Teaching a few children at home is just as demanding as teaching a classroom full of children in regular school. To ensure that you can deal with the presentation of material to your homeschool students it would be a good idea to have some tools to help in the homeschool classroom. Here is a list of suggestions regarding teaching aids.
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The Black / White Board
This teaching aid is a universally accepted tool in almost any classroom, be it school, college or specialized training institutes. The old black board and chalk would sometimes cause allergic reactions and be rather messy to clean up. Now its successor the white board is far more user-friendly. It would be a good idea to have one in the homeschool classroom to make a point visually appealing.
A Kitchen Timer
This simple device which can be set to 10, 20 or 30 minutes can help you save a whole lot of time in the school day. The children learn to finish the written worksheets in a timely manner, know how much time they have spent on eating their snack, and even how long a specific subject needs to be practiced. Once you have them focused on moving to the timer it will make it easier for you to partition your own work day with them. In case you don’t have a kitchen timer, just use the one in your cell phone. Almost all cell phones have one.
An Achievements and Rewards Board
On a simple chart paper that you pin up to the notice board or stick directly on to the wall of the homeschool classroom, keep a track of your child’s achievements in different subjects. Add some color coding like red for excellent, green for good and yellow for fair. It will be easier to motivate your child to do better in each subject as you mark their progress each week with a colored dot or star. You can also have corresponding rewards based on things that your child enjoys doing. Just don’t make the rewards anything edible. Its a far better idea to make it an activity that you two can do together.
Article Inspiration: About Homeschooling
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