Homeschooling - Is It Right for Your Family?
What you'll learn
- At the end of this course, the parent will have more knowledge upon which to make the decision as to whether or not they might try home schooling their children
- Parents will also have learned about resources available to them to support their home schooling efforts should they proceed in this direction
Requirements
- Students should be parents with an interest in teaching their children at home
Description
The decision as to whether or not to home school your children is a difficult one to make. You obviously care for the well being of your children and have concerns about public education or about a current situation you are facing to have come so far as to read this introduction. I went through this decision process with my own children years ago and we became home schoolers for a number of years for our four children. They all went through this process.
It takes courage to take this on as a family lifestyle choice and you may feel like you are jumping into a completely unknown future by taking this step.
But you are not alone on this journey. The material you will obtain through this course will help you decide and will point you to additional sites, people and organizations out there that can assist you in becoming and operating successfully as a home schooling family.
You will learn about:
- The lifestyle and why people consider home schooling their children in the first place
- Legal implications in your region and who can help you if you run into legal issues or government interference
- Where to look for home schooling conferences you might wish to attend
- E-learning and paper based curriculums to choose from
- A brief history of home schooling and the home schooling movement; and,
- Some famous home schooled children who have become very famous and could be seen as home schooling role models.
So I encourage you to go through the lessons herein and take what you can from this course. You will by doing so, have more useful information in front of you at the end of it to help you make a more informed decision as to whether to go ahead with this journey or not.
Best wishes,
Dan Grijzenhout - Course Creator
Who this course is for:
- This course targets families with pre-school children at home
- People interested in the subject of home schooling
Course content
- Preview04:02
- Preview05:25
- Preview02:59
- 05:49Home Schooling, Public Schooling and Values
- 07:17The Cost of Home Schooling
- 04:28Using the Home School Legal Defense Association
- 03:24Online and Paperbound Curriculums - The Road Ahead
- 3 questionsEnd of Homeschooling Course Quiz
- 01:09Bonus Lecture: Congratulations and More Course Discounts for You
Instructor
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- 19 Courses
About Dan Grijzenhout: For close to thirty years, Dan has been a professional business and information systems consulting professional working as an Enterprise Architect, Database Architect and Project Manager to executive levels for both private and public sector organizations globally, a number of which were "Fortune" level enterprises. Dan has founded, operated and sold an online global payment services company that moves millions of dollars on behalf of its 100,000 plus account holders annually; he has been interviewed on the show "World Business Review" by former head of NATO and Secretary of State, General Alexander Haig, for his work in advanced digital and online telecommunications services and nation-wide online and card based "Loyalty" programs; and now works at writing and building training programs to share his years of experience with others interested in becoming professional consultants, enterprise architects, and taking advantage of online business growth opportunities.
Social Media Marketing, Content Creation and Authorship: During the past few years, Dan has focused nearly all his time and energy on designing and building online marketing systems and social media marketing platforms. In fact, Dan recently completed a two year project as the project manager and chief enterprise architect to build a marketing system used by several major airlines, travel agencies and Fortune Level manufacturing corporations. Dan has written, self-published and self-marketed nine books now being sold through Amazon Kindle and Create Space; he has written and published over 60 published social media related training/learning articles, and has created over 300 training videos and knowledge enhancing video podcasts.
He has gained expertise in many online content creation tool-sets including the full suite of Adobe Creative tools and Adobe Dreamweaver for website development; video and audio editing software; 3rd party social media related website services and content creation partners; and most main-stream social communication platforms including Facebook and Facebook business pages, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, Reddit, GoodReads, Amazon Author Central, LinkedIn, Ezine Articles Publishing, Amazon-Kindle Book Publishing, Amazon Create Space and more. On these social media platforms, Dan has now amassed over 20,000 followers and subscribers and more are following him daily.