If you want to achieve success in home schooling your children you are to organize home education properly. Consider basic principles of time management.

Organize Homeschool Education Properly

Organize Homeschool Education Properly

8) Do not let your child to do lessons, when the TV-set is switched on. Switched TV-set lessens the children’s ability to learn and explore.
9) It is advised to take your child to the local library or create your own library full of colorful books on math, spelling and interesting stories at home.
10) It is advised to begin an educational process with studying easy things and moving consequently to more difficult ones.
11) Do not do only dull kinds of work. Have sometimes activities that are interesting and amusing. Find out what activities will be interesting for your child and use them frequently. It can be such activities as reading a story or listening to cassette-recorded stories or playing with building blocks or modeling clay. 
organize_home_schooling12) Use various ways of learning such as kinesthetic, auditory and visual ones. Kinesthetic method is touching things. Auditory method is listening.  Visual method is visual activity such as watching a cartoon or reading. You can apply one method or their combination.
13) It is possible to use such educational visual materials as workbooks, flashcards, matching games, instruction charts and books. Among possible educational auditory materials one can name songs and rhymes. There are such educational kinesthetic materials as model kits, puzzles, typing and gardening.

It is recommended to organize your learning process in such a way that all the building components will be available:
I. Organize your work and proper educational process.
1) Define your goal, possible problems and the ways of their removing. 2) Find out a goal for each activity and class session. 3) Put brainstorming questions to arise curiosity and interest about the subject. 4) Have a concept map of the lecture or chapter outline. 5) Have a positive study environment paying attention to such characteristics as air, water, sound, light, privacy and temperature. 6) It is good to do some mind-body exercises.
II. Do all the possible to attract attention to the information.
1) It is recommended to define what you already know and what you should know. 2) It is advised to have lecture notes. 3) Have links and connections and possible associations. Associations can be created with the concept map.

III. Practice.
1) Remember that repeated review is good for the development of memory and keeping in mind the necessary information. 2) Have reviews in certain short periods like a day, two days, one week, one month and six months. 3) It is possible to summarize and paraphrase, simulate and role-play. It is interesting to communicate with someone, whose learning style and perceptions differ from you. 4) You can explain your concept map to others. 5) It is effective to play a game known as "What if?" You can be creative by turning things upside-down and inside-out. You can play having a point of view that differs from your own. 6) It is recommended to use a video or a song. 7) It will be unusual when you record yourself with a funny voice reading the lesson notes. 8) You may try how good a teacher you are trying to explain the subject to younger children and make sure that they understand you. 9) Use various games at your lessons. 10) It is good to make a flow chart and flash cards. 11) Have a funny test for a friend and do the similar test yourself.

IV. Have associations.
1) Knowing that lessons are completed, have a concept map of the complete course. 2) It is possible to discuss how the learning is relevant in the "real world". 3) It is good to write down your efforts analyzing your successes and drawbacks.



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