Traditional Homeschool Method
This approach mimics what happens in the public school classroom. It compartmentalizes subject areas, uses textbooks, and relies on teacher-driven content.
- Focus is on the national (or private institution’s) standards
- Involves lectures, grade-level textbooks, workbooks, drill and memorization, practice problems and review, testing, and grades
- Lots of reading and writing
- Full school day
- Goal is to learn what is required for graduation and to produce good citizens
This teaching method might work well for you/your student if you:
- want your child to be studying material in a similar scope and sequence as other public or private schools,
- value the style of a classroom school and want your child to experience that at home,
- want your child to be able to do well and learn through fill-in-the-blanks and quizzes,
- have definite ideas about what content you want your child to learn, and it matches well with the textbook you have chosen.
Traditional Resources
- A Beka (Christian)
- Bob Jones University Press (Christian)
- Seton Home Study School (Catholic)
- Calvert (secular)
- Ablaze (secular)
- Laurel Springs (secular)
- Rod and Staff (Christian)
- Christian Light Education (Christian)
- School of Tomorrow (Christian)
- Alpha Omega (Christian)
- The Checklist
