HOW MUCH TIME WILL HOMESCHOOLING TAKE EACH DAY? Chapter 4

HOW MUCH TIME WILL HOMESCHOOLING TAKE EACH DAY? Chapter 4

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One of the greatest advantages of homeschooling is the fact that it typically results in a shorter school day than for traditionally schooled students. In a classroom of 30, 20, even 10 students, allowances must be made for the fact that there are several different students in the class, all of whom approach learning differently. Teachers must be able to competently manage several different students, with different learning styles, at different levels, with different personalities and attention spans. Such an undertaking takes time; there are no shortcuts.

By contrast, a homeschooled student can learn a concept much more quickly; there are few if any other students to complicate the learning process (depending on the number of siblings being homeschooled), and the learning can be individualized to meet the student’s specific needs and learning style. Understandably, a student can move through a lesson much more quickly as an individual, than they can as part of a group. And the larger the group (a classroom of 10, or 20, or 30), the longer the process takes. In addition, because the method of delivery for learning in homeschool is not narrowly defined, the ”book” learning part of the day (often described as “seat time”) can be separated from more kinesthetic activities, and may therefore take even less time. Giving a specific number of hours that a homeschooler’s day may take is an impossibility, obviously; but know that it is a shorter process, yet arguably more effective.