subject: Homeschooling High School - Challenges and Rewards [print this page] Homeschooling High School - Challenges and Rewards
Homeschooling high school is not for every student and his home educator parent or guardian. The high school years are challenging ones due to the very nature of the teen years and this should be a well thought out decision. Learning good study skills and self-discipline is even more important for the homeschooling student. The advantages of developing strong life skills with a personalized education can launch a young adult well prepared for the rights and responsibilities that come with that eighteenth birthday.
There is a vast selection of curriculum options - often one of the greatest challenges! A key decision to make is how structured or formal your curriculum will be. If an accredited diploma is important to you, narrow down the choices to those that offer one. There are many online options and correspondence curricula that offer this for today's student. These may be frustrating to some learners, so it is necessary to understand how the student learns best. These are generally the more costly options as well.
A home educator can design her own curriculum by using many guidelines available through books written just for that purpose. The local library or bookstore can help you with this as well as some of the amazingly rich online resource sites for homeschooling. Designing your own curriculum will mean that your student will need to take the GED to serve as his high school qualification after graduation, but a GED is accepted now at most colleges, workplaces, etc. A transcript of courses that is usually not more than a list and brief description of courses with the final grade given by the homeschooling parent is necessary for college entrance.
