Home Schooling: Tailoring education to your child

[Shiroi Tora]

First, I realize not all families, for a variety of reasons, cannot home school. For those who can...the gains will be tremendous. There are a some great home schooling programs out there....we use Plato as my son's (9 yrs. old - Aspie / Profoundly Gifted) main teaching platform. We supplement with other computer / Internet based teaching programs as well as through books / workbooks - DVD courses. The courses are self paced and have micro tests as well as comprehensive ones. The micro tests are so important as it ensures mastery of concepts before allowing one to go on. I have more information on the supplementary programs on my blog at my signature.

You may fit the pace and courses to your child's strengths and weaknesses. There are no distractions or stress. True learning may take place. The Plato learning system is accredited for use for home schooled children and is used by many gifted students. They have it from K-6th / and from 6th - 12th.

Many Aspies will learn so much more and much more quickly at home. We are having great success with them. My son LOVES home schooling. He gets his socialization through structured play times and through sports. He is so happy - and he is learning so much more.

 

[tree]

There were several Homeschooling threads started.
None seem to have flourished.

2E Child (Twice Exceptional - Autistic / Profoundly Gifted): A Double Mother's Day - Alex And His Mother / Me And Mine

 

[epath13]

First, I realize not all families, for a variety of reasons, cannot home school. For those who can...the gains will be tremendous. There are a some great home schooling programs out there....we use Plato as my son's (9 yrs. old - Aspie / Profoundly Gifted) main teaching platform. We supplement with other computer / Internet based teaching programs as well as through books / workbooks - DVD courses. The courses are self paced and have micro tests as well as comprehensive ones. The micro tests are so important as it ensures mastery of concepts before allowing one to go on. I have more information on the supplementary programs on my blog at my signature.

You may fit the pace and courses to your child's strengths and weaknesses. There are no distractions or stress. True learning may take place. The Plato learning system is accredited for use for home schooled children and is used by many gifted students. They have it from K-6th / and from 6th - 12th.

Many Aspies will learn so much more and much more quickly at home. We are having great success with them. My son LOVES home schooling. He gets his socialization through structured play times and through sports. He is so happy - and he is learning so much more.

I've been thinking about homeschooling but I don't think that in my case it would be such a good idea, for variety of reasons. I might consider it later, but at the moment - it's a definite "no".
I know a few people who homeschool, but I never really talked to them about college and future employment. what are your college and employment goals?

 

[tree]

The kids I know who were homeschooled got GEDs. Then they went to college.
At college they discovered that the way they were taught at home gave them skills that were
superior to the kids who went to school.

Simple skills like "looking it up" and "showing all the work" and "doing it over."

 

[epath13]

I'm getting a little sad now... one of my kids (the nonverbal one) is an extrovert, he enjoys being around other kids all day... my oldest son... he doesn't really know what he'd prefer. And I'm feeling like I could do much more for them. I wish I was a shiny new jeep or something like that, but I feel like a clunker... and I'm only 3... was it 6 or 7? Don't remember I'm feeling like I'm failing my kids... or maybe it's just migraine speaking... I guess I shouldn't compare our path with other people's one, everyone has its own... but somehow almost every time homeschooling patents talk about their achievements I do feel sad...

 

[tree]

I'm getting a little sad now... one of my kids (the nonverbal one) is an extrovert, he enjoys being around other kids all day... my oldest son... he doesn't really know what he'd prefer. And I'm feeling like I could do much more for them. I wish I was a shiny new jeep or something like that, but I feel like a clunker... and I'm only 3... was it 6 or 7? Don't remember I'm feeling like I'm failing my kids... or maybe it's just migraine speaking... I guess I shouldn't compare our path with other people's one, everyone has its own... but somehow almost every time homeschooling patents talk about their achievements I do feel sad...

What do you like doing with them?
What do they like doing?

"Homeschool" doesn't have to mean buy a curriculum.
Home school is having school at home, however you do it with whatever you use.

The girl next door is homeschoolilng her four children.
She was quite happy yesterday when I brought her a bag of baby food lids
(the kind with animal faces on them)
for her kids to play matching games with.
They started using them right there on the floor while their mother and I talked
about the bear that had been in her yard last week.

I have only had 2 migraines with pain (and puking.) All the rest are scotoma, and usually in the summer.

 

[epath13]

What do you like doing with them?
What do they like doing?

"Homeschool" doesn't have to mean buy a curriculum.
Home school is having school at home, however you do it with whatever you use.

The girl next door is homeschoolilng her four children.
She was quite happy yesterday when I brought her a bag of baby food lids
(the kind with animal faces on them)
for her kids to play matching games with.
They started using them right there on the floor while their mother and I talked
about the bear that had been in her yard last week.

I have only had 2 migraines with pain (and puking.) All the rest are scotoma, and usually in the summer.

I can do anything with them and make it fun, unfortunately I get tired and overwhelmed quickly. I can't tolerate any loud noise for prolonged period of time, and I don't want to tell my kids to be quiet, especially to nonverbal one because I want him to make as many sounds as posdible and try to say words, letters, anything as frequently as possible. I loose focus quickly as well. I can complain as much as I want, it's not going to solve anything. I'm just trying to do the best I can and hoping to manage all my symptoms better soon...

 

[tree]

I can do anything with them and make it fun, unfortunately I get tired and overwhelmed quickly. I can't tolerate any loud noise for prolonged period of time, and I don't want to tell my kids to be quiet, especially to nonverbal one because I want him to make as many sounds as posdible and try to say words, letters, anything as frequently as possible. I loose focus quickly as well. I can complain as much as I want, it's not going to solve anything. I'm just trying to do the best I can and hoping to manage all my symptoms better soon...

I didn't think you were complaining.

Making sounds can be fun, for sure.
I like the 'say the same thing' activity.
Either I copy the kid, or I make a sound for him to repeat.

Like he says 'wu'--I say 'wu.'
He says 'wu'--maybe I say...'wu wu.'

Or if I am the starter then it could go this way...
Me: Beeb
Him: Beeb
Me: Beeb beeb
Him: Beeb beeb
Me: Bab
Him: Bab
Me: Beeb Bab
etc.

When they are old enough/able to use crayons/pencils/markers, I like
making pages for them to do.

I like making books, too, using labels from food we eat or
pictures from shopping flyers of stuff that looks like our things.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

I am completely in favor of home schooling; the public system's become so corrupted by political correctness and laziness, its just nuts. I wish I'd been given that kind of education; it would've saved me tons of stress from too many subjects and near-constant bullying. I lost count of how many times I wound up in the nurse's office, during a 2-year period in junior high alone.