It’s a sanity saving tip to know how to fuse personality and learning styles to choose the best homeschool curriculum. You’ll love the other tips I have on my page homeschool learning styles.
Understanding you and your child’s personality differences and how it affects learning styles in homeschooling is valuable.
While choosing homeschool curriculum, thinking about my children’s learning personality was not tops on my list. That was a mistake.
Today, I’m sharing a few quick tips in how to combine your child’s learning personality and homeschool learning style.
Knowing how your child learns best helps you reduce stress and struggling.
However, before I go further, I want to give you a heads up about learning styles.
There is no way science can fully understand how the magnificent brain takes in information.
But getting a general understanding of why your child may struggle in one subject and excel in another will help you reduce the struggle.
Questions to Know How to Combine Personality with Learning Style
To begin with look at these three tips to help you weigh how a homeschool curriculum will fit your child’s learning personality.
1. What is the approach of the curriculum you’re interested in?
For example, if you know your child has done best with moving while learning then a traditional workbook approach is not the choice for your family.
Too no matter how comfortable you are with the curriculum, if it’s not a fit for your child, you will face resistance.
So, when a curriculum does not fit our child’s personality, it can make stress increase.
Look at my post Top 5 Homeschool Approaches New Homeschoolers Need to Know to understand what are the top homeschool approaches.
Remember, all curriculum falls into one or more approaches.
Next, you need to know what has not worked.
2. What curriculum has NOT worked in the past?
And it may seem like an obvious question, but I’ve learned identifying what will work means to identify exactly what did not work.
Then identify what was the approach of the last curriculum you used which didn’t work.
Third, identify what is your child’s strength.
So much focus is on what a child can’t do instead of what he can do.
3. What is your child’s FAVORITE subject?
Furthermore, to identify with better accuracy what is a child’s learning personality begin with knowing what is his favorite subject.
Next hear my heart when I say be sure it’s your child’s favorite subject and not yours or the one you want them to know because it’s your favorite.
Then, is it a content or skill subject?
Look at my post Skill Subjects vs. Content Subjects: What’s the Difference.
For example, if your child’s favorite subjects are art and music and he struggles with writing, he may be more of a creative thinker.
However, if you child prefers to walk around reading encyclopedia or from his device, he could be analytical.
Matching his strong points to homeschool approaches is vital. For instance, Charlotte Masson puts an emphasis on music and art and delaying language arts.
However, there are more ways to identify your child’s learning personality.
Grab this 35+ Best Homeschool Curriculum By Learning Style (free printable).
Why Your Child’s Learning Personality is Important
Because teaching styles are only part of choosing curriculum easily, I’ve included a link to my online course Identifying Your Homeschooled Childs Learning Personality.
YOU WILL LEARN:
- How to understand the way your child prefers to learn so that you can teach him in a way that he enjoys learning;
- How to pinpoint your child’s learning personality;
- A starting point in understanding (barring any special learning challenges or disabilities) and accepting your child’s preferred way of taking in information;
- Understanding when the learning personality emerges; and
- Teaching tips for each learning personality to stop the head-butting.
Other Homeschool Learning Style Resources
- Mega List of Workbook Style Homeschool Curriculum For K to 12 Kids
- 3 Veteran’s Superb Tips to Understand Homeschool Learning Style Differences
- 6 Easy Ways to Identify the Charlotte Mason Homeschool Style
- How to Determine the Best Learning Style Approach for Your Child?
- What Are the Homeschool Top Main 5 Learning Styles
- Practical Tips for Learning Styles
- Discovering Learning Styles
- How Understanding Homeschool Teaching Styles Makes You Successful
- 35+ Best Homeschool Curriculum By Learning Style (free printable)
- How Homeschool Learning Styles Helps You to Accept Each Childs Differences
- What Are the Top 5 Homeschool Styles
