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  • The Heart of Homeschooling

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      We all know that education should begin at home and the parents must embrace the role of being the educator in the lives of their own children. If a child grew up without discipline and lack of good morals, parents should be the one to blame.  Parents are the first teachers of children. They are responsible in instilling the values, disciplining the kids, and shaping for their morals. This is the harsh reality of becoming a parent. You become responsible to your family especially to your children's educational future and emotional development. Teaching your child appropriate values is not an easy job but this is one of the most important things that you can contribute to your child's development. You don't have a choice but to do the best that you can to become efficient in instilling good values to your kids. The attitude and learning of the children reflects the home where they were raised. All parents want to ensure that they provide the best education for their children. And for them the best way to do it is through homeschooling. Many parents today choose to do home-school to become hands-on on the education of their children. According to paper writers of rushessay.com, a service-provider of professional academic writing, some parents choose to start a classroom at home because they become very idealistic. They think that their kids would enjoy their childhood education if they could learn at home. The children will be free from school stress and not easily influenced by other people around them. Parent teachers would nurture the love of learning more. These thoughts are partly true. Homeschooling has positive advantages both to parents and the kids. Implementing it in your household can be a good idea but before you indulge yourself into it you must learn and understand the heart of homeschooling. The heart of homeschooling means having a heart for your children. More than anything else, you choose to do home school because you care for your children's learning. You love your son and daughter unconditionally and you always want the best for them. You want them to get enough or full individual attention. You want to design appropriate curriculum that will enhance their skills and talents. You want them to be focus more on learning and studying. You want to establish core beliefs and good values in them and you can only achieve all these things through homeschooling. Starting a home education is a big risk. You have to know that you cannot just begin doing it without proper preparation. Homeschooling is not a simple activity. As a parent, you have to identify first the method of discipline that you will choose in teaching your children. Plan about the things or tools that you will use in educating your kids. Have you planned the curriculum that best suits your children's personality? Are you aware about the learning styles that you can use? If you think that you are not ready yet to begin your classroom at the comfort of your home, I suggest that you seek help from people who have done it or implementing the process to their children, attend workshops and training about homeschooling, and read articles, essays, guides, or books that will help you understand clearly on how to do home school.
    Homeschooling is not easy. Doing all the educational materials, lesson plans, teaching, etc. is not an easy job. Some parents are having problems in implementing homeschooling curriculum to their children especially when they don't have sufficient background in teaching. So what they do is they ask help or rely to tutors to help them in providing additional teaching in some academic areas that they can't able to explain well to their kids. Homeschooling tutors are the same with academic tutors its just that their main focus were those home schooled students. See? Homeschooling is not impossible to achieve. There are skilled people who have advanced knowledge and has teaching experience that can help your kids in attaining good and quality education at home.

  • The Road to Success is Paved with Many Mistakes

    Mistakes teach. Some students learn quickly from them, while others, well, not so much. In either case, learning is an individual process of making a mistake, recognizing it, and remembering not to repeat the same one. As tutors, our job is to encourage students to forge ahead in spite of a mistake, knowing that learning and success live just around the corner.
    More often than not, students equate a mistake with failure. And why wouldn’t they? In the classroom, a mistake means a lower grade, and grades indicate a student’s proximity to success. But what if mistakes—rather than grades—were considered the stepping-stones toward success?
    As a writing tutor, I have the luxury of not assigning grades. My focus is helping students become better writers, not merely getting better grades. Let’s say, for example, one of my students is writing an essay for English class. I read the essay, point out mistakes and make comments, and return the essay to the student for rewriting. This back-and-forth process continues until we both agree that the paper is a success! Thus, students are not demoralized by their mistakes, but rather are motivated toward success as they correct mistakes.
    Moreover, if students begin to think of mistakes as tools to enable rather than demoralize, then they will be more inclined to share their mistakes. Students do not necessarily need to make a mistake in order to learn from it. They can learn from each other’s mistakes if the stigma of making a mistake is removed.
    In conclusion, mistakes are unavoidable in school as in life. What is avoidable, however, is the perspective that mistakes are linked to failure. To the contrary, they lead to success. Make a mistake. Learn from it. Share what is learned. Spread success.
    Diane Calmenson is a writing tutor in Dallas, TX, helping students succeed on their college application essays. She is also the co-founder of www.ConfideInU.com, an online community where college students and grads can anonymously share their experiences and learn from those that others confide.
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