Horario de Educación en el Hogar: Qué tan seguido estudiamos cada materia
By: Keith
Mi horario de educación en el hogar no se parece en nada a los horarios de clases que yo tenía cuando iba a la primaria. En la primaria yo tenía un solo maestro todo el día, y estudiábamos las mismas materias día tras día. No fue sino hasta el 5º grado cuando comencé a cambiar de salón de clases (tuve 2 maestros en lugar de solo 1). Aún así, tuve que esperarme hasta la preparatoria antes de verdaderamente entrar en un horario rotatorio, uno en donde mis clases no fueran impartidas todos los días. El tener una clase formal cada día por cada clase es contraproducente. Los niños se agobian, y la rutina se convierte en aburrimiento. Es mejor usar un horario rotativo flexible. La única materia por la que no soy flexible es lectura; nosotros leemos todos los días. Sin embargo, el resto de nuestras materias reciben el tratamiento de a cada tercer día. Aquí está mi horario de este año (ha sido flexible año con año dependiendo de la materia en la que los hijos necesiten más enfoque.
Mi Horario Escolar de la primera mitad del 2011:
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We do the exact same thing, & wow, isn’t it amazing to see the difference in our children from what we witness now & have experienced ourselves? Our schedules evolve according to need as well, & just like you guys, we don’t move on until it’s understood. I also have to say we approach each topic with the inquisitive depth of a researcher, rather than skimming the surface of anything.
On a daily basis I require Math, Reading, & Writing…but every other day the writing is informal/creative/expressive, while the other days concentrate on formal reports or analysis of an issue. Mine are older than yours though
We rotate every other day regarding: Social Studies/Science, Foreign Language/Music, Spelling/Grammar, and Art is a natural part of our daily lives. Although these are our guidelines, we think nothing of dropping the expected to seize an opportunity that drops into our laps.
More and more you make me think that I wouldn’t mind home-schooling my kids. I just can’t get past the socialization aspect of attending school. I know you have made me see how my views on that are not always right. I just can’t get past that factor. I’m getting there though.
Dennis: Compulsory schooling came about as a response to child labor laws in the beginning of the 20th century. After child labor laws were enacted, big cities like NYC and Chicago had a delinquency problem. The solution was to do something with the kids — enter compulsory education. You can also think of it as institutionalization because it wasn’t done “for the kids”. It was done to keep kids out of trouble and away from the general population. Chew on that the next time you consider the socialization “issue”. There’s no such issue. Of course, people think public schooling has been around forever so nobody questions it. Little do they know that kids have been getting along just fine without public schooling for several thousand years.
There is another aspect to this socialization issue: maybe the public (or even private) school is great training grounds IF you’re planning to deal with kids the rest of your life. For most people, that’s not the plan. If your kids are going to be dealing with people of all ages and in all walks of life, homeschooling exposes them to exactly that (real-life) environment where they can see things being built, business being conducted, and people, plants and animals going about their lives.
Does it make sense to confine a child 7 hours everyday to a classroom with dozens of other kids and just a few adults whose main job is to keep children under control and try to get some knowledge and skill into their heads?
Neither I nor most people I know want to spend our time in an environment consisting primarily of juveniles being kept walled off from society. What benefit is it to my child to be subjected to that environment? Everything she needs can be taught outside that poultry farm, with much less conflict, grief and overhead cost in time. I will leave aside the issue of how almost every class runs at the wrong pace for most kids in it. I agree with Keith’s way of focusing on accomplishing the amount of education, not the amount of time, in schooling his kids.
Yo Keith. I dont mind the kids in class rooms all day together. Think, herds of mammals; homogenization. I want plenty of those around.
My Children are Wolf pups awaiting adulthood to feed on the herd.
HEY! I didnt make the rules; if it was up to me there would not be brick and mortar. So I adapt to what is.
I consider socialization to be an inferior trait, of which the Darwinian Principles must take advantage. Sounds elitist, but what’s the opposite of herd mentality?
Danny: You always put it in such concise terms! That’s right. Predators feed on the herd!
Caligrafía so important?
And no arte?
I see! In first year caligrafía is important
But I am missing arts and crafts.
Calligraphy is art. But, we do do other crafts and projects. Those things are not scheduled. We simply do them when the mood strikes.
Keith, why do you choose to have Fridays off instead of Sundays? Why do they work on school stuff six days a week?
By the way, I like that you have a schedule that varies from day to day. Homeschooling sounds fun!
Friday was the only day that none of us had some pre-scheduled activity or something else to do. I figured we might as well all get a break. We don’t adhere to any normalized school schedule so 6 days is how I managed to fit in everything I wanted to do without overloading them on any given day. We do fewer hours of school work (and accomplish at least twice as much) in 6 days than public school kids do in 5. I intentionally wanted to keep working on Sunday’s because I like to stick it to tradition. It’s better to turn left when everyone else turns right.