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What If Homeschooling High School Isn’t Working?
One of the advantages of homeschooling is the freedom to make changes when things aren’t working. With high school, remember that if it works you use it. If it doesn’t work, then stop using it and try something else.
Another major theme: You don’t have to teach. They just need to learn. You don’t necessarily have to teach ANYTHING in high school, you only have to make sure your children learn it. I didn’t know the answers to a lot of the math or science. You’d think I would because I’m a nurse, but it’s not true! I completely lost it with math about a month into Algebra 2. Everyone loses it in high school math – everyone. But, again, it’s not our job to learn the stuff. We just have to make sure our student learns the stuff.
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Closing the Distance in Distance Learning
Closing the Distance in Distance Learning
Distance Learning is one of those concepts that seems to mean different things to different people. At its most basic level, Distance Learning is no more than learning about something without moving out of your office or home. Someone, somewhere, sends you materials by post and you’re expected to wade through it and tackle the various assignments. You might have access to a tutor or adviser but, there again, you might not.
In today’s hi-tech, computerised world, emails and the internet have taken the place of the postman so, at the very least, you can expect to access your learning materials faster, whether they arrive by email or you access them through an internet site. You’re also likely to find out, maybe by return email, that you’ve failed your assignment, giving you plenty of time to have another go before the deadline expires.
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History of Education, Teacher Training, Teaching, Teachers
A Concise History of Education of Teachers, of Teacher Training and Teaching
Western history of teacher training, education history, teaching theories, education of teachers, modern history od education, began in early 18th century Germany: teaching seminaries educating teachers were the first formal teacher training in Western history of education and teaching.
(History of education had 2nd century-BC Greek Spartan free public education, Athenian Academy until age 18 and higher Academy and Lyceum; Roman private formal schooling in tiers; China’s 1st century-BC administrator examinations; 1st century Jewish informal Cul’ Tura general education; Islam’s 9th century universities [madrasahs]; 16th century Aztec mandatory teen education; 18th century Russian nation-wide education, Poland’s Education Ministry, Chez ‘teacher of nations’ Comenius’s ‘Didactica Magna’ on universal education [compulsory, certified teachers, tests]; leading later Western history of education –17th century Scotland’s free education, 18th’s Norway’s mandatory literacy and New Zealand’s standard education, 21st’s Europe’s Bologna process equalising educational qualifications.)
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