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Overview

If you believe that a good education is the greatest gift you can give your child, you’re probably pretty unhappy with what’s being taught in most classrooms these days. If you think that education should do more than just train kids to take standardized tests, that it should build their critical thinking skills, enable them to weigh ethical considerations, instill a passion for learning, and reflect your core values and beliefs, then you’re probably fed up with the current state of our schools. If, like many parents, you’re wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you’re looking for, then you’ll be happy to know that the answer is yes–and Home Schooling For Dummies shows you how.

This friendly, well-informed guide is a valuable resource for parents considering homeschooling, as well as veteran homeschooler interested in fresh homeschooling ideas. It gets you on track with what you need to know to confidently:

  • De termine whether homeschooling is right for you and your family
  • Get started in homeschooling
  • Obtain teaching materials
  • Develop a curriculum that reflects your values and beliefs
  • Comply with all legal requirements
  • Find healthy social outlets for your kids
  • Join a homeschooling cooperative

From textbooks to computers to state compliance, expert Jennifer Kaufeld, covers all the bases. She anticipates most of your questions about homeschooling and answers them with clear, easy-to-follow answers enlivened by real-life accounts by parents around the nation who have opted to homeschool their children. Topics covered include:

  • Deciding at what age to begin
  • Determining your kid’s learning style and teaching to it
  • Teaching special needs children
  • Developing a curriculum that’s right for your children
  • Finding social outlets for you homeschoolers
  • Complying with state and federal regulations
  • Teaching at the primary, middle school and high school levels
  • Preparing for the SATs, ACT and other key standardized tests
  • Networking with other homeschoolers

You shouldn’t have to compromise on your children’s education. Get Homeschooling For Dummies and find out how to turn your home into a school and raise smart, well-adjusted kids.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764508882
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 12/28/2001
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 278,412
  • Series: For Dummies Series
  • Product dimensions: 7.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 0.88 (d)

Meet the Author

Jennifer Kaufeld has been homeschooling her two children for nearly a decade. She contributes to Homeschooling Today Magazine and is a regular speaker at state and regional homeschooling and education conferences.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions Used in This Book 2
How This Book Is Organized 2
The Cast of Icons 4
Jump In--the Water's Fine! 5
Part I Heading to Homeschooling 7
Chapter 1 Answering the Big Questions 9
Getting to This Point 9
Knowing Not to Know It All 11
Affording It 11
Hanging In There 13
Signing up for the long haul 13
Staying at home forever 14
Breaking the News to Mom 15
Chapter 2 Taking theLeap 17
Realizing That Anger Is Not Enough 17
Ensuring educational excellence 18
Meeting your child's special needs 18
Retaining religious convictions 19
Accommodating family lifestyle 19
Determining What's Best For Your Family 20
Creating Solutions for Special Situations 21
Working around your job 21
Dealing with special learners 22
Beginning the Journey 23
Choosing the perfect time of year 24
Deciding at what age to begin 24
Assigning Homework 25
Making homeschooling more than school at home 26
Using the extra time 27
Chapter 3 Addressing the Buzzword: Socialization 29
Making the Question Clearer 29
Social outlets 30
Socialization 30
Presenting the Issue of the Year 31
Letting Your Proverbial Hair Down 32
Chapter 4 Complying with Uncle Sam 35
Conducting Yourself (Yes, Ma'am) in Accordance with State Law 35
Locating Your State's Law 37
Counting Out the School Days 39
Calling a Truce: Interacting with Your Local School 41
1 Know your law 42
2 Make sure your ducks are in a row 43
3 Know your law 43
Chapter 5 Getting Everybody Involved 45
Dad's or Mom's Role in Your School 45
Drawing on Your Strengths 47
Filling in the Gaps 48
Part II Tacking Kids of Any Age 51
Chapter 6 Teaching Your Toddler While You Change Your Baby 53
Juggling Primers, Preschoolers, and Diapers 53
Surviving Life with a Toddler 55
Teaching with a toddler 56
Teaching your toddler 57
Covering the Preschool Basics 58
Teaching with a preschooler 58
Teaching your preschooler 59
Chapter 7 Covering the Elementary Years 63
Setting out with Elementary Students 63
Facing the Facts: It's Tougher Than You Suspected 64
It's as easy as A, B, C 65
Going on to the heavy hitters 67
Eating Your Way through Math 68
Going Beyond "Our Community Helpers" 70
Firing Up the Bunson Burner 73
Timing Is Everything 74
When timing is off 74
While you wait 75
Chapter 8 Handling Junior High 77
Beginning in the Middle 77
Keeping Track of It All 79
Putting Grades to the Test 80
Chapter 9 Help! I Have a High Schooler 83
Starting at the Eleventh Hour (Or Eleventh Grade) 84
Dancing the High School Subject Tango 85
Math 86
Science 88
History 89
Languages 89
Driver education 89
Electives 90
Recording Records 93
Prepping for College 95
ACTing on Your InSATiable Desire for Standardized Tests 96
SAT 96
ACT 97
Chapter 10 Completing Twelfth Grade Doesn't Mean It's Over 99
Spreading Their Wings and Earning Their Keep 100
Continuing to college 100
Marching in the military 100
Studying at a trade/vocational school 101
Entering the work force 101
Strapping on the Tool Belt 102
Continuing Homeschool through College 104
Staying at home 104
Finding a suitable program 105
Part III Choosing Your Cornerstone: Basic Curriculum Options 107
Chapter 11 Orbiting as a Satellite School or ISP 109
Riding the Satellite 109
Opting for a Complete Curriculum 110
Pinpointing a Satellite Program 111
Elementary through junior high 112
High schools 113
Independent Study Programs 114
Matching Your Needs with Their Offerings 115
Chapter 12 Does Classical Education Mean Teaching Vivaldi? 117
Classifying It Classical 117
Trying the trivium 118
Forming the foundation with literature 120
Assembling Your Classical Curriculum Components 120
Language arts 121
Math 123
Science 123
History 124
Geography 125
Art 126
Music 127
Latin 127
Foreign language 128
Gathering More Information 129
Chapter 13 Teaching Them What They Want to Learn 131
Unveiling the Integrated Unit Study 132
All unit studies, all the time 132
Locating unit studies 133
Making them last 134
Changing Pace with Unit Studies 135
Designing Unit Studies 137
Subject-ing yourself to this? 137
Digging for topics 138
Chapter 14 Unschooling: A Walk on the Relaxed Side 141
Raising Eyebrows and Suspicions 141
Fitting the Bill 142
Learning through the Course of a Day 143
Filling Your Home with Unschooling Tools 145
Books 145
Games 146
Software 147
Technological and building toys 148
Videos 149
Recording Their Progress 150
Chapter 15 Charting Your Own Academic Course 151
Knowing Whether Your Kid's Kinesthetic 152
Pulling from Different Publishers 153
Starting with what you know 153
Pulling from the stacks 154
Writing A Curriculum from Scratch: The Diehard Approach 161
Chapter 16 Special Concerns for Special Students 165
Considering Yourself Capable 165
Guiding the Gifted 167
Taking different paths 167
Rounding up gifted education resources 168
Teaching the Medically Fragile 170
Getting the Goods You Need 170
Special equipment and services 171
Individualized Education Program 171
Information 172
Chapter 17 Finding the Sources You Need 175
Getting the Good Stuff with Curriculum Guides 175
Looking at Your Local Store 177
Avoiding the Malls: Ordering via Mail 177
Attending a Homeschool Conference 179
Hearing It from the Horse's Mouth 180
Part IV Nailing Down the Details 181
Chapter 18 Defining Your School Space 183
Making Room for Chalk 183
Setting aside the optimal amount of space 184
Buying too far in advance increases storage needs 184
Deciding between the Den, the Dining Room, or the Whole Darn Place 186
Gathering around the kitchen table 186
Setting aside a special room 187
LEGOs in the living room and homework in the hall 188
Chapter 19 Keeping the Costs Down 191
Slashing Curriculum Prices 191
Choosing an inexpensive curriculum 192
Finding used curriculum 193
Writing your own curriculum 195
Tapping the Fountain of Fellow Homeschoolers 195
Borrowing books long term 196
Buying as a group 197
Asking for the Discount 197
Making the most of the Net 198
Breaking Out the Library Card 198
Understanding Copyright: What Is Fair Educational Use? 200
Chapter 20 Turning Chaos into Organization 205
Tracking Your Week with a Planner 205
Seeking the Paperless Society 208
Thirty Days Hath September 210
Scheduling for Sanity 211
Keeping Your School Spotless 212
Feeling the Burnout 212
Chapter 21 Making the Grade 215
Deciding Whether to Keep Grades 215
Writing the tests that they take to make the grades that you record in the house that Jack built 216
Figuring the grade 218
Tracking Those Unit Studies 219
Keeping a State-Required Portfolio 220
Testing Standardized's Validity 222
Chapter 22 Plugging in Your Schoolroom 225
Using the Mouse to Whip That PC into Shape 226
'Net-ting Resources 227
Electrifying Your Frustration 229
Connecting with Other Homeschoolers 231
Discussion or message boards 231
Mailing lists 231
Chat 233
Enhancing Your Subjects with Multimedia 234
Chapter 23 Connecting with Likeminded Souls 237
Networking Isn't Just for Computer Geeks 238
Associating and Consorting 239
Praying for Guidance 240
Chatting It Up 241
Getting Together for Socialization 242
Chapter 24 Opting for a Cooperative 245
TEAM: Together, Everyone Achieves More 245
Gathering Informally 246
Formalizing Your Group 247
Finding a large co-op 247
Dissecting a large co-op 248
Part V Making Your Year Sing with Extras 251
Chapter 25 Adding Spice with Special Classes 253
Making Time for the Extras 254
Bringing Out Their Inner Artists 255
Music 256
Art 258
Go ahead--Be Dramatic 260
Speech and debate 160
Drama 262
Homeschool groups 265
Taking Some Laps 265
Parlez-vous Greek? 267
Cleaning the House and Calling It Schoolwork 269
Chapter 26 Making It Adventurous 273
Dirtying Your Hands with a Project 273
Dissecting an owl pellet 274
Playing amateur archaeologist 274
Creating a garden 275
Building a train layout 275
Burying yourself in papier mache 276
Assembling a model 276
Taming the Boob Tube 277
Pretending It's Le Louvre 278
Getting Past Bugs Bunny 279
Volunteering Builds Compassion 280
Packing Up the Minivan 281
Chapter 27 Throwing Open the Toy Box 285
Thinking about Playing or Playing to Think? 286
Ante Up 287
Plugging In for Fun 289
Thrilling the Engineer's Heart 290
Part VI The Part of Tens 295
Chapter 28 Ten Educational Games That Enhance Your School Day 297
AC/DC 297
Acquire 298
Apples to Apples 298
Blue vs. Gray 298
Chrononauts 299
The Garden Game 299
Into the Forest 300
Keep Quiet 300
Krypto 300
Oh, Scrud! 301
Chapter 29 Ten Common Homeschool Fears 303
My child will never make friends if I homeschool 303
I don't know enough to teach my child 304
My child will miss out on socialization 304
I will buy the wrong curriculum 305
My child will learn less at home than he does at school 306
I'll never have free time again 307
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  • Anonymous

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    Great resource

    Perfect resource book for anyone wanting information on Homeschooling, whether you decide to Homeschool or just looking for information on the subject.

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