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Home Schooling in Australia Home schooling is a trend that is fast growing favour across the country and around the globe! It is considered a far more effective way of educating your child than the traditional schooling system. There is a movement that is gathering momentum against the institutionalised factory style education of children and young adults. The range of Schools that teach our children, like workplaces, are seen as inefficient in teaching children in 2016. The amount of teaching time or the amount of learning produced per hour is considered low when compared to home schooling. Daughter Being Home Schooled by Her Mother Home schooling is a far more effective way of educating children than institutionalised factory style education. Schools, like workplaces, are incredibly inefficient in the amount of learning produced per hours attended. At work we have the water cooler, or office kitchen, where workers congregate to gossip and share information, the actual productivity achieved at work usually happens quite quickly in small but intense bursts. Schools are similar in that large numbers of children and teachers waste inordinate amounts of time during the structured learning periods. The first secret to achieving successful home schooling is not to model your home education on institutionalised schooling. Don't think that you have to be schooling your kids six hours a day for five days a week, because you will not have that huge amount of ineffective wasted time. Teaching one or two children is totally different to teaching thirty plus kids in a classroom. You will be able to achieve your teaching/learning goals in less than a quarter of the time. The quality of your teacher to student relating will far exceed the traditional paradigm. Secondly, don't be afraid of making things fun. Learning new things does not have to be difficult. Again, the old model of teachers in classrooms yelling at misbehaving students does not apply here. Work with your child to make learning fun, listen to ideas they have and blend these into the way you instruct them. Find the methods that flow and create interaction with your child. This will not only improve their learning but also empower them to think for themselves by the process of this learning. Talk together about ways to improve their experience in learning this way, once they have a keenness to learn there will be no stopping their thirst for it. The experienced ones in this field recommend to ensure you give your child the tools and understanding of how to find information themselves. Education is not about learning endless amounts of facts, equations and rules. Education actually means, finding and absorbing the necessary knowledge on an array of subjects. To achieve greatness at this it involves inspiring your child to find things out for themselves. If you foster this self-sufficiency and self-motivation in your child they will excel in their studies. Foster experiential learning as much as possible. Creative type projects which will engage your child in the world around them will keep them interested and maintain the link between learning and real life. Balance conceptual learning with experimentation is the key to an enquiring mind and achieving greatness. Opponents of the traditional education system say institutions suffer from the divorcing of reality from the concepts of learning. This create a barrier for some children and turns them off from the desire for learning. Sharing your real life concerns with your child. Tell the truth and be real about your experiences, your child will appreciate it and remember this shared insight into your life. It has always been said that honesty in all relationships improves their effectiveness. It strengthens the bonds between two people. If you want your child to grow to be open and honest with you, then you need to do the same with them. If you find yourself running out of fresh ideas for teaching the various projects, bring in fresh energy via visitors knowledgable in the subject when needed. Invite a friend in to present a session or two. Maybe a visit to a museum in Sydney In your circle of friends, many will have different careers and interests that would give your child an opportunity to hear about what it is like to be a builder, pest control contractor, a dentist, shop assistant etc. and be enlightened by learning about each. Home schooling is a wonderful experience to give your child and with perseverance they will excel and thank you deeply later in life for taking the time to give them the opportunity to experience it. The fact that you are reading this shows you care deeply about the responsibility you have taken on and we wish you well in your homeschooling journey. If you found this informative, you may also like to read the Board Of Studies PDF on home schooling and refer to the Dux College website who provide small class HSC Tutoring in Sydney for many students who have been home schooled in the region.