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Home School High School ~One Month In
High School. Independent study time! YEAH! I can do this! Easy as pie, hand out the work now! Go for it!
I thought it would be a breeze, set up the lessons get the work planned out and get down to work!
I did not look at the work as a problem, as long as it was school work what would the problem be?
Problem: You have to read the work to find the answers.
Answer: Read the work.
Problem: Teenager does not want to do the reading in order to find the answer, teen wants to know it all!
Sure we can laugh at the jokes about the teen who knew it all from the time they turned 13 until the day when they turned 21 and realized that Mom and Dad actually knew what they were talking about. Or maybe the one that tells a teen to solve the worlds problems while they still know it all?
When it comes down to it we have to study to show ourselves approved, either by the Lord via the Word and Truth, or by the teacher/parent grading our work. Whatever we do in life we have to study to learn how to do it.
A young man went to work at a new job recently and found there was a lot of things to learn about. I was amazed when he told me he enjoyed being taught how to do things that his last job had just assumed he knew how to do and set him to task.
Though he did well at the job prior to this one he found it to be tiring and frustrating at times. The new job how ever had a ton of more things to learn about and he found it exhilarating, and even enjoyable to learn and work at it!
So what is the lesson we can learn from this? We need to be taught in the correct way to do things in order to enjoy doing them the correct way.
We as Home School High School teachers have taken on a huge challenge but if we do not teach them in the correct way, whether they like it or not, they will not learn to do it in the correct way.
It would be so easy to just 'put in the time' of school each day and say we did our hours. What I like about my state is I don't have to turn in a card that says how many hours I taught, I just have to teach them the work. They can't do the work if I don't teach it.
How I teach is up to me, or rather how I teach is up to my student's learning ability allows. Some kids learn by seeing, others by doing, still others learn by doing while seeing. First we figure out what way to teach, then we find the tools to do so.
There are so many things we can use to teach as well! Libraries are full of DVDs with instruction on many things from Geography to sports, you just have to pop in a video and watch the 'film strip' to learn about some countries around the world today. Add to that a bit of written work and you have a curriculum for Geographical study!
I could just let my son watch television all day and call that school, but I won't. I believe I student needs the interaction of a teachers instruction added to reading and interactive type of lessons in order to get a full rounded lesson.
I would probably call us school at home meets eclectic schooling. We have our own way of doing things with a mix of computer plus book work and a splash of dvd learning added in with lecture work.
My schedule was going to look like this:
Bible
Math
short snack break
History
Language Arts
Lunch break
Constitution
Science
Spanish
PE/ Computer-Art alternating.
Instead it looks more like;
Bible / History Alternating
Attentively encourage learning here.
History/Math off and on days in this time slot.
Remind student to return to school work and stop watching videos.
Language Arts - for about an hour of complaining occasionally.
Math if I forgot to remind him.
Lunch
SOS classes an play games on the side when Mom is not looking.
So much for Independent study I thought.
But then I started grading his work.
I begrudgingly grabbed my teacher manuals turned to the proper pages and began what I thought would be a chore.
As I went through the work it was better and better. He was really getting it! With each book my smile would grow! Geometry was easy! I took out my staples "That was easy!"stamp and started stamping the lessons1 He was doing such a good job with the less independent study that I figured I must have failed. So I tried another week; this time writing out the list as we used to do with what he had to do each day. He could check it off as he went. Things went by with out much trouble the rest of the month. I would get stressed and then grade and relax.
Still good grades, he can work both ways. I can teach him to do things on his own while I am near by.
I am afraid it will be this way for a year now. Cycle of frustration and acceptance and encouragement and even an argument here and there. What it all comes down to is that we are the teachers, the parents, the authority for the teen to rebel against. When they all come in one package then we are in for a fun surprise!
We will need to persevere to keep on keeping on and to look to the Lord for strength. Just as our students are having so much information crammed into their brains in four years time, so we are learning a lot in this time period.
In the end the student will go on to College or trade school and get the degree that God has planned for them if we do it right!
Just remember to keep things in perspective. School teaching is different than being mom or dad, we have to be able to peel off the teacher at the end of the day and become the loving encouraging fun loving parent who will nurture the child in our teens into a grown adult who will know we are there for them no matter what.
Schedules or lists do not matter as much as time spend with quality learning, teaching to the student and allowing them to move along as their own pace. Oh, and remember that sometimes life gets in the way make some changes, that's one of the blessings of home school we can make adjustments and keep on learning!
I must remember the statement my dear son said at 'Legoland' theme park while identifying' cities with his grandparents " ... that's because I home school and when you home school the learning never ends! If you want to know about something, or someplace you just look it up!"
Be blessed and not stressed!
I thought it would be a breeze, set up the lessons get the work planned out and get down to work!
I did not look at the work as a problem, as long as it was school work what would the problem be?
Problem: You have to read the work to find the answers.
Answer: Read the work.
Problem: Teenager does not want to do the reading in order to find the answer, teen wants to know it all!
Sure we can laugh at the jokes about the teen who knew it all from the time they turned 13 until the day when they turned 21 and realized that Mom and Dad actually knew what they were talking about. Or maybe the one that tells a teen to solve the worlds problems while they still know it all?
When it comes down to it we have to study to show ourselves approved, either by the Lord via the Word and Truth, or by the teacher/parent grading our work. Whatever we do in life we have to study to learn how to do it.
A young man went to work at a new job recently and found there was a lot of things to learn about. I was amazed when he told me he enjoyed being taught how to do things that his last job had just assumed he knew how to do and set him to task.
Though he did well at the job prior to this one he found it to be tiring and frustrating at times. The new job how ever had a ton of more things to learn about and he found it exhilarating, and even enjoyable to learn and work at it!
So what is the lesson we can learn from this? We need to be taught in the correct way to do things in order to enjoy doing them the correct way.
We as Home School High School teachers have taken on a huge challenge but if we do not teach them in the correct way, whether they like it or not, they will not learn to do it in the correct way.
It would be so easy to just 'put in the time' of school each day and say we did our hours. What I like about my state is I don't have to turn in a card that says how many hours I taught, I just have to teach them the work. They can't do the work if I don't teach it.
How I teach is up to me, or rather how I teach is up to my student's learning ability allows. Some kids learn by seeing, others by doing, still others learn by doing while seeing. First we figure out what way to teach, then we find the tools to do so.
There are so many things we can use to teach as well! Libraries are full of DVDs with instruction on many things from Geography to sports, you just have to pop in a video and watch the 'film strip' to learn about some countries around the world today. Add to that a bit of written work and you have a curriculum for Geographical study!
I could just let my son watch television all day and call that school, but I won't. I believe I student needs the interaction of a teachers instruction added to reading and interactive type of lessons in order to get a full rounded lesson.
I would probably call us school at home meets eclectic schooling. We have our own way of doing things with a mix of computer plus book work and a splash of dvd learning added in with lecture work.
My schedule was going to look like this:
Bible
Math
short snack break
History
Language Arts
Lunch break
Constitution
Science
Spanish
PE/ Computer-Art alternating.
Instead it looks more like;
Bible / History Alternating
Attentively encourage learning here.
History/Math off and on days in this time slot.
Remind student to return to school work and stop watching videos.
Language Arts - for about an hour of complaining occasionally.
Math if I forgot to remind him.
Lunch
SOS classes an play games on the side when Mom is not looking.
So much for Independent study I thought.
But then I started grading his work.
I begrudgingly grabbed my teacher manuals turned to the proper pages and began what I thought would be a chore.
As I went through the work it was better and better. He was really getting it! With each book my smile would grow! Geometry was easy! I took out my staples "That was easy!"stamp and started stamping the lessons1 He was doing such a good job with the less independent study that I figured I must have failed. So I tried another week; this time writing out the list as we used to do with what he had to do each day. He could check it off as he went. Things went by with out much trouble the rest of the month. I would get stressed and then grade and relax.
Still good grades, he can work both ways. I can teach him to do things on his own while I am near by.
I am afraid it will be this way for a year now. Cycle of frustration and acceptance and encouragement and even an argument here and there. What it all comes down to is that we are the teachers, the parents, the authority for the teen to rebel against. When they all come in one package then we are in for a fun surprise!
We will need to persevere to keep on keeping on and to look to the Lord for strength. Just as our students are having so much information crammed into their brains in four years time, so we are learning a lot in this time period.
Just remember to keep things in perspective. School teaching is different than being mom or dad, we have to be able to peel off the teacher at the end of the day and become the loving encouraging fun loving parent who will nurture the child in our teens into a grown adult who will know we are there for them no matter what.
Schedules or lists do not matter as much as time spend with quality learning, teaching to the student and allowing them to move along as their own pace. Oh, and remember that sometimes life gets in the way make some changes, that's one of the blessings of home school we can make adjustments and keep on learning!
I must remember the statement my dear son said at 'Legoland' theme park while identifying' cities with his grandparents " ... that's because I home school and when you home school the learning never ends! If you want to know about something, or someplace you just look it up!"
Be blessed and not stressed!
What Did You Expect?
In His Word, 10-3-11
What did you expect?
When you came to Jesus?
What did you expect?
Did you expect to be ‘Saved,’
--To be healed or cleansed?
Did you expect to be delivered?
And made whole again?
How did you find Him?
Did you look in a book?
Or was He under the table,
Under the bed? In the nook?
What did you ask for?
That’s what you received,
His love, His direction, His pardon…
No fees!
For examples of patience in suffering, dear brothers and sisters, look at the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. We give great honor to those who endure under suffering. For instance, you know about Job, a man of great endurance. You can see how the Lord was kind to him at the end, for the Lord is full of tenderness and mercy. James 5:10-11
“A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed. And all nations will hate you because you are my followers. But everyone who endures to the end will be saved. When the son of man will return before you have reached all the towns of Israel
I was wondering today what we expected when we came to the Lord.
I wondered because I was reading in Mathew about the disciples and Jesus being in a boat and a big storm came up.
Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples. Suddenly, a fierce storm stuck the lake with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him up shouting, “Lord save us! We’re going to drown!”
Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly there was a great calm.
The disciples were amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked. “Even the winds and waves obey him!” Matthew 8:23-37
They cried out to Jesus, who was asleep, “Wake up and save us!”
And when He did they were amazed that he spoke to the wind and waves.
I wondered—what did they expect him to do? Row them to shore? Bail water out of the boat? Maybe they thought he would give them some advice on how to swim?
Seriously, what did they expect?
Then I started thinking, what I expected recently when I prayed for a need to be met and it was; I was so amazed that my prayer was received!
Or when I asked God to heal my torn shoulder a few years back, and He did?
Or when I prayed for my son to get a job, and he got one; not where I would have chosen miles wise but he got one just the same.
When we take the time to pray we need to know what we are wanting as an outcome. We need to know what God will do, and then trust that that is what will happen.
Why? Because we pray the prayer of faith!
How? By trusting Him we exhibit our faith in Him and He sees that faith and knows that we will receive what He is doing in our lives through this blessing of an answered prayer.
He tells us in Matthew 11 to take His Yoke upon us. This means He will direct us where we should go, sure there will be a burden but it will not be heavy because we trust Him to guide us. You know when an ox or horse gets caught up in the yoke they can stumble and we all know what they did to horses when they stumbled and fell. Thank God when we stumble he gets us back up and reattaches us to the Yoke and allows us to follow where He is directing us. It allows us to pull the equipment that is too hard for us to put on our back alone. The Yoke adjusts the weight of our burdens that they will be miraculously lightened. Then we can plow the soil of our life and make it ready.
Jesus answers our needs, He supplies our wants, and gives us the desires of our heart. Why are we so surprised when He answers in a supernatural way? Who do we think He is?
For that matter, look again at Matthew 8, they didn’t comment on the calmness that followed such a fierce storm, just that Jesus spoke to it and it listened.
Do we do the same thing? Do we enjoy the calm after the storm or are we so frantic wondering how He did it that we miss the peace that came?
When we take the Yoke we will accept Who He is. We will know that what He says, what He does is of the Father and we will know to follow whatever He tells us to do.
When the ground seems hard, or rocky, we can say to ourselves “no worries”. We can know that the peace and promise of the soft land will be there at the end; if just we endure the terrain.
Dear Heavenly Father, help us to endure to the end that we will be saved in the storms. Help us to endure to the end of the trials we must live through and to keep our sights on You and Your direction in our lives. Help us to take Your Yoke upon us that the burden may be lessened. In Jesus name, amen.
Suggested reading Matthew 10: 1-22, Matthew 11:1-30, Mark 13:1-37, and Matthew 24:1-51
In His love,
Teresa M. Wilson
Copyright © 2011
by Teresa M. Wilson.
by Teresa M. Wilson.
Rom 8:24-25
For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
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