Bright Kids at Home - How do I homeschool my gifted student?
Our Pages on: [ books ] Understand the logistics of homeschooling. Our Pages on: [ Getting started homeschooling ] Determine what your local and state laws are regarding homeschooling. Notify your local school district using the means that are accepted by local homeschoolers. Recognize that by homeschooling, whether you think so or not, you are making a political statement. Keep abreast of items that may effect homeschooling in your area. Remember, in order to be protected by law, you must comply with the requirements of the laws. Sometimes the school district does not acknowledge your choice to homeschool, sometimes they do. It varies by state. Our Pages on:[ legal information ] Detoxify Our Pages on: [ adding travel ] Get in touch with support groups in your area. Get on an email list that seems to fit your style. Join "regular" homeschool groups but also try to find a group that maybe specializes in gifted homeschooling or that has a number of gifted homeschoolers. Read all you can about what it means to be gifted. Our pages about: [ identification, books ] Read about dominant learning styles. Our pages about: [ learning styles, books ] Read about homeschooling styles and methods. Our homeschool is more of an eclectic one, this means that we do a little of this and a little of that. Our pages about: [homeschool styles, methods & curriculum, ] Get some ideas about your "gameplan". If your children are mature enough, plan your lessons together. You may just get a list of topics they are interested in, and that is a good start to your research. If your child is not ready to help you, there are many purveyors of education willing to sell you whatever you want to buy from them. Write down what you want to teach and then match up what is available with what you want in an education for your student. Ideas: [ adding travel, homeschool styles, methods & curriculum ] Plan your days. Some families have "school" from 9-3PM, others don't ever develop a schedule, some hit the road to homeschool. Determine how you want your days to go. Will housework be part of your school day? How about meal preparation? Shopping? Laundry? Travel? It gets tricky, but with planning, it all fits in. Ideas: [ how we did it, adding travel ] Make plans to keep records. Your school calendar is a good record of your school year, if it's accurate. Keeping records of what you teach, the progress you actually make and the books you used are good things to keep track of. Being able to prove that you are actually homeschooling your student can save a lot of grief in the future. If you intend tohomeschool for high school, you might also want to get an idea about keeping transcripts and portfolios. Our pages about: [ keeping records ]
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