How to Plan a Home school Schedule

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Sharon Wilharm on behalf of ExpertVillage.com. And I’d like to talk to you about the importance of scheduling in home schooling. To be a successful home schooler, you must be committed and disciplined. You can’t just home school when you feel like it. first you need to decide what time of the day works best for your family. Now generally, I have found that mornings work best for most people, you get up in the morning, you get dressed, you eat breakfast and you go to school, just as if you were going to school anywhere else or as if you had a job, you take it seriously. And you should continue until you’re done, taking a lunch break or a snack break as needed, but trying to do it as much as possible in the morning or in the early afternoon. Once you’ve been doing it awhile, then it would be alright to occasionally take off in the middle of it and come back, but you’re going to find that the concentration level is going to be a lot lower and it’s going to be a lot harder when you’ve done something else first, but your family may have a different schedule and you may have to home school in the evenings and that’s fine, you just work it around it, but you do what works best for your family. The most important thing is if you have to miss home schooling because things are going to happen because things are going to happen it always does, you need to make sure you make it up. You don’t just say well forget it, you need to make it up. If your students see that you’re committed to it and you’re dedicated, then they’re going to take it a lot more seriously.com"