Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Thinking about homeschooling?

Step #1

Give yourself space to deal with your emotions away from criticism, challenge your own inner critic. If you need to stray away from the standard education format, this will be a necessary step eventually.

Step #2

Decide how you want to educate your child. Formal lessons, or life experiences? somewhere in between? a little bit of this and that? how on earth do we decide or label our inventiveness?

Step #3

Find out what the state/province's laws and regulations are about homeschooling. Meld your ideas and these rules together.

Preliminary Checklist:
  • review your child's latest records from the school
  • review your child's latest records from any therapists or specialists
  • immediately begin contacting those services to see what can be done for homeschooling (in most cases this is treated as a separate scenario altogether).
  • make sure you have informed the school and the school board
  • inform any other services that are involved, and don't be afraid to be loud about why.
  • prepare some school materials to start experimenting with lesson ideas and your child's skill set

Now Smile :)

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