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<\/a>Para resumir, fui a la universidad. Despu\u00e9s de ser ama de casa durante veintiocho a\u00f1os y maestra en nuestra escuela en casa desde 2001, comenc\u00e9 la universidad mientras mi esposo se encargaba de la mayor parte de la educaci\u00f3n en casa de nuestros \u00faltimos hijos. \u00a1Vaya cambio para todos!<\/span><\/p>\nTras graduarme en dise\u00f1o gr\u00e1fico \u2014y despu\u00e9s de muchos momentos de inspiraci\u00f3n divina\u2014, empec\u00e9 a trabajar como dise\u00f1adora gr\u00e1fica freelance, a dar clases a nivel universitario y, lo mejor de todo: pas\u00e9 de ser secretaria de NCHE a directora de medios. Fue otra gran transici\u00f3n, de nuevo, para todos. Les voy a contar un peque\u00f1o secreto: yo estaba asumiendo el puesto que antes ocupaba Wonder Woman (tambi\u00e9n conocida como Debbie Mason), quien tambi\u00e9n era (y sigue siendo) directora de eventos y editora de GREENHOUSE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nLa visi\u00f3n cambiante de la educaci\u00f3n en el hogar<\/b><\/p>\n
A lo largo de este camino, he aprendido much\u00edsimo, y estoy deseando compartirlo con nuestros lectores. Algo que me llam\u00f3 la atenci\u00f3n durante mi trayectoria universitaria, tanto como estudiante como docente, fue el trato que recib\u00ed al descubrir mi experiencia en la educaci\u00f3n en casa. En cada ocasi\u00f3n en que se mencionaba mi experiencia, la recib\u00edan con entusiasmo. Me preguntaban: "\u00bfC\u00f3mo podemos llegar a m\u00e1s familias que optan por la educaci\u00f3n en casa?", y me respond\u00edan repetidamente: "\u00a1Nos encantan las familias que optan por la educaci\u00f3n en casa! Les va de maravilla en nuestro programa". Esta respuesta proven\u00eda una y otra vez de jefes de departamento, profesores y administradores. Creo que esto dice mucho de la reputaci\u00f3n que se ha forjado gracias al arduo trabajo y la dedicaci\u00f3n de tantas madres y padres que, como ustedes, se dedican a brindar a sus hijos la mejor educaci\u00f3n posible. \u00a1Mam\u00e1 y pap\u00e1, sigan as\u00ed! Se est\u00e1 produciendo un cambio asombroso en la percepci\u00f3n social de la educaci\u00f3n en casa, porque ustedes se lo han ganado.<\/span><\/p>\nCuando mi madre me educ\u00f3 en casa durante mis dos \u00faltimos a\u00f1os de instituto (all\u00e1 por la d\u00e9cada de 1900, \u00bfsabes?), la actitud predominante hacia la educaci\u00f3n en el hogar era <\/span>confusi\u00f3n<\/b>-"\u00bfQu\u00e9 es eso?", <\/span>desconfianza<\/b>\u2014\u201d\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 querr\u00edas hacer eso?\u201d, y <\/span>condenaci\u00f3n<\/b>\u2014\u201dSus hijos nunca van a tener \u00e9xito\u201d. Aunque todav\u00eda nos encontramos con muchas de esas actitudes hoy en d\u00eda, nuestra sociedad se est\u00e1 dando cuenta de dos cosas. Primero, nuestras escuelas p\u00fablicas no funcionan bien. Adem\u00e1s de la violencia, la falta de recursos, los m\u00e9todos controvertidos y el aumento de las necesidades especiales para las que las escuelas no est\u00e1n preparadas, los estudiantes simplemente no est\u00e1n aprendiendo los fundamentos b\u00e1sicos que necesitan para tener una carrera exitosa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nUna de las primeras lecciones que tuvimos en dise\u00f1o gr\u00e1fico fue c\u00f3mo usar una regla. En serio. Han tenido que a\u00f1adir eso al plan de estudios. <\/span>en una universidad<\/span><\/i> porque tienen muchos estudiantes que ingresan al programa que no han aprendido a realizar la funci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica de medir una l\u00ednea recta. Adem\u00e1s de saber esto y otras habilidades elementales, escuch\u00e9 lo bien que los estudiantes educados en casa manejaban su carga de trabajo, cumpl\u00edan con los plazos, interactuaban con los dem\u00e1s (ya sabes, <\/span>socializaci\u00f3n<\/span><\/i>!), mostrando respeto por la autoridad y el rendimiento general en el aula. Esa es la segunda conclusi\u00f3n a la que llega la sociedad actual sobre la educaci\u00f3n en el hogar: \u00a1funciona! Han pasado a\u00f1os en los que los ni\u00f1os educados en el hogar se han ganado la reputaci\u00f3n de ser h\u00e1biles, preparados, respetuosos, trabajadores y, me atrevo a decir, <\/span>bien educado<\/b>!<\/span><\/p>\nEl valor de la educaci\u00f3n en el hogar<\/b><\/p>\n
Mientras tanto, en casa, mis hijos se estaban adaptando a que pap\u00e1 estuviera con ellos todo el d\u00eda. Mi esposo hac\u00eda un trabajo incre\u00edble, encarg\u00e1ndose de que estuvieran bien alimentados y con vida, adem\u00e1s de la mayor parte de su educaci\u00f3n en casa. Cada tarde, al llegar a casa, trabajaba con ellos en otras materias antes de ponerme a estudiar y hacer mis deberes. Dorm\u00ed muy poco durante esos dos a\u00f1os, pero lo superamos, y luego lleg\u00f3 la transici\u00f3n a ser una madre trabajadora.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDado que ten\u00eda \u201cmucha experiencia docente\u201d y hab\u00eda tenido un buen desempe\u00f1o en el programa, me sent\u00ed honrada de que me ofrecieran un puesto de profesora en el departamento. \u00bfCu\u00e1l era exactamente mi experiencia docente? Veintiocho a\u00f1os educando a mis hijos en casa y dirigiendo algunas clases cooperativas a lo largo de los a\u00f1os. S\u00e9 que pueden imaginar lo gratificante que fue para m\u00ed que se reconocieran de esa manera los a\u00f1os dedicados a elaborar planes de estudio, elegir el curr\u00edculo, discernir el mejor m\u00e9todo para ense\u00f1ar las distintas materias y trabajar para brindarles a mis hijos una educaci\u00f3n s\u00f3lida.<\/span><\/p>\nEso no se trataba de m\u00ed, se trataba de todos. <\/span>t\u00fa<\/span><\/i> Ah\u00ed fuera ahora mismo. Tal vez est\u00e9s haciendo sacrificios para que uno de los padres se quede en casa con los hijos, o tal vez seas un padre o madre soltero\/a que tiene que hacer doble trabajo. Todo el curr\u00edculo que revisas tratando de encontrar el adecuado. Las noches en vela preparando el siguiente d\u00eda de clases. Las cenas quemadas por hacer varias cosas a la vez mientras intentabas leer el ensayo que escribieron. La lucha por resolver el siguiente problema de matem\u00e1ticas para poder ir un paso por delante de ellos. El ingenio de construir un laboratorio de ciencias en tu cocina. La casa desordenada y las pilas de ropa sucia y la pregunta de si alguna vez te pondr\u00e1s al d\u00eda. Las l\u00e1grimas y las risas y las luchas y victorias... vale la pena todo, completa y totalmente, para tener ese tiempo con nuestros hijos, para verlos aprender y tener \u00e9xito, para construir relaciones s\u00f3lidas y bases duraderas. Pero, como dir\u00eda mi esposo, la "guinda del pastel" es que todo esto sea validado, reconocido, como la contribuci\u00f3n a la sociedad que es.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nPresentando <\/b>Enraizado<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
As\u00ed que aqu\u00ed estoy, con un a\u00f1o de docencia en la universidad a mis espaldas, un semestre por delante, y luego tendr\u00e9 el placer de volver a donde siempre ha estado mi objetivo: trabajar desde casa y dedicarme m\u00e1s a la educaci\u00f3n en casa de nuestra familia. Adem\u00e1s, me entusiasma ser la directora de medios de NCHE y, como tal, les presento nuestro blog redise\u00f1ado: <\/span>Enraizado<\/span><\/i>. En una pr\u00f3xima publicaci\u00f3n, explorar\u00e9 con ustedes el significado del logo y el nuevo nombre, as\u00ed como la nueva direcci\u00f3n que tomar\u00e1 nuestro blog. Mientras tanto, los reto a adivinar el simbolismo de nuestra nueva identidad. \u00a1Respondan en los comentarios si creen saberlo!<\/span><\/p>\nCr\u00e9dito de la foto: Hope Carroll<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Season of Transitions Hello, Reader! The NCHE Blog has finally returned. It has been three long years since we last met. In this post, I will share why we have been on a hiatus and update you on some new details about the blog. To make a long story shorter, I went to college. After being a stay-at-home mom for twenty-eight years, and the teacher in our homeschool since 2001, I started college while my husband took over most of the homeschooling of our last few children. Boy, was that a transition for everyone! After graduating with a degree in graphic design\u2013and lots of \u201cGod moments\u201d along the way, I began working as a freelance graphic designer, teaching at the college level, and, the best part: moved from the position of secretary for NCHE to media director. That was another huge transition, again, for everyone. I will let you in on a little secret: I was stepping into a role previously filled by Wonder Woman (a.k.a. Debbie Mason), who also simultaneously served (and still does) as events director and GREENHOUSE editor.\u00a0 The Changing View of Homeschooling Along the way, I have learned so much, which I can\u2019t wait to share with our readers. One thing that stood out to me on my journey through the collegiate field as student and faculty was the way I was treated once my background of homeschooling was discovered. In every situation where my experience with homeschooling came out, it was greeted with excitement. I would be asked, \u201cHow can we reach more homeschoolers?\u201d and was repeatedly told, \u201cWe love homeschoolers! They do so well in our program.\u201d That response came from department heads, professors, and administrators, over and over. I believe it speaks volumes to the reputation that has been established by the hard work and dedication of so many homeschool moms and dads out there like you who are committed to giving your child the best education possible. Mom and Dad\u2013keep up the good work! There is an amazing shift in society\u2019s view of homeschooling because you have earned it. When my mother was homeschooling me over my last two high school years (way back in the 1900s, you know), the prevailing attitude towards homeschooling was confusion\u2013\u201dWhat is that?\u201d, distrust\u2013\u201dWhy would you want to do that?\u201d, and condemnation\u2013\u201dYour children are never going to succeed.\u201d Although we still encounter plenty of those attitudes today, our society is realizing two things. One, our public schools aren\u2019t working so well. Besides the violence, lack of resources, controversial methods, and growth of special needs that schools are ill-equipped to meet, students simply aren\u2019t learning basic foundations that they need for successful careers.\u00a0 One of the first lessons we had in graphic design was how to use a ruler. Seriously. They have had to add that to the curriculum at a college because they have so many students entering the program that haven\u2019t learned how to carry out the basic function of measuring a straight line. Besides knowing this and other elementary skills, I heard how well homeschoolers were at managing their course load, meeting deadlines, interacting with others (you know, socialization!), showing respect for authority, and overall classroom performance. That is the second realization that today\u2019s society is reaching about homeschooling\u2013it works! Years have now gone by of homeschool children earning a reputation for being adept, prepared, respectful, hardworking, and, dare I say, well-educated! The Value of the Homeschool Journey Meanwhile, back at my home, my children were adjusting to Daddy being the one home with them all day. My husband was doing an amazing job at the incredible task of keeping them alive and fed, while doing most of their homeschooling with them. When I got home each afternoon, I would work with them on other subjects before opening my own books to get my homework done. There was very little sleep for me those two years, but we made it through them, and then the transition to being a working mother came.\u00a0 Since I \u201chad so much teaching experience,\u201d and had performed well in the program, I was honored to be offered a teaching position in the department. Just what was my teaching experience? Twenty-eight years of homeschooling my children and leading a few co-op classes over the years. I know you can imagine how validating it felt to have the years of making lesson plans, choosing curriculum, discerning the best method to teach the various subjects, and working to give my children a solid education be acknowledged in that way. That wasn\u2019t about me\u2013that was about all of you out there right now. Maybe you are making sacrifices for one parent to stay home with your children, or maybe you are a single parent having to do double-duty. All the curriculum you go through trying to find the right one. The late nights preparing for the next day of school. The burned dinners from multitasking while you tried to read the essay they wrote. The struggle to figure out the next math problem so you can stay one step ahead of them. The ingenuity of building a science lab in your kitchen. The messy house and piles of laundry and wondering if you\u2019ll ever catch up. The tears and laughter and struggles and victories\u2026worth it all fully and completely to have that time with our children, to see them learn and succeed, to build strong relationships and lasting foundations. But, as my husband would say, the \u201cicing on the cake\u201d is to have it all be validated, acknowledged, as the contribution to society that it is.\u00a0 Introducing Rooted So now here I am, one year of teaching at the college behind me, one semester remaining, and then I will have the pleasure of being back where my goal has been all along, working from home and doing more of our family\u2019s homeschooling. In addition, I am thrilled to serve as NCHE\u2019s media director and as such, I introduce you to our redesigned blog: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[105,113,145,147,233,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nche-blog","category-encouragement","category-considering-homeschooling","category-high-school","category-reasons-to-homeschool","category-family-life"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgvs5H-dPF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53181,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175\/revisions\/53181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}