Homeschooling at the Click of a Mouse!

Homeschooling can be both a wonderful and difficult task.  It is wonderful because you have the opportunity to truly guide the instruction of your child.  It becomes difficult when you have to choose materials and a curriculum that will target all the many things that a student needs to learn in order to be successful.  eTutor makes homeschooling wonderful every day of the week!  We make a difficult task, a wonderful task!

Key reasons for home educating:

1. Transfer beliefs and values to children
2. Close family relationships
3. Controlled/positive peer social interactions
4. Quality academics
5. Alternative approaches to teaching and learning
6. Safety

Science, statistics, and studies are wonderful but sometimes they are little more than verifications of obvious truths.  We know, for example, that if you smile at a student he will learn more than if you criticize him.  People do better with praise, encouragement, and expressed confidence than they do with humiliation, impatience, and indifference.

If human beings could be perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive, then they would thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Every student needs to develop a core of essential knowledge with which to negotiate the world.  From the very beginning, students need to see connections…not a slice of science, a slice of history, a slice of literature.

Students keep asking “Why?” precisely because they are looking for relationships and patterns.  “Why?” is a curiosity question.  “Will this be on the test?” is a conformity question.