Day 16 practical tips for learning styles is our next topic for the 31 Day Free Boot Camp for New Homeschoolers.
What you come to appreciate more about homeschooling is that being a first-rate teacher is not as easy as it may seem and it requires work.
You’ll want tips for learning styles so you’re armed for the personality of your different children.
In the beginning, new homeschoolers spend more time choosing curriculum than they do improving their ability to teach.
Remembering that you are teaching a child and not a curriculum should motivate you to want to understand more about the learning process.
Learning tips and tricks of the trade takes time, but you should begin reading about learning how to teach rather than focusing exclusively on choosing curriculum.
{My curriculum sale last year.}
Too, applying knowledge of what you know now about learning styles will help you to tame the curriculum colossus.
Instead of focusing on learning about ALL curriculum this year, you can focus on just what your children need.
There will be plenty of time to come up for air and survey other options as you plod along.
Tips for Learning Styles
Along with my next post Day 17: How To Choose Curriculum Other than the “Looks Good” Method, I want to put in a nutshell what I have learned in my 20+ years or so of homeschooling and in my 10 years of advising other new homeschoolers. Easy?
Absolutely not because each family has different circumstances, but you need a starting point that works.
Between aligning curriculum that fits your child’s learning style and arming yourself with the strengths and weakness of each curriculum, your first year will be less daunting.
Look at some tips below.
Determine what your children like and don’t like and then you can see ways to teach that fits their learning style.
For example, if you have a child that learns best by hands-on, should you waste your time looking JUST at workbooks?
Workbooks have their place, but you are not trying to follow pubic school thinking where some feel that finishing a workbook equals learning.
It does not. I finished many work books when I was in elementary public school, but it did not always equal to mastery of the concept because I was lousy in math though I was a good student.
Who is Tina Robertson
But before you can appreciate how I can help you here are are a few things about me. Sure, this free new homeschooler boot camp is all about you.
However, you need to know that I’m not new to the homeschool world.
It has been several years since I wrote this series and I want to update you on my successes. And I’ve helped HUNDREDS get on the road to homeschooling.
Too, I have 3 homeschooled grads. So I’m well past having my oldest kid being 10 years old.
But the best part is that what I have for you works.
Also, look at a few other things about me.
- I am the author of the book Homeschooling 31 Day Boot Camp for New Homeschoolers: When You Don’t Know Where to Begin
- And I have a detailed self-paced online homeschool Kickstarter course. It is a detailed comprehensive course for first time homeschoolers.
That is enough about me.
This new homeschoolers free boot camp is about you. I’ve not only been helping new homeschoolers in person, but here at my site for years.
Also, I have created an easy course where you don’t have to wait to learn about learning styles.
Here is another example if you have a child that is a Competent Carl.
If he already excels at math, does he really need a lot of your help? Will purchasing a drill and kill workbook and your over explanations make him enjoy the first years of homeschooling?
On the other hand, if you are busy helping other children and you know that your Sociable Sue prefers one on one time with you, have you allowed time in your schedule to give her or him your undivided attention?
Refer back to these tips on what each personality likes and dislikes.
Ask yourself: “Am I the kind of teacher that “I” would want to learn from?”. If not, make improvements. It is a hard pill to swallow to make honest assessments, but homeschooling is for the brave and the humble.
Preparation is key to making sure your children enjoy you as a teacher.
Do you see some teaching tips you can implement now?
New to Homeschooling Start with the Basics
1 – 7 of the 31 day Free Boot Camp for New Homeschoolers
- 1 Learn The Lingo (& free glossary)
- 2: Homeschool Roots Matter
- 3 What is NOT Homeschooling
- 4: Confronting Relatives & Naysayers
- 5: The Wheels on the Bus Go ‘Round & ‘Round
- 6: Homeschool Hangouts & Socialization Situations
- 7: Tied Up with Homeschool Testing?
8-14 of the 31 day Free Boot Camp for New Homeschoolers
- 8: Organize Your Home – Then School
- 9: Carpe Diem: Homeschool Schedule by The Day, Month, & Year
- 10 Grocery Shopping Cooking Laundry
- 11: Swoonworthy Learning Spaces & Homeschool Rooms
- 12: Creative Storage Solutions for Homeschool
- 13. Streamlined Record Keeping
- 14 Homeschool Supplies List
15 – of the 31 Day Free Boot Camp for New Homeschoolers
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