No matter how difficult the last year and a half of at-home learning was, I am very clear on one thing: I was not homeschooling my children.
at varying rates; teachers took varying approaches to Zoom lessons with a wide range of success.
My daughter, who is a perfectionist, was blessed to have a teacher who was proficient in technology and seamlessly wove it into her lessons in three Zoom sessions a day. She also assigned about an hour of satellite work a day. Still, my daughter needed a lot of help. So, even if my daughter was engaged and actively taught for the mandatory three hours a day, she still needed my help to catch up about every 15 to 20 minutes.
I should know: I was a homeschool teacher for five years to two brothers, one in sixth grade and one in third grade when I started. Together, we made our way through the curriculum of seven different grades, and when the eldest entered high school, six different subjects each year.
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