Homeschooling Children with Special Needs
"One of the first things you learn as a “special needs parent” is that other families who have traveled this path ahead of you are your best sources of wisdom and support. Once you stop reeling from shock, get your bearings and figure out a thing or two, then you get to pay it forward." "One of the biggest challenges for all home educators is figuring out how to get it all done in a day, and maintain your sanity while doing it." "This list, which will continue to be expanded over time, is intended to survey teaching approaches and then highlight free math and computing resources for special needs students. It is meant to highlight some of the more actionable resources currently available for parents and educators who are trying to provide the best support they can." My personal collection of instructional curriculum resources that I created while in college. (Find curriculum and resources for teaching children with special needs at home.) "Homeschooling offers a truly individualized educational experience! It gives you amazing freedom and flexibility to mold curriculum and schedules to meet your child’s unique needs. Come on in and let us help you create your student’s personalized path to confident learning."
Differentiating Instruction Made Simple
Differentiating Instruction Made Simple
For Students with and without Disabilities
- Class Source is a non-profit class program assisting home educating parents to fulfill their responsibilities by locating and securing qualified independent instructors to enrich individual home education programs through lecture and interactive group classes, course work pacing, and accountability. Tampa Bay area. Class Source serves the Tampa Bay area giving parents and children the chance to interact with like-minded families, engage in small group activities, and form meaningful, God glorifying community connections.
Online ProgramsTop 10 Tips For Parents Who Are Dominating Distance Learning - The Gateway (frontierinternet.com)"Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them offline, come back to quiz on what they’ve read,and earn prizes for their reading success." This works just like Accelerated Reader in the School System, but it is free to homeschoolers! The first Christian Online curriculum. I used Time4Learning for years, but I love this so much more because it is spiritually edifying and academically challenging. There is a lot of writing, but I love that! I have the choice to skip any projects or assignments I don't want my kids to do. I love the the customer service and usability of the website. We have just finished our first year and it has been amazing to watch my kids grow academically and spiritually. Use the following code to access 2 week free trial at Time4Learning.com: T4U
I have used Time4Learning for nearly 2 years now. I am a licensed special educator,and have decided to home school my two children. My daughter is eight years old and has mild autism as well as ADHD. She cannot learn in a classroom environment and can even become anxious with one-on-one sessions. Time4Learning allows her to work in an engaging manner that is perfectly paced for her. She was absolutely fascinated by all of the non-fiction lessons in Language Arts Extensions that she completed all of the lessons in less than 6 weeks. She is also a grade level ahead in Math, but she continues a regular pace with second grade Language Arts. I am able to pull up the Common Core based lesson plans and create a checklist of assignments that I think she should complete each day or allow her to work at her own pace. My son has completed kindergarten with Time4Learning and is now in their first grade program. I give him a checklist of the activities he should complete each day in Language Arts and Language Arts Extensions because he can complete them without assistance. Then, we do math together. He really loves seeing what the Math characters are going to do next. He loves Geo. I love the options in additional resources because I can select what is right for my child. The Science and Social Studies lessons are so much fun that my kids are very far ahead in those subjects. I don't have to worry about keeping attendance records or quiz results because they are all in my account and I can monitor my children's progress or print out their reports to share with school officials. I have combined my own expertise with Time4Learning and other online resources to create a pacing guide for each of my children that is fun and perfectly tailored to their educational needs. I do not believe that any program can serve all of a students educational needs but Time4Leaning is the backbone of my children's curriculum. If you want to see some of the pacing guides I have created using Time4Learning, you can access them from the following site: http://curriculumresourcepacket.weebly.com/homeschool.html. Oh, I almost forgot how incredibly affordable Time4Learning is. I only pay $35.00 a month for educating 2 children. No other home school program could offer that, and Time4Learning offers a top quality curriculum. ("a global education initiative of Age of Learning, Inc. Our goal is to help children build a strong foundation for future academic success by providing a comprehensive and engaging online curriculum to greatly assist early learners to succeed in pre-k, kindergarten, and early elementary school programs") Extra Practice and Fun Learning
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Other ResourcesFlorida (Answers to all your questions about homeschool laws and requirements in Florida.)
North Carolina Home School Group All Homeschoolers Official Webpage of Practical Homeschooling Magazine Step-by-step instructions to conduct science experiments at home by taking advantage of our co-op purchasing power, you can save 20%-90% on your homeschool curriculum. By pooling the purchasing power of our entire membership, we are able to call major educational publishers and homeschooling curriculum providers and ask for the same discounts they give school districts.
Pen Pal Opportunities (Find a friend for your child to write to from nearly any country in the world.) We sponsor 4 children from various countries around the world. Each child we sponsor was born on the exact same day as each of our children. Each of our children has a child to pray for and give to on their birthday. This also gives them a peer in another country to write to and learn from. This process is life changing for the family receiving aid and our children who are learning about life outside of their own country. Bible and Christian Education Resources (Help your child learn their books of the Bible and other Bible basics through fun games.) (Buy individual homeschool subjects written with a Biblical world view.) (Jelly Telly is from the creators of Veggie Tales and What's in the Bible, and offerss a nearly infinite number of Christian Videos for children. You can access all of the content for only $5 a month.) "We Choose Virtues utilizes 5 effective teaching methods to help you integrate Virtue into the lives of your kids. This is not seat work. It is the face-to-face teaching that children LOVE." "From Doorposts' inception in 1990, our mission has been to supply you with Bible-based, parent-designed, family-tested products to help you apply Scripture in your home." English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources Effective and Engaging Online Lesson Plans for K-12 Educators http://curriculumresourcepacket.weebly.com/instructional-resources.html (An informal website I created organizing resources by subject)
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