Homeschool Teacher: a practical guide to inspiring academic excellence

by Kate Laird

Overview

Homeschool Teacher is a guide for families new to homeschooling, old hands looking for ideas, and parents wanting to help their children after school. Based on twelve years of homeschooling experience and academic research, Homeschool Teacher covers how we learn, teaching tactics, specific recommendations for subject areas, how to choose the best curriculum for your family and situation, and above all, how to make school rigorous and interesting, academic and practical. Homeschool Teacher demonstrates how to meld the best of traditional academics and child-led learning to develop an individual program that will maximize your child's potential.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532715716
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/19/2016
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kate Laird graduated from Harvard with a degree in history, a good set of study skills, and a 100-ton captain's license.
Her first teaching job began seven days after graduation, tutoring three children on a sailboat crossing the Pacific. That "year off" turned into twenty-five, as she worked on boats around the world, sometimes pausing to write about it.

In the middle, she taught for another two years at the University of New Hampshire, while earning an MA in English, but then didn't think much more about education until it came time to teach her two daughters. The last twelve years have been devoted to their educations, as the family worked and traveled on the edges of civilization from Greenland to Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego to New Zealand, through the South Pacific to Japan, and now to Alaska.