Pros & Cons of Home Schooling

Series Summary

Are you thinking of home schooling your children? Prior to 1852, there was no compulsory schooling law enforced and most children received their early education at home. Throughout the history of civilization there have been movements in homeschooling and early education. The most modern movement of homeschooling began in the 1960s and 1970s when Ray and Dorothy Moore, professional education workers, began to question the validity of early education. There are millions of children being educated at home and hundreds of thousands more worldwide.

In this free series of how-to home schooling videos, our expert educator Jennifer Miller gives you an overview of teaching geography to your student at home. She discusses statistics culled from public school students, then tells you how you can make sure that your homeschooled student can do much better. What are the standards and categories we should teach our children about geography? How can geography can be woven into other subjects? Learn all of this and more in this enlightening lesson for both you and your favorite student.

Video Transcript

"I'm Jennifer Miller with the institute for reality on behalf of Expert Village. Hi my name is Jennifer Miller and I am with the institute for REALITY which stands for reform in education and living instruction for the young. We do educational consulting and curriculum design for families that home school. Our curriculum is a blend of the Classical, and Charlottle Mason approaches to education and today we are going to talk about teaching geography at home. We also produce a free monthly news letter as an encouragement to families more recently we have an organization that's called the adventure project. Which is dedicated to encouraging living education and adventure within families. We homeschooled our four children from birth, they are now 5,7,9,and 11. And we believe homeschooling education can provide a unique environment for your child where there individual strengths can be maximized and their weaknesses can be built upon which will allow you to customize the education to the child. And one of the unique things about home education is you can focus on things that are not necessarily focused on in other educational environments to the extent that they should be and one of those things is geography."