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Q: Will a home school teacher be willing to let me interview them please?
I have a class assignment due the 18th of September where I must interview a home school teacher. I have about ten questions to ask. If anyone is interested please let me know. I can send the questions via email if it is easier for you. Thank You

A: I am a veteran home school mom of 16 years and would be willing to interview with you. I have home schooled 4 kids, 3 of them all the way through school. I noticed that there are others interested, too, so you might want to contact all of us and see what answers you get! Could be quite interesting as you will find we come in all "flavors", meaning there is no hard and set way that all families home school. The freedom to home school allows for true diversity. If interested, contact me at: homeschoolmom42@yahoo.com Lori

Q: How do I find a home school teacher?
i need to find a home school teacher that teachers 9th graders-12th graders. p.s. my mom cant teach me because she doesnt know what to do, because i never been home schooled. so yeah. i need to find like a professional teacher.

A: Home school teachers are generally the parents or someone that the parent trusts and hires for a subject they struggle in. Otherwise, there are "virtual schools" that you can sign up with. Maybe look into a co op in the area of other home schoolers? Good luck

Q: how much does a secondary home school teacher usually cost?
how much would a home school teacher who teaches secondary school cost? oh i didint know that parents can be the teacher lol...thanks for the help everyone

A: Generally speaking, you can expect to pay anywhere from $20 to $75 an hour, depending on the part of the country and the subject area being taught. [Edited to Add] My apologies. I incorrectly assumed you were inquiring about the fees of a secondary level home *tutor.*

Q: How to find a home school teacher?
So, I want to be home schooled, but there's only one problem: i have to idea where to find one. My parents can't teach me because they both work full-time. Is there any website that can show you the available teachers in your area to teach you at home, and if so, what is that website? If you want to be more specific, I live in boston, if that helps. Thanks.

A: You don't say how old you are, but if you're in your teens you have found your 'teacher'. By the time my kids were in 7th grade they did a lot of the learning on their own. I helped them go over things and grade their work. By 11th grade they did almost everything by themselves including scheduling their work. You just need your parents to be 'supervisors'. That's for my state. Check out www.hslda.org for more info on your state's homeschool law.

Q: Are you a Home School teacher? If so Have you and your kids attended a Home School Conference?
If so How did you like the Home School Conference? Tell me your experience about the conference? If so Do you have a link of the conference that you attended? I'm interested in starting one for the group in my area of home schooler's.

A: I've never been to a homeschool conference, but maybe this will help you: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8259/hmscconf.html Our main conference where I live is in another city and I prefer not to have to travel, pay for a motel, pay for the conference, etc. But I know many people who go and they love it.

Q: How do I go about finding a registered elementary school teacher to work part time and home school my kids?
I want to home school my two daughters who are going into 2nd and 4th grades and want to hire an elementary school teacher part time to do this. How do I go about finding someone? I have absolutely no idea how to find someone who can come to our home and teach the girls under the California curriculum and who has all their own teaching materials etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

A: Do you work full time? If you want your girls to be home schooled so that they can learn more than what they're taught at school, then I suggest you teach them yourself. Otherwise, try posting an ad on Craigslist.

Q: I need to interview a home school teacher for a college assignment. Can a home school teacher contact me?
If you are interested please let me know. I have only ten questions to ask. Thanks Please include your email address so I can email you the questions.

A: yes you can contact me, I've been teaching my 10 yr dd for 3 yrs now. sisymay@yahoo.com

Q: How much does it cost to have a home school teacher (in miami)?
Where would I have to go to contact one of these teachers?

A: It depend of the teacher ranging from 5 cents to $100 a day

Q: Why do those against home school question teacher qualifications?
Are public school teachers better qualified to teach than parents? Does being trained in particular curriculum produce better results than parent who teaches to child's specific learning style, interests, and needs?

A: Some might actually be concerned about the quality of education but most have an agenda. Many criticize homeschooling based on ignorance. People think they know what homeschooling is based on what they have been told, what they have read in the newspaper or what they have seen on tv. They typically hear or read negative things and form negative opinions on homeschooling. Of course, good news doesn't sell newspapers or drive tv ratings so we typically see the few abuses of homeschooling coming from these outlets. Also, people are naturally conformists and are threatened by things that are different and people who are willing to blaze a new path. Even though homeschooling is not new and was actually the primary way to educate kids in the early years of our country, it is now seen as new and very different from the norm. People are not comfortable with this. It is foreign to them. They feel threatened by it and as a result feel the need to criticize it. Lastly, people like the teacher who opposes homeschooling do so because it threatens the power base of the educational establishment. The NEA has issued policy statements against homeschooling. They feel threatened by a bunch of "untrained non-professional teachers" who do a better job than public school teachers who are the supposed trained professionals. The vast majority of teachers are critical of homeschoolers based on this bias and/or their "vast" experience with a couple of homeschoolers who didn't measure up in their eyes. Odds are you are related to, are friends with or live near a teacher, administrator or someone else in the educational field. It is a massive field which is expanding at an exponential rate, mainly in the rank of overpaid administrators. Few of them have a kind word to say about homeschooling, which they see as the competition. It must be humiliating to be a "trained professional" and be outdone by the untrained parents. Homeschoolers outperform both public and private schooled kids on standardized tests. This is despite the fact that many public school classes have become glorified test prep courses. Very sad.

Q: What kind of degree do you need to be a home school teacher in North Carolina?


A: If you are teaching someone elses kids you need a teaching certificate from the state - if teaching your own kids you need no teaching degree at all.

Q: Finding a home school teacher?
How do you go about finding a teacher to home school your children? Are there special home school teacher sites? Do you put out an ad somewhere? Any helpful information you can provide would be super! Thanks PS - we live in NH

A: In most (not all) homeschooling scenarios, the parent is the teacher. If you are looking for a tutor, you might want to advertise. If you are looking for a homeschooling mother to assist you with homeschooling your children, you might want to attend a homeschool support group meeting in your area. You can also start with learning the homeschooling laws in your state and how to legally homeschool. The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has information on this along with other information on how to get started in homeschooling. The links are below: http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=NH http://www.youcanhomeschool.org/starthere/default.asp?bhcp=1 I hope this is helpful.

Q: How can i hire a private special ed teacher or aba specialist to home school my p.d.d. 7 year old son in NYC?
I am looking for a licensed special ed teacher to home school my 7 year old. I live in Staten island. How do I find a teacher? What would I pay a year for a licensed teacher?

A: Contact your school district. They might be able to help recommend someone if she is not doing well in a classroom setting. They might even pay for it if she has an IEP in place.

Q: im looking for a home school teacher?
im looking for a home school teacher in or near barberton/ doylestown for a 15 year old boy. any help? sujjestions? he is in from florida and will be staying in ohio with his dad and i. please help!

A: Have the father check around or you. There are a lot of parents who home school and might be willing to take the 15 year old on. It just depends. Yes parents are normally the teachers but sometimes kids go to others homes to learn different studies. Homeschooling by state this site might help you out. Or get you in contact with someone. http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/supportgroups/a/hsingusa.htm

Q: As a home school teacher, how do you "Grade"?
I need specifics or examples on how to acurately grade for record keeping.

A: The easy way is to come up with a scoring standard (for example, 90-100 = A, 80-89 =B, etc) and then divide the number of questions your child got correct by the total number of questions in the assignment. Example: If there are 36 questions and they got 28 right, that would be a 78 percent (28/36 = 78), or a C.

Q: i am looking to find a home school teacher,other than my parents?
im going to be a sophmore in high school, and i feel that public schooling is not the option. i havent expressed this to my parent yet, i want them to think i am serious about this option and waiting for the right time. but my main concern is not finding someone other than my parents to teach me.please help.

A: What about this said anything about worries about socializing with others? Methinks the poster doth protest too much. If you're serious, you're on the right path...keep doing research! If you really want to impress them, figure out how to cite sources and do a nice write-up and presentation, footnotes included. It not only argues your case, but also shows that you're capable of self-motivation and independent thought, research and learning...all of which are necessary for anyone willing to take on their own education. Try reading "The Teenage Liberation Handbook," it ought to be at your library. There's lots of good information in there. Finding a teacher depends on what you want to learn. I've got little kids that I'm homeschooling, so I make those decisions for them--you'll be able to make those decisions for yourself, since you're obviously old enough to handle it. (My kids are 5 and 7.) But we had a science unit on "The Human Body." We outlined the kids' bodies on paper and glued on different "organs," we built "joints and muscles" by attaching rubber strips to a bent cardboard tube, we took a trip to the Science Museum where they had a huge exhibit on the subject; we tested our heart rate, the speed of a baseball pitch, our balance, our running speed, we looked at nutrition and food, we ran an obstacle course and tried their rock-climbing wall. We printed out paper skeleton pieces and put it together, we went through the anatomy units on Brainpopjr.com. You could probably do much the same kind of thing, but more for your age. So I did a web search on "high school scope and sequence" to find an anatomy/human body sort of curriculum. (A "scope and sequence" is eduspeak for "How much of a subject you're going to teach, and in what order." Finding them can be like little gold mines, depending on where they come from.) So this one kinda wants you to know about extremely basic biochemistry first, and some stuff about cell structure and function before moving to whole systems. You may think that's a great idea, you may not. Eventually you get to "Explain the purpose and function of the following human systems: Digestive, Respiratory, Circulatory," etc. If I want to start in on the digestive system, I'll probably run a web search on "digestive system" and "NOVA" or "PBS," since I know they run excellent documentaries and might have something worth watching. I see they have "The Universe Within." I wonder if I can get that at my library? I see it for sure on sale at Amazon, and Blockbuster Online seems to be offering it as well. If I honestly know nothing about the topic in question, I'll even look for a Bill Nye video on the topic just to get an introduction to it. (I LOVE Bill Nye!!!) I'll hit YouTube to look for "digestive system," but I expect to get a large amount of stuff made by college guys with too much beer in their system and a spare video camera on hand. The first one looks pretty good; it's an upper-level lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nFwO-9iU5Y HowStuffWorks.com is pretty good for overviews, too. http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/6151-food-into-fuel-digestion-video.htm And I've watched several things on BrainPop.com that I didn't know before (like exactly how laser printers work). I run another search, this time "digestive system educational video," and I get something from the Mayo Clinic. Turns out it's on the wrong topic, but I can find a slideshow on digestion. All of these things are ways to learn without your parents officially "teaching" you. If you find you really like and enjoy some of this stuff, you can try to get volunteer positions at veterinary clinics or someplace similar, to be around it and see if that's a direction you want to take as far as a career. Maybe biology isn't so much reading a textbook and listening to your mom lecture. Maybe it's reading as much as you can get your hands, watching several hours of informational programming and teaming up with the Department of Conservation to restore a wetlands, or volunteering at the local college to turn over the turtle eggs in the incubator every few hours, or working for a grad student gathering field data for research. Maybe it's attending related lectures and book signings, and talking to the authors, asking questions. In real life, everyone can be your teacher. Your dad might be your carpentry or plumbing teacher, your neighbor might be your design teacher, the guy at the sports shop is your kayak instructor (PE, anyone?), and the little old lady down the street became your horticulture teacher when you found out that she knew how to grow the best peaches / tomatoes / roses / venus flytraps you'd ever seen, and asked her how she did it.