Homeschooling Curriculum Choices
One of the biggest homeschooling advantage is curriculum choice. When talking about curriculum choices, it can actually be thought of in two ways: what is taught and how it is taught.
First, you have total control over the curriculum being taught – you select the desired curriculum, be it religious-based or not. From there, the freedom that homeschooling provides allows you to customize that curriculum to your child.
If your child loves everything about the sea, for example, you can tailor the curriculum all around the oceans and seas. Have math correspond to things about the ocean, from counting sharks for early elementary years, to calculating SCUBA dive time tables for older kids. If you really think about a subject, there are so many ways to incorporate several subjects.
The trick is finding something that grabs their interest and explore it as far as you can. You can incorporate in your child’s reading, dive into some history of the subject, perform science experiments around their interest! Who doesn’t love to learn about their passions?
Second, you decide how to teach your curriculum. After all, you know your child better than any teacher ever will. You know their strengths and weaknesses. Home schooling allows you to adjust the curriculum schedule to your child’s advantage – something that is just impossible in public schools.
If your child excels in the math concept you are teaching, but is having a hard time understanding a language arts concept, you can adjust their schedule to allow for more time on the struggling concept. Or, at the other end, while they are easily grasping a subject, delve deeper into that concept.
The freedom of your curriculum is just another of the great advantages of homeschooling, especially with children who are struggling in a subject – it is much easier to learn something if you are interested in something about it.
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