parents, haven’t been to college (Shives). The teachers that teach in public, private, and charter schools have gone to college to learn how to teach their students. These teacher take years of college to be able to teach kids what they need to know. The teachers take specialized classes for specific grade levels as well. These classes are all tailored to help kids learn in each stage of their lives. In my personal experience when I’ve had Algebra homework and needed help, my

The greatly discussed dilemma of having a child be taught in a public school setting versus a homeschool setting has been evaluated by parents since the idea was first introduced in the 1970’s. Public schooling had been the standard method of teaching since it is a requirement for states to provide public, free education for children in grades K-12. However, the backlash against the system began when two educational theorists and supporters of school reform, John Holt and Raymond Moore, started to question both the techniques and the products of public schools. Some parents went on to support the ideas of them and began to teach their children in the environment of their own homes for several different reasons. Some included moral or religious reasons, a desire for high educational achievement, dissatisfaction with public schools’ instructional program, or concerns about drugs and peer pressure in a public school environment. Child development specialists believe that homeschooled children are isolated from the outside world, therefore making them socially handicapped. If being exposed to this type of education on an elementary school level, the child can suffer from the lack of fundamental development of effective social skills needed for a lifetime ahead of them.

Home schooling adapts the curriculum to meet the needs of each individual child. For example if a child is gifted and bored in school, the curriculum could be adjusted so that it challenges the student. The curriculum could also be adjusted for a student with slower learning abilities and cater to the childðs learning style. Home schooling allows a more flexible schedule and course selection. If a student has a particular interest their education could incorporate that interest within the curriculum. Also, the schedule could be adjusted to the childðs productivity hours. The student teacher ratio with home schooling as compared to public schooling is lower, which benefits the childðs achievement.

I view children as small individuals who need guidance, love, nurture, praise, and care. That’s why I aspire to help my children in every way I can. Without these things children are set up for failure. They will not be set up on a path to success if they are abandoned, and left to fend for themselves. At a very early age in life a child is able to form an attachment with his or her mother. I find it beneficial for a child to obtain a secure attachment that is why my philosophy on parenting is the way it is. I view children as active learners who want to gain knowledge. This is why parents need to be their lifelong teacher and coach. Children come out of the womb as a blank slate and it’s the parents job to help the child learn right from wrong, become independent, and to live a happy successful

Home-schooling is very much legal. “Home-schooling is legal in all 50 states, although specific requirements vary, according to RSA 193-A, the New Hampshire home educational law” (The Learning Center). Legal home-schooling requires a lot of work from the parent’s side. They would have to notify the superintendents from the school about when they would start to home-school their kids. Also, the amount of information being sent to them must always be circulating. The parents must also keep their child’s portfolio containing the kid’s academic works as well as samples of the child’s work performance. As for submitting an “annual evaluation (there are several evaluations options to choose from)…[it] must demonstrate educational progress commensurate with the child’s age and ability” (Perrault).

Homeschooling is a major decision taken by parents and it can help students turn a new phase in their learning through its advantages. Parents may prefer homeschooling due to various reasons like peer pressure, ill exposure to subjects and lack of attention from the part of teachers owing to large sized classroom atmosphere.

Homeschoolers have the advantage to learn the curriculum without being lost or having any issues, while being helped at all times. This allows the students to be higher educated and achieve higher grades, preparing them well for college. For example, homeschool students graduated from college at a much higher rate than their peers with 66.7% while having a GPA of 3.46, as for students that went to public schools had a rate of 57.5% with a GPA of 3.16, as stated by Collegeathome.com. Although people doubt homeschoolers, they are growing at a rapid rate and it’s because of the proficiency that those who were homeschooled have gained.

Whether or not to home-school your children is a controversial issue for thousands of parents every year. Do you want to let your children go out on their own or keep them safe at home where you can monitor their development? Many parents choose to home-school their children and there are plenty of arguments for and against this decision. When it all comes down to it the decision will be based on the socio-economic status of the family, as to whether they can afford to have one parent at home tutoring the child, instead of out working and also whether or not they feel it is safe enough to let their children go to the public schools.