Reflecting over your previous year can help you as you’re making plans for this current school year. I encourage you to set aside an hour or two of uninterrupted time to reflect over these questions.
These questions are a great way to evaluate your homeschool, and help you develop a plan for implementing some changes. Don’t just do what you’ve always been doing. Your children are in a constant state of change, so we must adjust our approach to teaching our children as they mature. I’ve often found it so much easier to put my homeschool on autopilot. But in doing so, our school becomes stagnate. Learning loses its excitement, and I stop growing.
I’ve learned my lesson and I’m not doing that anymore.
What worked? Why did it work? (Let’s keep doing this, and perhaps add more.)
What didn’t? Why didn’t it work? (Let’s eliminate this.)
When did you feel like you were in your groove? (do more of this)
When did you feel like quitting? (do less of this)Continue Reading