My Point Of View On Benefits Of Homeschooling
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Guest Post
First lets try to comprehend the reasons we would want David and Karen to learn at home instead going to public schools. Starting with some superficial reasons, you do not have to get up at 6:00 am in the morning and get them dressed for school, pack the lunches, give them all your normal instructions and wait for them to get home hoping everything went well that day at school.
Some say that we learn by doing. This seems especially true for young children. To teach youngsters we can’t merely hand them a book with printed information and expect them to absorb the knowledge. Instead we must design activity-based lessons. The idea sounds simple at first, but when we think about its practical application it sounds more daunting. But early childhood lesson plans don’t have to be some intricate complex design that only the most educated among us can create. We were all children once. We just need a few basic things to get us started. Let’s examine a few items we need to have in place before we begin to share knowledge with youngsters.
High stakes assessment is the term used to describe tests where the test taker faces an important outcome depending on the results of the test. Common examples of these tests include performance tests that determine whether a student can proceed to the next grade, an assessment test that determines whether a student is eligible for acceptance at a school or university, or a test to determine whether someone deserves a particular certificate or license, such as a medical license or admission of a lawyer to a state bar. The tests come in a variety of forms. The form that most of us are familiar with, the standardized test, often use multiple-choice questions. In standardized tests all examinees are presented with the same number of questions, and the goal of the test is often to determine how the examinee rates compared to all other people taking the same test. High stakes assessment tests have supporters and detractors. So what are the pros and cons of these tests that have such an impact on all our lives?
Dr Aric Sigman paints a grim picture in his book, “Remotely Controlled” how over exposure to media and particularly television, is detrimentally affecting our lives. Most importantly, he details how that affect is significant for the young.
Sometimes when we endeavor to learn about our children’s education and how best to foster it we encounter concepts about methods of teaching or learning that at first seem difficult to understand. And, to be honest, some of those concepts continue to be difficult for many of us to comprehend. The notion of student learning styles, the idea that not every person learns in the same way or at the same rate, is one of those philosophical notions about education that isn’t easy for all of us to readily grasp. So let’s take a minute and see if we can make sense of this idea of student learning styles.