- Question: Would you like to share how you work with the scope and sequence (and textbook) to make your home-school more efficient?
- Answer: To make your home-school more efficient, it means that you need to know:
- what is your plan that you want to teach?
- what do your kids want to be in the future?
- what do your kids love to learn the most?
- and what is the best method of teaching for your kids?
We should also remember that we do not want our kids to be fed up with a lot of learning materials that our kids does not need. The most important is that our kids love toward learning in their daily life everyday.
- Question: I know you accelerate, so I assume you don't do *ALL*, right?
- Answer: We do focus on what the kids need to learn and like the most everyday. They also need to learn other subjects once or twice a week not everyday. This is a way to make them easy and love to learn everyday not getting bored. We also have a break in between school year, having field trips, having a class outside, etc.
- Question: You pick and choose, and then move on if your child is understanding, right?
- Answer: We let the kids decide which textbook that the kids think easy and understand to learn for them. Sometime, they learn without we are asking them to learn it. The most important is to keep communicating with them what they like to learn and we give support with all the learning materials and the activities they need.
Yes of course, if they understand then they will continue to the next level.
- Question: Which subject do you use as an anchor as to what level your children is? Is it math and language?
- Answer: We need to teach all the subjects (Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Study, and Electives). The children need to learn all that subjects which will be presented to Board of Education in the portfolio meeting.
- Question: How do you know your children have reached a level where they'll be okay to attend a CC? I assume at a level equivalent to 9th-10th grade?
- Answer: To know the kids are ready for college, you should see their academic skill and their maturity.
We do not want to see our kids immature in the class to handle their own problem in the class, with the home-works load, the classmate with different ages, the materials that being taught for adult, etc.
For academic skill, I always wait until when they are in the same level of 11 or 12 grade.
- Question: And does it guarantee a transfer to a 4 year univ?
- Answer: If your kids are taking classes in Community College, then your kids and you should have to plan a head before applying the community college and which 4-years university that your kids will transfer to. The best way is always asking to the admission office to know what the requirements are. By doing so, It will help you and your kids to choose and decide which all the courses are transferable to that university where your kids will attend.
I hope my answers will help you.
You also have to remember that each family has different way of homeschooling their children. My home-school may not working for your family and others.
Your home-school may not working for me and others, too.
Because every family is unique.
Have a Happy Homeschooling....
