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Learning At Home:
A Mother's Guide To Homeschooling,
Newly Revised Edition
240 page 6" x 9" paperback
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Chapter 1
Can I Do This - Teach My Child At Home?
page 12
Before
I list the characteristics which I think are important in
order to be able to teach your child at home, let
me define what I mean by teaching. The New Lexicon Webster’s Encyclopedic
Dictionary of the English Language, Canadian Edition lists four definitions
for teach, three of which I quote “to give instruction to, to train; to
give to another knowledge or skill which one has oneself; to cause to understand.”
With this as a basis, I extend this definition to also mean being aware
of when the child is ready to receive the teaching. In other words,
just because I am ready to give my child instruction in reading doesn’t
mean my child is ready or able to receive it.
When I taught, I tried to be aware of my child’s ability,
readiness, and desire to learn a particular subject; to be sensitive to
my child’s motivation; and to be aware of my own motivation in wanting
to teach a particular something to my child. Teaching can only happen
when there is someone willing to be the learner as well as someone willing
to be the teacher. The method used to instruct needs to be suitable
to the person receiving the instruction.
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