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Preparing the Homeschooler For College – How Distance Learning Private Schools Can Help
As a result of the competitive nature of the college admission process, parents are constantly looking for anything that will give them and their children an edge over other applicants. With many schools cutting back on the number of students they admit, and with the requirements for admission becoming more and more rigorous each year, many parents are looking to do everything they can to help their children get into the college or university of their choice. For homeschooling parents, the competitive edge is often gained through their child’s enrollment in a distance learning private school.
Most parents find that traditional public or private schools cannot effectively prepare their children for the rigors and requirements associated with attending a top college or university. Often, these schools are overcrowded, under funded, and staffed by unqualified teachers, ensuring that only a few of the self-sufficient students who attend them will actually receive the education they deserve or have paid for. For most parents, this is simply not an acceptable situation.
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Special Education & Mainstreaming
In the district I work in, just like others across the United States, special education departments have been dismantled and special education certifications have been debunked.
Because special education certifications no longer carry the same weight as other teaching licenses, said educators no longer have the right to teach their own classes. This has lead to most special education students being taught in regular education classrooms.
This type of inclusion does not always work.
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Quality in College Teaching
Introduction
All of the same principles of brain-friendly teaching apply to teaching college students and other adults as much as they apply to K-12 students. However, for years, the problem of NOT observing the principles had been more pervasive in some colleges than in others. Too frequently, there has been an emphasis on just lecturing and even on use of unqualified teaching assistants in a number of college programs. Fortunately, a growing number of colleges and universities are now beginning to focus very strongly on the quality of teaching. This article is intended to assist in that focusing.
Questions on Quality
Consider the difference between a “yes” answer or a “no” answer to each of the questions for a professor who teaches in a college or university: Read the rest of this entry »
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