No matter what so ever the homeschoolers understand and follow about
the freedom and independent choices of homeschooling philosophy- it has to be
very logical and systematic in terms of implementation. The concept of
independent choices only doesn't mean to have succeeded in the homeschooling.
Besides, contextual understanding, rationalized planning, scheduling and the implementation of the adjustable environment as far needs a very essential part of it.
Thus, this short write up attempts to focus on some essential parts of homeschooling that will support and encourage the homeschoolers.
The following suggestions may be noted for homeschoolers.
1. The familiarity of technical knowledge and skills:
Technical knowledge and skills talk about what you know and how you go
about it. If we look at the profile of homeschoolers, it is rare to be noticed
such competencies since homeschooling is informal and un-institutional.
But, it doesn't mean that they can't proceed to homeschool. Definitely, they
can home school.
Homeschoolers may prepare themselves by gathering various sources such
as subscription to the Guided homeschooling program, subscription to 'home
schooling today', visiting a library, reading books and discussing with peers who
are also homeschooling. This much of enquiry and dedications would empower the
homeschoolers in a micro and macro level in terms of proceeding their own home
schooling successfully.
2. Exploration and experience:
It is important that you have a connection with the like-minded homeschooling groups, it’s not necessary that you should have face to face
meetings. It will be good at least to go with Whatsapp group, Google classroom,
Zoom meetings etc. Sinking to the ground reality to have profound knowledge and
skills for the real practices of real education is a significant aspect.
Moreover, good actionable strategic skills are fully embedded with more
realistic experiences that comes up justifying the assumption and imaginations.
In the homeschooling context, it is possibly imagined to have the coordination in
various homeschooling settings that allows homeschoolers to have a specific
technical understanding. Moreover, you may come to the effective conclusion
that would help with designing appropriate activities. Thus, linking with
other groups of homeschooling is highly recommended.
3. Selection of curriculum:
Selection of appropriate curriculum for every homeschooler always not
the easy task. It is recommended to choose most appropriate curriculum
activities for homeschooling from various reputed online sources, eg, teacher
store, Flinto Box, education.com etc. Or you can also register with homeschooling organisations such as NIOS (National Institute of Open schooling)
which is a reputed Government organisation in India.
4. Organize homeschooling materials:
Dealing with children is tougher and requires more early childhood development knowledge, compared to dealing with adults in an educational context. So, the homeschooling environment should be able to
facilitate as far as children's needs are considered. Considering this fact, various types of activity
materials, workbooks, computer with internet access, indoor games etc. are
organized and facilitated logistically.
5. Target the goals:
Targeting the homeschooling goals is always a scientific-based approach
as a child's education is psychological and scientific. Despite, subject-based
teaching, holistic developmental domain-based must be focused more. So,
activities related to physical, mental, social and life skills to be designed. In a nutshell, the child's, body, heart, mind
and soul should integrate with each other and develop.
The article is published as part of a series of articles on homeschooling. By visiting our homeschooling page, you can read all the connected articles.
The above article is a reflection from the below article. Please
Click the link to explore the above reflection in detail from an external site.
Reflection is contributed by:
Satyasing Mushahary
An Alumni of Azim Premji University (2014-16)
Consultant @ CLLF