Why Do Some Home Schooling Families Buy Lesson Plans? Buying a lesson plan from a specialist education company is another option for families considering beginning teaching a home education, since starting to teach from scratch, as well as organising and choosing a curriculum to follow (an educational route that some [...]
This article looks at how home schooling students and their parents can put together a home study timetable, which can help to create a feeling of organised study as well as helping students to succeed at achieving good grades and exam results if studying for a qualification. What are the [...]
Many new home schooling families are surprised to find that there are no laws or regulations in place through Government Acts like the Education Act regarding the curricula that children who are experiencing home schooling need to undertake. In addition, the same is true of Local Education Authorities, (LEAs) and [...]
For some home schooling families, the National Curriculum has no impact on their home learning and home teaching - because, by law, it does not have to have any role in a home education. Home schooling comes under the bracket of the Education Act which refers to provision for 'education [...]
What are Lesson Plans and How are they Used in Home Schooling? A lesson plan is a structured document that breaks down a subject's curriculum into bite sized chunks that show how to help a child to understand and relate to a topic's information within a particular time period objective [...]
Getting started as a home school teacher can feel intimidating; parents often feel particularly apprehensive about teaching subjects that they themselves struggled with at school, often including maths or science. Once you have researched the advantages and disadvantages of home schooling, and looked at how to do so (the practical [...]
One of the chief benefits of home schooling is the individualised attention a child receives from his or her parent (or tutor, or grandparent, etc.) which is usually in contrast to a school environment with twenty or more students in a class and a low teacher or teaching assistant ratio. [...]
