Their limited understanding based on the classroom model is only one slice of the pizza that could be called Education.
Because it’s a huge responsibility to
take on the education of your children yourself, instead of delegating
it to a school, new homeschoolers very often choose a very highly
structured curriculum package which is very like what they experienced
at school.
What they are in fact doing, is
replicating the school system at home and in most families it eventually causes much stress, strife, heart-ache and burn-out!
In 16 years of homeschooling, we have
found that one of the biggest challenges for homeschooling parents is to
break away from the model of education that we received in school as
this is not the model of pedagogy (teaching) that works best in the
homeschool scenario.
You see, once we take our children out of school, we have to take the school out of the children…
…as well as 12 years of schooling out of the parents, before it really starts to go well!
So what's the alternative?
Read about how to piece together your own customised curriculum using an
ECLECTIC approach.
Discover why so-called ELECTIVES might just be MISNAMED
ESSENTIALS.
Homeschool consultant, Martie du Plessis of Dynamis says:
Schools manage people, education changes hearts.
“Authentic education is where the
parent finds the best pathway to develop a child to the fullest, through
a network of people and resources. The pathway is determined by the
core elements in the child and therefore true development of people must
take into account how God has created the person. In this way the
parent or educators work with God to raise up godly people.” ~ Martie du Plessis, Education vs Certification
If true education involves equipping children for life, then there is no one-size-fits-all way to accomplish this!
Eclectic homeschooling, customised education, with specially selected electives is the way to develop our children to their fullest potential and to “light the fire” – the love for lifelong learning in our children.
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