Homeschooling a Non-Conventional Learner for Excessive Faculty

My oldest youngster began highschool at dwelling this 12 months.  He is a really non-traditional learner, which may current a problem when mother is the other.

And whereas he seems very very like me, we’re polar opposites. He is a number of inches taller than me, has opinions about every thing on this planet (a very good high quality, I maintain telling myself) and is extroverted x 1000.

Me? I used to be a textbook (pun meant) conventional school- lover.

E book studies? Sure, please.

Trifold tasks for presentation day? Can I make two?

Learn all of the books on this planet? Signal me up!

Math and Science night time for further tutoring so I shall be uber-prepared? Yup. I’m right here for it.

My son was practically 5 once we began formally homeschooling.  I used to be a bit naive at first considering he would need to sit down for 3 hours to do studying, writing, and arithmetic. That lasted possibly half a day. Or maybe it was a half-an-hour.

He discovered to do fundamental spelling by bouncing on a ball throughout the ground. I’d conceal quantity flashcards round the home and he would run and discover them and inform me the quantity. We practiced letting writing together with his finger and sand or making letters out of modeling clay.

We learn BOB books, watched Phrase World and free play was welcomed and inspired. His brother and sister (twins which can be 22 months youthful) rounded out our little homeschool. We had been content material with our hands-on manipulatives, read-alouds, messy crafts, candy lapbook tasks and many exterior play.

Did I point out my son simply turned 14?

I by no means meant to homeschool and I actually could not think about homeschooling highschool.

However right here we’re. And might I let you know a secret? I am type of enthusiastic about it and I’m not freaking out as a lot as I believed I’d be. No less than not but.

How We Are Making ready a Excessive Faculty Plan That Works for a Non-Conventional Learner

We have been homeschooling for some time now and my ideas and concepts about dwelling schooling have modified and blossomed over time. We’re not tied to a specific homeschool philosophy.

We’ve been via some very difficult instances as a household the place homeschooling seemed very very like motion pictures, Lego play, and audiobooks.  We began off doing morning time and group work and learning as many topics collectively as we may.

I’ve written about how center college homeschooling turned our days in a special path. This has helped me chill out right into a extra interest-led, relaxed concept for highschool. I’ve additionally been a scholar of my youngster for his whole life.

We talked about him going to Classical schooling program three days per week or perhaps a College Mannequin college. He took a couple of seems on the applications and instantly mentioned no. And that was superb with me.

Whereas I do have his first 12 months deliberate out, I have not finished a sweeping four-year plan but. I’m working my method via “Homeschooling Excessive Faculty By Design” by Heather Woodie of Weblog, She Wrote. What piqued my curiosity is her out-of-the-box strategy to homeschooling out-of-the-box teenagers.  She has modules on making a schedule and a four-year plan, making time for pursuits, creating electives, educating gifted teenagers, and extra.

If you happen to’re homeschooling highschool and are in search of assets that commemorate interest-led studying, I like to recommend Blake Boles’ podcast and his books.  Additionally, unschooling books and podcasts is likely to be one thing to discover as properly—even in case you’ve by no means thought of your self an unschooler.

Renee Tougas’ “Freedom Training” course can be a incredible useful resource (not only for highschool, however homeschooling generally). She is an skilled homeschool dad or mum who has walked the trail and has very important perception and steering. I took this course this previous winter and it actually helped me craft a imaginative and prescient as we transfer into this subsequent section of homeschooling.

Since that is highschool, we shall be monitoring all of those lessons and actions for his homeschool highschool transcript. Relying on how his programs come collectively, we will resolve to create a transcript grouped by grade or by topic space, whichever will benefit from his highschool experiences. This flexibility makes planning highschool programs for non-traditional learners a lot simpler.

Are you homeschooling highschool? Drop me a remark beneath and let me know what it seems like for you and your loved ones!