HOMESCHOOLING NONE TRADITIONAL

HOME SCHOOLING ANOTHER NONE TRADITIONAL OPTIONSABREANA REESER

IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGEAPRIL 8, 2014

Standard #3 Learning Environments

THE TEACHER WORKS WITH OTHERS TO CREATE ENVIRONMENTS THAT SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING, AND THAT ENCOURAGES POSITIVE SOCIAL INTERACTION, ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN LEARNING, AND SELF- MOTIVATION.

Brief Description: For this assignment, I helped develop an educational lesson plan that documents many steps that I had utilized as an educator when teaching a specific activity to my students. In the lesson plan, I would include state standards, goals/objectives, materials needed and method of instruction. Within each of the methods of instruction, I would detail how the lesson will be introduced, demonstrated, practiced and assessed. This is so it would maximize there learning potential as much as possible. Rationale: To demonstrate my understanding of Standard #3, For the most part planning for Instruction, I included a reading Lesson Plans for the assignments had demonstrated it by ability to plan the lesson. Planning for my students involving time and patience to listen to them carefully during reading activity. The lesson plan also required me to address different student’s abilities, while keeping the class on track. My knowledge of the curriculum and contents are demonstrated in this lesson planning, as well.

THE COMPLEXITY OF HOME SCHOOLING KNOWING IF IT’S GOOD OR NOT FOR YOUR OWN FAMILY

IT IS HARD TO SAY IF HOME SCHOOLING IS WRITE FOR YOUR FAMILY OR NOT. THE ISSUE BETWEEN REGULAR SCHOOL AND HOME SCHOOLING ARE BASED ON SPECULATIONS AT TIMES. NOT EVERYTHING IS CORRECT BY WHAT EVERYONE SAYS ABOUT HOME SCHOOLING. HOME SCHOOL IS A TOPIC THAT IS WIDELY DEBATED WEATHER IT IS GOOD OR BAD. SO I WILL LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEWS AND ALSO USE MY EXPERIENCE AS A MOTHER WHO ONCE HOME SCHOOLED THEIR CHILDREN.

THE GROWING TRENDS OF HOMESCHOOLING ARE BECOMING MORE PRONOUNCED THAN REGULAR SCHOOLS NOW

The growing trends of home has it’s fast growing trend. In 1999 an Estimated 850,000 us students between the ages five and seventeen were being homeschooled. (Bielick, Chandler, and Broughman, 2001). Some estimates of home schooling children that where expected to double as more and more families questioned their children’s Efficacy of traditional schools and preparing each of their children effectively for High School or College. They wondered if the regular schooling could give them the proper knowledge for preparing them academically and socially for the global economy in a high competitive marketplace. More than 2.5-5 million students are being homeschooled with vast numbers of websites supporting curriculum for homeschooled children.

WHY WE NEED HOMESCHOOLING

On p254-342 of Vol.88, issue 3 of the Peabody Journal of Education (2013), Glanzer states that we need Homeschooling to save education in aLiberal democracy from taking religious form-what I call Democratic Education. He talks more about the Democratic identity and narratives becoming elevated to the highest priority in thinking about educating human beings. If the democracy is playing a role in the Education of the children today how much more are they really going to change things for our children and their outlook on Education. If the elevation becomes dangerous when other nonpolitical ends and aspects of humanity is ignored, or downplayed, or even worse delegitimized. He says “some argue that three signs of danger currently exist in our educational theories of practice. First democratic educators offering reductive view of human persons witch undo the focus placed upon skills educational justifications relate to students’ Political identities and capacities. Second liberal tradition of education seeks to show justice to diversity of narratives or comprehensive, reasonable world views that exist in America are being under minded. Third educational alternatives outside public system attacked by democratic educators considered politically problematic.If we want to recover human forms of education, we need to reinvigorate more pluralistic forms of humanistic education such as homeschooling, that nurturephilosophies and practices of education that allow for a wider focus upon human flourishing. Ultimately this is why liberal democracies need homeschooling.”Because of the journal, I agree with the statements it presents in it about why a liberal democracy needs education like homeschooling.

Homeschooling is an Art, not a Science:The Impact of Homeschooling on a Choice of College Major

Lynn Phillips (2009,Grove City College) Shippensburg, Pennsylvania She says little has bee to date the effects of homeschooling on post-high school students. As homeschoolers are becoming a high percentage of our population. It has been important to begin an investigation of these relationships. Such studies are to identify differences between the homeschooled and none-homeschooled students’ with their choices in college majors. As she talks more about the homeschooling stating that itWas hypothesized on students who had been homeschooled in high school would less likely to major in the natural sciences than their none-homeschooled peers. To test a survey was administered to over 800 students at a small, predominantly white, religious, Midwestern college. The sample has not randomly drawn, the results of the study to be significantly predicted directions: Homeschooling where less likely to major in the natural science compare to public or private schooled peers. The studies according to Lynn said the results suggest that in the short run, college interested in recruiting homeschooled students should build up their liberal arts programs. But not all home schooled children will Choose to liberal arts type carriers. Most children have an idea at a young age of what they would love to do for a carrier. Many children go into fields outside of the science and liberal arts even if they are in homeschooling or not. So in this case not everything is true today with children for their Chooses are based on their interest.

Education, Schooling, and children’s right: The complexity of home schooling

Homeschooling has a tendency to highlight and complicate the tension among the interest of parents, children, and the state. Robert Kunzman (School of Education) Indiana University argues for a modest version of children's educational rights, at least the legal sense that the state has the duty and the authority to enforce. At the same time, however, it is important to retain a principled distinction between schooling education-not only to protect children’s basic educational rights, also to prevent the state from overreaching into private realm of the home and family. All children, not just homeschoolers has more to education than institutional schooling. The learning experiences of occur with other organizations, churches, girl scouts, or little league baseball. Other types of Education take place at home, Shopping, and outings to places to strike up conversations of topics. Parents naturally see much of the raising of their children as a central part of the phrase Life as Education (LaE). We as parents give them values, we monitor their behaviors, we authorize who they play with and provide learning materials, books, and games. We as parents take an active role in the student’s life wither it is homeschooling or regular schooling at a none homeschooling place.

Open ended discussion questions

1. In this day and time do you really think that democratics should have the use of homeschooling for the benefits of all children and let the parent’s make their choices for their childrenIf it betters there education.

2. Should we as a nation say that no one should homeschool their child if it does make them a better student and more equipped with knowledge that they are not getting in a regular school.For not all children learn the same because of learning or physical limitations hinder them.

References

(Bielick, Chandler, and Broughman, 2001).

p254-342 of Vol.88, issue 3 of the Peabody Journal of Education (2013), Glanzer

Lynn Phillips (2009,Grove City College) Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

Robert Kunzman (School of Education) Indiana University