The Curriculum Comfort Zone
"I'm most comfortable when I'm following the curriculum," says one mom I recently worked with.
Not an uncommon feeling with many homeschool parent-teachers. We trust the curriculum developers to have spent the time and money necessary to design a sequence of learning experiences that will lead children from A to Z in a specific subject area.
And most are designed this way. BUT they are also designed for the MASSES and based on AVERAGES.
When you are teaching a large group this is the best option a teacher has to help as many children as possible move from A to Z in understanding.
But you are teaching 1. OK maybe more than one, but typically only one per grade level. And this 1 is NOT AVERAGE. Therefore the best option to lead this child from A to Z understanding is to PERSONALIZE the learning experience.
You don't have to throw out the curriculum, but you do need to consider if it's reaching your...