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As a homeschooler, people would ask me, "How do you socialize?" or, "How do you do anything extracurricular?" All of these questions boggled my mind. There was never a day in my life that I stayed home the whole day. It was always in my best interest to complete my lessons before a certain time of the day. As far as extracurricular activities, I attended a sewing course instituted by Suzette Russo.…
John Taylor mentioned some of the most successful people known in history who received their education from home but still managed to make it in life. He acknowledged leaders, such as Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington as prominent people who shaped the modern American history “Gatto 37”. They were not products of the current compulsory schooling system but still afforded to develop the rich history of the U.S., which is celebrated to date. Indeed, they must have been taught by through a system that did not require one to go to school. Homeschooling still thrives as the better…
This curriculum targets adult students enrolled in a Healthcare College. The goal behind this curriculum is to stimulate the medical assistant students to formulate their own opinions after confronting the topics in class, applying ethical principles resulting in ethical behaviors with the purpose of being better informed consumers, increasing their moral judgment on their personal life and workplace. Traditionally, Law and Ethics Module have been taught as a collection of concepts the student needs to memorize in order to pass a determined test. According to Rest (1988) as cited in Boss (2011) a traditional law and ethics course restricting the study of ethics to theory without performing any attempt to help the learner to be a better person,…
“I hate reading.” How often do we hear people utter this sentence? In this day and age, with education more widely available, especially in the United States, one would think that the love of reading would grow rather than diminish. Why, then, do people, including those who have already graduated from high school and thus should have been exposed to a variety of texts, loathe books so much? Not textbooks—as it is understandable that someone might recoil at the sort of dry material one can find in a textbook—but real classic literature, like Homer’s…
Homeschool Policy Overview A family policy is a “policy that aims to protect, promote, and strengthen families by addressing one or more of the five explicit functions families perform: family formation, partner relationships, economic support, childrearing, and caregiving” (Bogenschneider, 2014, p. 57). In this paper, I will be discussing the homeschool policy. With the definition of family policy in mind, I will be talking about how the homeschool policy does protect, promote, and strengthen families in a variety of ways. Homeschooling is one of the several options to choose from when it comes to the education of children.…
In 2008, one of the overarching goals of the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs [MCEETYA], 2008) was to deliver a world–class curriculum that included a focus on student social and emotional health and wellbeing. As a result, the Australian Curriculum (AC) incorporated Health and Physical Education (HPE) as one of eight key learning areas (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2015), which nurtures fundamental concepts students will need to become healthy, safe and active Australian citizens. Safety is a critical area addressed in the HOE curriculum, and the four lesson plans below look at building on students’…
More than two out of five (42 percent) college students are not adequately prepared by the education they received in high school. The National Curriculum aims towards core skills and key learning areas. Also, it has not been modified in over 20 years, and everything in life is steady transitioning, becoming more effective in the real world. Going through grades 1-12, allows students to accept the fact that life continues to get more stressful, but does not realize the learning concepts are not beneficial in the real world. Schools do not prepare students for life in the real world, how well it fits in with other policies and strategies, and Should there be a National Curriculum; these are questions everyone asks.…
The Journal of College Admission demonstrated that homeschooled students are more successful grade and retention wise at a four year college institution also. The main reason parents choose to home school their child is the concern for the public school environment, and duly coming in second is dissatisfaction with academic instruction (Non Public Education in the U.S). Considering this data, parents often wonder how it could be possible that a homeschooled environment, that is usually condemned as seclusion, could provide academics that are much more satisfactory than public…
Homeschooling, also known as home education, involves the education of children at home instead of receiving education at a traditional private or public school. According to Bauman (2011), many students are schooled at home and the number in the United States is growing at 15 to 20 percent per year. It is a system in which parents prefer their children to be educated at home and argue that it is more beneficial for them. There are those who advocate homeschooling, while there are some skeptics about homeschooling as well. Homeschooling is becoming very popular and many see it as being a bad idea due to the fact that teachers in traditional schools are better qualified due to years of training, the child’s socialization skills will be negatively…
This successfully proves that homeschooling curriculum does reach the standards of public school curriculum. In 2005, the National Home of Education Research Institute revealed that homeschooled students were repeatedly scoring as well or higher on standardized tests compared to public schools…
Home Schooling has been out of the public’s eye and with it growing in the past decade, I decided I would bring a new spotlight onto the subject. Through this long journey many new ideas and views have been brought to the eyes of the readers. When I first started writing this paper I was very one minded on the subject of homeschooling. The first time I started asking questions I thought to myself all these people do is just sit on their couch and do nothing but watch tv. They are just antisocial people that say away from the public because they are scared of being in awkward situations.…
They can learn by going on vacation with their families, or leaving their house in general. They also may move from place to place because of a parent’s job, which is the main reason those parents decide to homeschool. “ [Speaking on behalf of her children] Life is a learning experience, so there’s always something to discover” (Mom Prepares). Public school students very rarely have this opportunity. Being that homeschooled students are more than likely the only students, they have a wide range of possibilities for different ways to learn, one of them being leaving their usual classroom.…
Component one – Critical Reflection Within the teaching domain it is the teacher that controls the learning space, that is, the teacher manages the interactions within the class ensuring that the learning outcomes for the students are met. The students are affected by the teacher and the enacted curriculum. The curriculum is created and designed by organisations such as the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) or the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. This component discusses how knowing the students, affects their learning as well as looking at the interactions of the Teacher, Students and their learning. Data was collected from this class across several areas, previous results, subject pre-test and in class observations.…
Choosing a Different Path This point leads me into just what types of homeschool styles are there and what does the curriculum look like. Homeschooling is individual for each family, and a lot of times individual to each child in that family, because we all do not learn the same way. What is working for one, might work for another. To answer this question there are some typical terms you’ll hear when looking into homeschooling.…
Although, homeschooling and public schooling have some similarities, they have many drastic differences, and for homeschooling to work, a parent must be conscious of his responsibility in providing a structured and well-rounded education. Families embrace homeschooling over public school for a variety of reasons, and several reasons continue to ascend as trends. Homeschooling can provide a different vision for families educating their kids, but it is important that the parents are educated first. Most families who have decided to home school are families that are in favor of mastery and lifetime learning. Most parents attended public schools themselves and became masters at the “cram, test, dump” method (Courtney).…