Do You Need To Be A Qualified Teacher To Home Educate

By Ina Woolcott

In a word, NO!

It is a big decision when deciding whether to home educate. Parents who choose to home school their children know from the get go that this is a big responsibility and undertaking. Home schooling means total involvement. For home schooling parents, the task of helping their children to learn is hardly ever a burden though.

Just as parents help their offspring to learn to walk, talk, eat, get dressed, brush teeth et al by being models and providing guidance, home schooling is a natural progression when providing the now older child with tools and resources to read, write, count, add, subtract etc. It can be said that the best teachers for children are those that love them the most and are so familiar with and respect their individual way of learning. Parents who have the time and patience - although this doesn't always come easy but is also learned and expanded along the way - to provide 1-on-1 undivided attention, unless of course other siblings are being home schooled. Children that are given the freedom to follow their own interests, to delve into topics that interest them and have some say in how and what they learn, develop into eager and effective learners.

Those that home school are doing what most teachers wish they could do but cant, as classes are often over full, there is not enough time for everyone. Most teachers will agree that the children, who do well in school, are those whose parents are involved in their education.

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