Holistic homeschooling and home education

 

All-natural education and holistic homeschooling are both ways to teach kids about the world.

The concept of Homeschooling is a type of education in which kids learn at home, not in the classroom. Either a teacher or a tutor is there to help them. Another way to think about homeschooling is to get instruction at home from what is called "correspondence or umbrella schools." These schools instruct students at home. Before there was compulsory education, Holistic homeschooling and Home education were popular ways to teach kids.

To help you narrow down your search, we've put together a list of the most popular home-school styles. As you read through these summaries, think about what sounds best to you and what would best meet your needs. Each summary has links to other resources and an informal assessment to help you figure out if a certain style is right for you.

School-at-home programs allow students to learn the same things they do in class at their local school while also learning at home. Or, homeschooling can be as radical as "Unschooling" education, where the lessons are student-led and there is no homework or tests.

How to understand Holistic Education

There are a lot of humanitarian values and subject lines are blurred in holistic education, which means that the whole child is being cared for. We go into more detail in the podcast about active learning vs. passive learning, and we also talk about why it's better to use active learning over passive learning.

We also talk about the importance of the first 7 years of a child's life and how each and every experience they have, both good and bad, go into their subconscious mind. This is very important for how they learn and why having a holistic education option is so important during their foundational years.

Unschooling

John Holt, a homeschooling pioneer, is a big influence on Unschooling, which is a free-form learning method that is student-centered, unconventional, and unique to each child. Learning plans and study projects are based mostly on what the student wants to learn, but they also place a lot of emphasis on experiential, activity-based, and learn-as-you-go education. In unschooling, there will be some very systematic and rigorous teaching of basic skills like reading and writing, but this will be done with a lot of different techniques and materials, as well as without traditional tests or evaluations.

People who homeschool use a lot of different resources and ways to teach.

It says that "parents are the main resource in holistic homeschooling." Usually, the mother is the one who plays the biggest role, but sometimes the father is there to help. However, according to the ERIC, only one out of ten fathers are involved. They usually take the lead. There are a lot of places where parents can get help, like colleges, libraries, schools, museums, local businesses, parks departments, and more. Many big and small publishers also make materials for homeschooling, and they have a lot of different things for you to choose from.

Benefits

• This is an educational style that has been used for a long time and in many different ways.

• Putting a lot of attention on "Great Books" makes students feel important because they learn about some of the most important ideas and most important conversations in history and across the world. They do all of this by reading books that everyone should read.

• Reading is important in this method. If you go to a classical school, you're likely to be very well-read and know a lot about important texts from western history.

• According to the type of learning, there is a lot of room to learn a wide range of both old and new languages. You can learn Hebrew or Koine Greek with the Principle Approach, which is a type of classical education that is based on the Bible. People who learn Latin and classical Greek in a traditional way are called "classicists." And modern classical education can use any of these, as well as Spanish, to teach kids about the world.

Why should I choose to homeschool?

A 1999 survey by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) found that a majority of those who chose to homeschool said that the quality of education in schools made them choose to homeschool, while 39 percent said religious reasons were the main reason they chose homeschooling, and a further 26 percent said that the environment was the main reason they chose homeschooling. Thirty-three percent of holistic homeschooling households said that religion was the main reason they chose to homeschool their children. In the same study, 30 percent said that the environment in schools was not good for their children to be in, so they chose to homeschool. 14 percent said that the content or material taught in schools was not what they wanted their kids to learn, and another 11 percent said that there wasn't enough of a challenge in schools for their kids to deal with. This isn't all: In the same study, only 9% said morals were the reason they chose homeschooling.