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Feel Inadequate as a Homeschool Teacher? You Might Be Surprised!

Feel Inadequate as a Homeschool Teacher? You Might Be Surprised!

SHARON’S BLOG

Do you remember those organized desks and huge blackboards from your school days? And do you feel inadequate that you do your school at a kitchen table?

Did you use a large, up-to-date microscope in your old biology class but now feel scientifically deficient because you have a child’s version for your little school?

Do you imagine professionals teaching daily in your local school—and agonize over the educational experience you are giving your children?

Feeling inadequate

I homeschooled for eighteen years, and there was not one year in which I felt I was totally doing it “right.” I always felt inadequate. On some level I always wondered if my kids could have gotten a better education somewhere else.

With logic, I can look back and assure myself that I have given my three children a very good education and a safe and spiritual environment. I was not a slacker: All of my students scored higher than the national average on their SAT scores. My brain pats me on the back and assures me that I ran a good race, but my heart still stumbles with thoughts of inadequacy and failure.

Where I failed

And I did fail in some things. The following are a few areas in which I failed.

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How to Motivate Your Homeschool Student

How to Motivate Your Homeschool Student

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One of your students has submitted a stellar report on a country, including a baked and painted salt-flour-water topography of a particular geographic feature. Another drags his feet and submits a writing assignment late.

You want to reward the one and motivate the other. What can you do?

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Three Ways to Get Your Children Writing Again


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Get students writing againSome kids hate writing essays, and off the top of their heads they can give you 97 reasons why this is so.

When I teach my writing course locally, some students are bound to come to the first class with a “don’t even bother trying to teach me” attitude. They believe they are so far gone that they are unteachable.

I disagree.

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What She Said Surprised Me


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She Said WhatRecently I picked up my order at a local bookstore for a Book-of-the-Month Club I teach.  The clerk asked me about the books because it was an unusual number, about thirty.  When I explained that I was teaching literature to some homeschool teens, she came back with this surprising response:

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