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Am I Qualified to Teach My Own? |
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Gary Grammar |
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The differences in teaching a classroom full of children and one's own children are marked. This article discusses how the love and attention from one's own parent can make all the difference and why a home-teaching parent has a clear advantage over the school teacher. |
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Am I Really Qualified to Teach My Own Children? |
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Richard J. Prystowsky |
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Addresses some of the psychological and spiritual concerns raised by this question within the context of links between parent-child teaching and holistic family living. Focuses on the bond between parent and child and how this relationship is conducive to a positive learning experience. |
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Home Schooling Mom as Teacher |
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Elaine Ernst Schneider |
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This article explores some of the challenges of reinventing your role as mother into teacher. |
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Home Schooling: An Overview |
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Since home schools vary from home to home, it is impossible to say what will work for all parents who choose to home school their children. There are however, some basic keys to creating a successful environment for home schooling.
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I Can't Because... |
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These are great responses for when someone says, "I couldn't homeschool because..." |
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Preparing to Be a Homeschool Father |
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Steve Wood |
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Homeschooling is a family affair. This article briefly discusses some of the issues a father preparing to homeschool should consider. |
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The Lost Tools of Learning |
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Dorothy Sayers |
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Is not the great defect of our education today that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils "subjects," we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think: they learn everything, except the art of learning. Dorothy Sayers authored this essay in 1947, discussing a classical approach to education, with the recommendation to adopt a modified version of the medieval scholastic curriculum. |
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The Parent-Teacher Conference |
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Miranda Hughes |
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A homeschooling mother has a one-on-one meeting with herself. You'll chuckle as you read about the ways homeschool learning differs from classroom learning and how kids thrive while learning at home. |
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Yes, Virginia, You CAN Homeschool Without a College Degree! |
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VaHomeschoolers.org |
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The Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers received several calls and e-mails from worried parents about homeschooling in Virginia after news reports and e-mails from other organizations created a mistaken impression that it is illegal for parents without college degrees to homeschool children in Virginia. Nothing could be further from the truth. |
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