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Top Five Reasons Home Schooling is Better Than Traditional Education

In just the past decade alone the popularity of home schooling has grown in leaps and bounds and has begun to revolutionize the world of learning and education. As we know, the great importance of a child’s education simply cannot be emphasized enough. But, for many parents, the public school system has not lived up to their expectations leaving them to take matters into their own hands and home school their children.

Here are the five top reasons home schooling is considered by many parents and guardians to be better than traditional education.

1. Home Schooling Allows for Individualized Attention

Overcrowded classrooms, stressed teachers, and children with discipline problems are all common in schools today. All children can thrive and excel when given individualized attention, something that just isn’t possible in the public school system.

2. Home Schooling Offers Flexibility

It allows parents to choose the schedules and times for learning, both in terms of hours as well as months. Some parents choose to home school their kids year round while others follow the more traditional schedule of August or September until May or June.

Beyond the aspect of time flexibility, it also allows for adapting the curriculum to each child’s learning style or capabilities. Children are all individuals and should be encouraged to continuing exploring their individuality and uniqueness. One child may learn better through hearing and listening while another might progress better through reading and home schooling allows the parent to tailor the curriculum accordingly to encourage success.

3. Home Schooling Creates Time for Bonding

One of the main complaints of parents today is not having enough quality time with their children. With the fast paced lives many of us lead coupled with extracurricular activities and work there’s often little time for parents and kids to actually talk and listen to one another.

Creating a strong bond between parent and child early on lessens the chances of trouble down the road as children are faced with things like peer pressure, changing bodies and hormones, stress at school, and problems with friends, just to name a few. Continue Reading

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Top Ten Teaching Professions

The top ten teaching professions are those that are most popular, most in demand and/or highest paying. Whatever teaching profession you choose, you’ll find that a teaching degree will always enable you to find a faculty opening in a high demand area. People who hold education degrees will always have jobs available for them in our society. But the following top 10 teaching professions are currently providing some of the best opportunities around:

  1. Spanish teachers
  2. English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers
  3. Special education teachers
  4. Math teachers
  5. Science teachers
  6. Principals
  7. Assistant principals
  8. Superintendents
  9. Other administrators
  10. Overseas teachers

Bilingual teachers, including Spanish teachers and ESL teachers, are highly in demand right now as the United States continues to grow more diverse. This diverse demographic has presented some challenges, and bilingual teachers are the best equipped to meet these challenges head-on. Since Spanish speaking students make up the largest population of students whose native language is not English, Spanish speaking teachers are the most sought after today. Being bilingual simply opens up more job opportunities.

Special education teachers are some of the most sought after these days, but the job does come with some trials as well. Some school districts have started hiring candidates who are not yet certified in special education, but are currently pursuing their teaching degrees, and then paying for the classes they need for full certification. There is no doubt that math and science teachers are highly in demand as well. Continue Reading

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