{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Nordkaroliner f\u00fcr h\u00e4usliche Bildung","provider_url":"https:\/\/nche.com\/de","author_name":"Ivey Deitz","author_url":"https:\/\/nche.com\/de\/author\/iveydeitz\/","title":"What to Teach When - North Carolinians for Home Education","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tRBjMZqpE6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/de\/what-to-teach-when\/\">Was wann unterrichten<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/de\/what-to-teach-when\/embed\/#?secret=tRBjMZqpE6\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8222;What to Teach When&#8220; &#8211; North Carolinians for Home Education\" data-secret=\"tRBjMZqpE6\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/nche.com\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WhatToTeachWhen_1000.jpg","thumbnail_width":1000,"thumbnail_height":345,"description":"[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; column_structure=&#8221;2_3,1_3&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243;]Fall 2018 \/ by Ivey Deitz How does a homeschool parent know what to teach and when to teach it? What do children need to learn to prepare them for their future? What resources are available to make sure your homeschool is on track as your children progress through middle and high school? A parent can feel clueless as their children advance in their school years. They may worry about whether they should cover a certain topic to prepare the child for what lies ahead. For example, should your homeschool do only the basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic? Is learning cursive important? How much should be done each year with history or science? What do I do about foreign languages? Feeling comfortable with children in the younger years is more common, but time can seem to fly by, and high school, and eventually college and careers, are right around the corner. Do you stick with what you what you have been doing, then figure out down the road that there is an entire subject that you should have been learning all along? Questions about scope and sequence were recently asked on one of the Facebook homeschool groups I follow. I chimed in, along with a few other veteran homeschool moms from the Hickory area. The responses below were compiled, in no particular order, from the site and show the advice of different individuals. Base your high school classes on the North Carolina graduation requirements. Do not be too strict but use the requirements as a guide. For example, one of the four needed English classes could be focused on an interest of your child\u2014such as sports, space, and science fiction. Not all literature has to be classical. In math, if the child is planning to go to a four-year university, you may want to teach the higher levels. But if a child is planning to go to a community college or directly into the workforce, subjects like consumer math, business math, or stewardship might fit. You can have a basic list of what you need to accomplish each year of school but be flexible with each child and base their education on who they are and their plans for the future. You have to be a student of your child to help them look at the second part\u2014whom they hope to become. Watch them, pay attention to what they like, even if you think it is not something they can use later in life, like still building with Legos in high school. Maybe that says the child will be an engineer! Follow their cues and tailor their classes to their interests to help get them to get where they need to be. And relax. You will not make a mistake, really! Adjustments can be made down the road. Your students are not stuck in one place, to one plan, and their lives are not ruined if you do not give them a certain class in high school or have them take a certain college-bound test. They can do it later if they need it\u2014when they need it. If they want something, they will do it when they want it. Sometimes, we have to back off and let them take the long road. When you have a middle schooler, prayerfully assess his strengths and weaknesses, compare them to the North Carolina graduation requirements, talk with him directly, and come up with a plan. There are strength-finder type tests available to use if you need assistance. There will always be gaps\u2014and hindsight is 20\/20! Teach your children how to learn\u2014 teach them character\/morals\/faith and equip them with the vision of the future that they The results will be amazing. Putting together curriculum from several different sources and changing curriculum yearly can be difficult. Follow through with one company. You can start out by teaching your children yourself, but if you hit a wall in a subject, then you can move to the company\u2019s online curriculum and become an assistant to your child\u2019s learning. This move will keep you on track for all K-12 and avoid some gaps. This strategy works well with one student. If you are teaching multiple children, you can use this method to teach more independent learning, helping more with the younger children, and leaving the heavy lifting for the older, and keep to the same boxed sets. A benefit of using this method is to have the curriculum purchased for the first, and not having to get anything more for the younger children except some workbooks. Trying to stick with one curriculum may be difficult, since each child may learn very differently. Some homeschoolers may not have issues with putting curricula together and finding what works best for their family. To do this, use a list of suggested classes from books discussing what to learn when, or the North Carolina graduation requirements. Look for a scope and sequence list online to follow. Get a catalog that sells homeschool curriculum\u2014one that is listed by grade levels. Follow that as you are putting together classes for the coming year. Easy! Check out NCHE\u2019s curriculum page at https:\/\/nche.com\/helps\/curriculum\/ and use it as a guide. Read articles on homeschool scope and sequences, then make a skeleton framework based on them. Pull ideas together from various sources. Yes, there will be gaps, but there are gaps in everyone\u2019s education, even public and private schoolers. Look at packaged grade-level curriculum sets for inspiration. You do not have to use them exclusively but take the aspects you like and create a plan. Keep the basics in mind: reading, writing (including grammar\/spelling) and arithmetic, plus history and science. It helps to stick with the same curriculum for certain subjects, like math, or ones that you do not feel confident teaching. You may not want to do a boxed set for every subject but having the continuity with some subjects helps to avoid gaps. You [&hellip;]"}