Effective Home Schooling

Where To Get Home School Help

July 19th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

You will need home school help at one time or another whether you are a student or the parent of a student. Luckily, there are tons of resources on this site as well as numerous other sites on the internet. But to get you started let me share a couple resources that you should be using. The first place you should go to for help is retired school teachers. These are experienced educators who most likely have some extra time on their hands and wouldn’t mind helping out. In fact, I would suggest you get a Math and English tutor if the homeschooler’s parents is not skilled at teaching these subjects.

Home School Help For Beginners

If you are just starting out with home schooling then the first place you should go is your state’s Department of Education website. There is law surrounding home schooling and you want to make sure you are in compliance. In addition to home school law, your state’s DOE website should have resources on curriculum and resources. If it doesn’t, look at another state’s DOE website. Sign up for my newsletter to get tips on home school help and also I’ll be able to notify you when I get my links up to the DOE sites of all the 50 states.

In addition to getting home school help from the DOE, you can also check out The Home School Legal Defense Association has information available about the various laws in different states and even some other countries. The information is summarized for easy reading and understanding. The association also provides information on local home school organizations, current legal issues, and other matters central to the home school issue. There website is wealth of home school help that you will find extremely helpful.

Home School Help If You Have Already Been Home Schooling For Awhile

In addition to DOE and THSLDA, there are tons of independent websites like this one with tons of home school help. One great home school help is for the parent to become active in a local home school support group. These groups of home schooling families provide a great way for parents to discuss various home schooling topics, to provide activities outside the home and for the children to meet and befriend other home schooled children. These groups are often active in finding field trips and other educational experiences for the children to participate in. I like to do my website work in bookstore coffee shops and I often see home school groups meeting and discussing issues.

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