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Homeschooling your child is a big decision. Before you make it, you’ll want to know the different styles of homeschooling. Then you can decide which one is best for you and your child.

Eclectic Homeschooling - This kind of homeschooling encourages you to use everday activities as lessons to teach them a subject.

Classical Homeschooling - This is a method of learning that goes all the way back to the middle ages. It works on the philosophy that the younger children begin with learning the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. Once that’s mastered, they move on to the next stage, which consists of grammar. It involves compositions and collections.

Next the serious study of reading and writing and arithmetic begins in the dialect stage. Unlike public schools who use grade-appropriate materials, the child learns in stages.

The Charlotte-Mason Method - This is one of the most popular methods of homeschooling today. Charlotte-Mason developed this style to enrich a child’s education through nature, literature and real life experiences.

Although a child must still be taught with a regular curriculum according to your state’s laws, they can learn to love learning with nature lessons, poetry understanding and much more. When learning is more enlightening for a child, they’re more apt to absorb the information then when they’re given a bunch of facts to memorize.

Montessori-at-Home - With this kind of home schooling, a child learns the basics through their environment and by using all of their senses. Not by memorizing facts straight out of a textbook.

The Moore Formula - Broken into three separate parts, this home schooling method is a way of teaching with studying for a fixed amount of time each day.

It involves manual work and entrepreneurship, which teaches a child to accept responsibility. Lastly, it involves home or community service, which builds character within the child.

The Reggio Emilia Approach - Targetted at preschool-aged children, this approach promotes learning through exploration without forcing the fundamentals. Children learn what they want to learn at their own pace.

The Structured Homeschooling Approach - This approach uses a structure similar to a public school curriculum. It uses grade levels depending of the student’s academic ability and age.

The Unit Study Approach - With this type of home schooling, the child learns a complete subject instead of simply working their way through a textbook. The child learn using reading, science, math, and others ways to study the topic. Studies demonstrate that a child retains up to 50% more using this technique compared with traditional public school methods.

Unschooling - The is the most basic of home schooling methods. With unschooling, you simply let your child lead you in what they need to learn based on their interests and goals. There’s not fixed curriculum with this method.

Waldorf Homeschooling - The philosophy of this home school method is to allow the child to explore their environment and to teach them using their spirit, soul, and body.

By analyzing your child’s learning abilities and your comfort-level with each type of instruction, you’ll be able to find a method of homeschooling that fulfills both you and your child during the educational journey the two of you take together.

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