"Homeschooling that invites private tutors, do you?"
"Homeschooling that join study club, right?"
"His parents were Homeschooling, right?"
That's roughly an overview of questions and answers that often I hear. Which answer is correct?
In my mind, the answer to the most approaching the third is the answer. Though, the answer is not too proper as it could have been a teacher in homeschooling parent, but must not be anyone. Therefore, homeschooling is a model of education where parents choose his own responsibility in organizing the education of her children.
In the more common conception, the term homeschooling or also commonly referred to by the term homeschool is not a foreign thing. The substance of homeschooling is quite widely known among adults. Therefore, the substance of homeschooling is a self-learning aka learned autodidact. Its activities similar to those made when adults looking for needed information.
As adults, we are not looking for information by way of the school. But, we seek information from sources anywhere that we can give you the answers we need. We asked the experts, consult with friends, go to a bookstore, read the literature, watching VCDs, come to the library, search the Internet, actively involved in the Forum, coming to seminars, courses, and so on. Anyway, we are looking for any source to which we can deliver according to the information/solutions to the things that we want to know/finish.
Well, actually the idea is homeschooling more or less the same as it was. Instead of learning in the school bench (educational material that is not necessarily needed by children), parents and kids actively involved to determine what-what he had learned. Children and parent who decide, not the teachers and the school system. If not satisfied with one method or source, kids can turn to other methods or sources.
Since departing from needs/interest in homeschooling a child, since small children learn independently; begin to recognize what relates to himself (strengths, weaknesses, interests, learning style), and other things that exist in the vicinity. Inevitably, a well-trained child will find himself something he needed. Of course there will be a hierarchy of types, ranging up to the strict independence of mentoring children in identifying their needs and looking for a source of knowledge/skills that respond to their needs.
Of course the process to become an independent or a self-taught learner is not a thing that is instant and easy. But precisely where the challenge. Once the child can be independent and skilled in the process of their learning, the child will grow and adapt to all life issues faced.
That's the fun homeschooling!
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