The popularity of homeschooling has never been higher. More parents are choosing to home school their children than ever before and this has also led to certain styles and models or homeschooling. One term which recently came to my notice was “Eclectic Homeschooling”. Here is what this new term is all about.
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What is eclectic homeschooling?
Eclectic Homeschooling is not a style of homeschooling like Classical or Monterrey. Neither is is a typical method of homeschooling such as lectures, or unschooling. It is in fact nothing like a philosophy or custom of homeschooling. It is simply the practice of picking the best and most helpful of resources out of all that are available to a homeschooling parent. So if you have been sifting through material and using the best out of what you have, you are already using this technique.
How do you become an eclectic homeschooler?
This is fairly simple. You can build your classes based on the individual interests of the child whom you are teaching. Then you can pick and choose from all the resources available to you before you decide what you will cover with the child and how you will teach him. If there are some parts of the resource that you feel your child will find difficult or boring you simply don’t touch on those parts. You keep the topic interesting by using multiple resources from your stock. Of course this will involve a fair amount of research on your part. You can get a lot of help from other homeschooling families in your community or even in online forums.
Helping others as you were helped
Naturally it would help if you shared what you did with your child so that other parents get an idea of what they can do with their material and resources. You can work with another homeschooling parent to jointly develop material that both of you can use for your respective children. You can share the individualized teaching plan that you made for your child and find that when you exchange plans with others you suddenly have a host of new ideas that you can use.
Article Inspiration: About Homeschooling
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It is helpful to find things that actually work. One can spend a lot of money to no effect. The best place to start is the child, then the internet, etc etc. It will all unfold.I can help guide parents as I have over thirty years experience as a teacher from birth to fourteen. My particular expertise is literacy and maths.