homeschool techniquesHelping a child learn easily can become much easier when the homeschool teacher pays attention to which teaching technique seems to work best on the homeschool student. All human beings do not assimilate new material in the brain in the exact same manner. Some people learn better when they read the book themselves, while other find it easier when someone else reads out the book aloud to them. These are three teaching techniques that can help your homeschooled student to learn their lessons faster.

Visual Learning

The homeschool student who prefers to read the book himself, will also find it much nicer to learn through diagrams and flow charts. These children need to be in control of the stimulus that is being provided to their brain. They will often read a paragraph and then go over it again in order to figure out something that they did not understand. They also respond well to videos.

Verbal Learning

Sound plays an important part of learning for these homeschool students. They tend to register things better when they hear it spoken aloud. Even when they are asked to read a lesson in a book, they have a tendency to read it out loud to themselves. These children learn nursery rhymes and songs that they listen to really quickly and if you want them to learn a new lesson you should probably read it out aloud to them.

Repetition is the Key

With children repetition is the key to real learning. By making the child repeat something new that has been taught, he will be more likely to remember it. According to your child’s temperament he may want to re-read something right away, or may not want to look at it at all till the next day. You know what kind of repetition will work best with your homeschool student and should apply it.

Your teaching techniques have to stay flexible as the way your child learns will also change as he grows older. The trick is to keep switching things around to find what works best for your homeschool classroom.