You can get the bare bones of your own homeschool program set up based on the required learning for your child’s grade level. Once you know what needs to be taught in the homeschool classroom for the academic session, you can adjust your lesson plans and make your own homeschool program. Given here are some practical tips to get you started.
Outline the Subject wise Topics
In every subject you will need to write down the main topics that need to be taught. Now based on your homeschool student’s aptitude and interest you can decide just how many classes you are going to devote to each of the topics. You will need to structure a basic class to teach them about the topic, a follow up class to test them on how well they understood the material and a final class to help them overcome a challenge based on the topic. This is the bones of the topic wise teaching, you can flesh it up as required.
Gather Your Resources
Needless to say, one of the reasons why you are designing your own homeschool program is to save some money. So instead of buying a ready made homeschool curriculum you are going to spend some time putting together a list of resources that you plan to use. Again its a good idea to add the names of the books, the video channels, the website urls, etc. to the main topics list that you have outlined previously. This will allow you to add material to the main paper as you discover new resources, as well as easy retrieval of resources as and when you need to use them.
Integrating the Fun Angle
As the homeschool parent you are going to be directly responsible for your child’s attitude towards learning. This means that you have to ensure that your homeschool classroom is a fun place where the students learn with smiles on their faces. This is easy to do if you can add a game to each topic you plan on teaching. So once in three classes your child gets to play an educational game that he actually enjoys. Please use online gaming sites if they fit in with the topic, or design a pen and paper game they can play. Just keep it fun.
