Advantages and disadvantages.
As with any system, home education has advantages and disadvantages. Here are some of them.
- Home education meets all the needs of an individual. It adapts itself to the child, and does not force the baby to overcome the stress associated with changes in life.
- Home education allows you to choose the stress, accents, approaches to various subjects, which is almost impossible in a typical school.
- Home education allows you to develop the talents and abilities of your child.
- Since the attention of teachers is focused on one student, they have the opportunity to better assess its successes.
- Home education helps you to learn how to deal with certain problems yourself, because you have to extract some of the information yourself.
- Home education helps the child to orient in choosing a future profession and make the right deviation in time.
- At home, the child is limited in communication, which adversely affects his ability to socialize.
- A child does not learn to overcome difficulties, does not see competition, can not adequately assess his abilities.
- If you do not plan a very closed way of life for your child, in the course of time he may have difficulties in communicating at an older age - at the institute, at work.
- It is known that the closest friends appear exactly in school years, the home child may not have them at all.
- Restrictions inevitable in home education, indulge in infantilism. The child grows much more slowly than other peers.
How to choose teachers.
It is worthwhile to understand that home education is an expensive pleasure, because you, in fact, will have to hire tutors for each subject, none of which can not be thrown out, even physical education. Otherwise, the child simply does not receive a certificate. If your child does not have special abilities, and you do not have time to help him in his studies, he will not master the school curriculum himself. Therefore, the choice of teachers should be approached very responsibly.
You should be sure not only in the professional, but also in the human qualities of the teacher. Home education does not imply control by various bodies, except for rare examinations at the school, which will need to be handled at least once a year. If you are not ready to leave the child alone with the teacher for the whole day, then this is not the person you need.
The teacher should adequately assess the strengths and weaknesses of your child's knowledge.
In addition, teachers should not engage in homework with the child. Part of the work should remain for the independent decision, therefore you will have to control the quality of its execution.
Teacher is not the same as a housekeeper. Do not try to load the teacher with other worries. In his competence is only education, and shopping and cleaning up leave for yourself or hire an assistant.
In fact, there is no such law that would necessarily require the teaching of a child by professional teachers. The task of home education is qualitative knowledge that will be tested in the course of school certification. If you are sure that you know something well enough, you can also do it with your child. To do this, it is worth checking with the school curriculum and following the requirements that it sets.
Home school.
Studying at home allows the child to feel more at ease. This is good and bad. At school there are certain requirements to the appearance of students, there are special rooms for classes, equipment. At home schooling you will have to equip one of the rooms of the apartment to the real class.
The child should have a table and chair corresponding to his age and height. There must be a board, chalk, a place for the teacher. It is not permissible for a child to go to school in pajamas or street clothes, even if he only needs to go to the next room. Start a special form, which the kid would wear exclusively for classes. Make sure that the lighting in the room meets the standards.
Spend the time so that the child's lessons alternate with rest. Individual education allows you to make the classes shorter or longer, but there must be changes. Proceed from the characteristics of the child, adjust to it and change the duration of the classes with its development.
Do not forget about necessary medical examinations, vaccinations, tests and exams. The goal of home education is not only knowledge, but also a certificate that will be given only if the child meets the established standards.
Of course, which way of education to choose, it is up to the parents. But it would be nice to start from the real needs of the child. If the baby is healthy, sociable, mobile, gets along well with other children and dreams about the school, is it worth to deprive him of the opportunity to study in the team, even if the school system seems imperfect? A painful, withdrawn child is more likely to feel better at home. But in this case, try to make extra classes and circles give him the opportunity to communicate and make friends. Then education will benefit, it does not matter whether it is home or standard.