When people say that parents can't or shouldn't homeschool because they're not certified teachers, what is it specifically that they think teachers do to that uncertified people can't? Or what is it that they think teachers learn during certification that makes them able to teach?
My memories of junior high and high school were mainly of teachers saying things that were already in our textbooks. My memories of elementary were of working from workbooks or textbooks, things just about any parent can help their child with, and spending time reading, writing book reports and writing creative stories.
My teacher training and my time teaching were focused on teaching a group of children. We learned that we needed to figure out ways to keep all the children engaged, how to implement classroom discipline... As someone who has taught a class full of kids, who has tutored individual people and is now homeschooling, I can say from experience that they are very different situations.
2006-09-01
02:28:47
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