SCHEA Handbook
Give your home school a name. Brainstorm with your children to choose a name that will give their school an identity. You can name it after your street, neighborhood or community, after some geographic feature, for some spiritual or biblical concept, for the activities that go on at your school, or after a person you admire. The possibilities are endless, so be creative. A school name might also enable you to benefit from discounts, free materials and other resources that are provided to schools. SCHEA Handbook
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Introduction To Educating Your Children At Home
Since the 1970's home education has grown as a popular movement, and like all such phenomena, has attracted research in an attempt to understand, not only why families turn their back on institutionalised education, but also what long term effects may occur for those families and the implications for society as a whole. [more...]
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Homeschooling: The Best Form of Education
The definition of homeschooling is a: "Learning/teaching situation where children spend the majority of the conventional school day in or near their home in lieu of attendance at a conventional institution of education. Parents or guardians are the prime educators of their children". [more...]
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Introduction To Homeschooling
You may have come to this web site because you have some questions about homeschooling. Who are the people who homeschool and why do they do it? If I want to homeschool, how do I get started? What about socialization? Is homeschooling legal? How can I pull my children out of school? Am I really qualified to teach my own children? What about the teenage years? Will my children be prepared for and admitted to a good college? [more...]
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Education Hits Home
But through it all, the movement's youngest proteges, homeschooled students themselves, have by all accounts fared consistently well, in academics as well as that enigmatic realm called socialization. [more...]
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Debunking the myths of home schooling
Home schooling can meet a child's intellectual needs in another important way by allowing the child's interests and passions to be an integral part of the child's education. A young child who is smitten with dinosaurs can read about dinosaurs, learn the science of food chains and habitats through dinosaurs, write stories about dinosaurs, and even do dinosaur math by calculating how much dinosaurs may have eaten or making a chart of the estimated numbers of different species. If a home schooled child is interested in learning state history during a year when United States history is supposed to be taught, parents can take advantage of the child&146;s intrinsic motivation rather than let it fade away and go untapped in order to meet benchmarks and standards. [more...]
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