Once parents decide to step out of the norm of a regular private or public school and take matters of educating their children into their own hands, they don’t readily realize the huge task in front of them of transforming their homes into an environment conducive for learning. While a […]
Category: Home Schooling
Junior Year Is Critical for College Success
If your home-school student is interested in attending college, junior year is probably one of the most critical times for them to be on task. It’s the time when they should be looking for colleges, taking college prep tests, and honing their essay writing skills. Paying close attention during junior […]
Reasons Why You Should Hire Home Tutors For Your Child
Going to school with other children is perhaps the easiest way to educate a child in today’s busy society. This option is perfectly convenient for families, especially since a growing number of households may need both parents to work to supplement their incomes or they may have other responsibilities that […]
What You Should Know About Different Home Schooling Methods
Home schooling is not something fixed that has not changed over the years. It has changed and evolved because people try to make it fit their needs. That is why there has been several home schooling methods that have been created. Each method is appropriate for a certain situation and […]
Setting Up Your Homeschooling Room – Lighting Is Extremely Important
Perhaps you didn’t realize it but lighting in the classroom is a crucial part of learning. It was discovered through research that fluorescent lights, when they flicker, could cause severe challenges to students trying to learn. Often fluorescent lights are uneven as one wears out over time, this blinking causes […]
Home Schooling Topic – Community Colleges Looking Much More Attractive These Days
Indeed, when I was back in high school I always felt as if I was in a prison specially made for kids, it was boring, uneventful, and not very challenging, well, at least for me. What I really wanted to do was take the GED my sophomore year and go […]
How to Pick the Right Home Schooling Curriculum
Home schooling means a great deal of work, especially on the part of the parent who also needs to double as a teacher. You must find time to teach your kids and the level of teaching should be enough so that it would place your children at par with those […]
Crafting Great College Application Essays
Parents of high school seniors are easy to spot in January and February. They have a worried air about them, appear sleep deprived, and will correct your grammar compulsively. If you haven’t personally lived through the period in your high schooler’s life where they spend hours filling out college forms […]
How Can Parents Prepare Their Children for School
Teaching children in preschool is seen as one of the most challenging tasks in the fields of education and parenting. This is due to the fact that this is the time when the critical stage of learning occurs that encompasses the cognitive, motor, affective, and psychomotor domains. Parents would definitely […]
Homeschooling And Furniture Challenges In the Home
You may not consider ergonomics relevant to your child’s studies, but it is an important factor. If you are homeschooling your kids at home you might wish to consider what many educational researchers have discovered over the last good many decades. It matters, and it is important, so let’s talk […]