Gaps in education occur no matter where your child has been schooled. Do you think regular school manages to get all the education ever required crammed in to the heads of their students? It is not possible for each homeschool student to be taught everything they would possibly need to know in the future by the parent. So accept that gaps in their education will occur. However what is important is providing tools in the homeschool classroom which allow your children to cover these gaps when they require.
Introduce them to different tools
Take any gap you come across and ask yourself where would you find out more about this topic? An easy way to get details today is to go online. However suppose the internet is unavailable, how would you find out more about the topic of interest? Challenge your homeschool students to make a list of possible resources or people that they could use to find out more about the topic.
Now follow up on each tool individually
Once the list is ready decide how you will tackle finding out more information. Will you go to the library and get books, will you meet a real life person who will be able to help you. Set it up so that each item on the list that they have made is actually visited. Ask them which of the whole lot was the most helpful in gaining knowledge about the topic. Make them understand that not all resources are equal and that for different topics different resources may be more useful.
Let them record what they have picked up
The true measure of how much a homeschool student had picked up about a topic can be found in how they discuss it afterwards. Have them either write a report on what they picked up or maybe make a video speaking about what all the topic is about. Let them apply the new found knowledge in a real world example if possible. Give them a project that allows them to showcase how they have covered the education gap which they uncovered. This allows you to see how they have progressed.
