2011 March
Planning for a New Year
As we look ahead to the upcoming homeschool year, many of us are refining our goals, determining our courses of study, planning our schedules, and deciding on materials. No question – having a plan is essential to meeting our goals! When I have completed a schedule or written out our homeschool plans and goals, I feel like I’ve accomplished something. We should “count the cost” before taking on any endeavor. And it is good to plan, to have a vision, to know the direction in which we are going. But here are a few cautions I can pass along, based on personal experience!
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The Goal of Education?
Education has become hard to define. Everyone seems to have different expectations. Some want to see high test scores. Others want their children to be able to get a job. Others expect their children to be appropriately socially engineered.
Before we take on the task of homeschooling, we need to determine our expectations. And there is no greater issue to address than what it means to be properly “educated.”
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Overwhelmed By Choices
Are you planning for the next school year and finding yourself overwhelmed with choices? Then here is some good news. The curriculum choices you make will not determine the success or failure of your homeschool!
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Relationships: The Key to Mentoring
Many, if not most, of us grew up within a fragmented educational system. So, while we realize we want to provide better opportunities for our children – a stronger/deeper relationship with our Lord, a love of learning that fuels a lifetime of education, family ties that last throughout the years – we simply don’t know how.
The foundation of our homes whether from an educational point of view or otherwise, is relationships.
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