| If you decide to home school your child, you can | | | | better. The uniqueness of this model is that all |
| decide on the curriculum according to the methods | | | | subjects are taught via any one subject. |
| that you choose to employ in the home schooling | | | | Generally, the subjects included in a model study unit |
| process. If the instructions are imparted at home | | | | comprise of the art of effective language usage that |
| under the supervision of correspondence schools, | | | | in turn helps to develop skills in reading, writing and |
| that too is referred to as home schooling or home | | | | comprehension. The study of mathematics is |
| education and the curriculum is provided by the | | | | essential to first assess the level of understanding of |
| supervising school. The term un-schooling refers to a | | | | the child and then give him lessons to develop |
| system of study that is curriculum free and the child | | | | problems solving skills. Geography or the social |
| learns as per his own preferences. | | | | sciences are also included to acquaint the child with |
| In home schooling, if you choose to employ the | | | | location, time periods and inventions. The child learns |
| classical education method, it would be similar to | | | | science to cover his understanding of plants, animals |
| modern education, as understood in the western | | | | and the input on other related topics. To give a |
| world today. In one phase the student learns | | | | boost to the creativity of the learner, he is exposed |
| grammar, logic and rhetoric. Grammar consists of | | | | to drawing, designing, acting and painting too. The |
| language skills to acquire the maximum possible | | | | child is taught music and through the music he is able |
| words, concepts and effective usage. Logic develops | | | | to learn about the cultural backgrounds of places to |
| the art of proper reasoning in the child. Rhetoric is | | | | which the music is associated. History is taught too |
| geared towards criticizing your own work and being | | | | and can be used to establish a relationship with other |
| able to influence others. In the other phase the | | | | subjects. Physical education is another subject that |
| student learns maths, music and other subjects. | | | | would require the parents to introduce the child to an |
| In home school unit study the curriculum requires the | | | | exercise regime and then try to connect other |
| child to learn a number of subjects, to be periodically | | | | subjects to the discipline. For example, the child can |
| evaluated through tests for the level of knowledge | | | | be introduced to Olympic history through effective |
| he has acquired. In this system, the interests of the | | | | physical education training. |
| child are determined and then the subjects to be | | | | Home schooling in the un-schooling model is curriculum |
| taught are selected. Once this is done, the parents | | | | free. However, even when informal, parents need to |
| need to use innovative means and methods to make | | | | design a curriculum that is flexible. It would vary from |
| the learning process more interesting and | | | | one student to the other, depending on the individual |
| comprehensible to the child. There are many | | | | requirement, interest and learning ability. It can be |
| ready-made unit study curriculums available, but | | | | modified any time during the period of learning, if |
| parents can create their own study model, which | | | | found to be in the best interest of the child. |
| they think is best suited to enable the child to learn | | | | |