I have advanced college degrees in science/engineering, I watch electronics and chemistry videos for fun, and I wouldn’t feel qualified teaching most subjects past 6-7 grade. How some of these parents with just high school diplomas do it is beyond me.
I feel the most empathy toward the students who are taught these very myopic curriculums that are very weak in science and math (I’m looking at you young earth/creationists types) and who knows what about history (slavery gave African-Americans jobs skills?) that try to get into college. Most profs will not suffer fools like this even if by some miracle they get accepted in the first place.
How some of these parents with just high school diplomas do it is beyond me.
They don't. I'm in the same boat. Technical Bachelors, MBA. We home schooled my son with a learning disorder for a year, primarily as a response to the school districts failure to do their job. It was not a success. While I still think it was the right decision, it was incredibly hard. Which is why it only lasted one year.
In my case I found an online school where my kid can attend class live or watch recorded sessions, reach out to the teachers in those sessions for help, attend virtual study groups, etc… It really helped compared to trying to do it all myself.
I work in Distance Education at a major university (well I guess it’s called Digital Education now since even the in-person courses use it too) so you have no idea how happy it makes me to read this 😀
I do find it ironic that this never even occurred to me with respect to home schooling … duh!! I’m in IT so this pedagogy thing is for those other people right? 🤣
I think it really depends on the situation. If you're tech savvy enough and have good enough internet to use Zoom and video playback sites, you might learn well that way. Especially if you can actually get more helpers / educators per student than in person for the live sessions. But most of what I've seen said that during COVID pretty much all pre-college students suffered with online learning. I don't know if it's a learning style thing, or what - but while I feel like I've learned things from like TLC, youtube and other online video education, I never felt I learned as much as when I was actually in a classroom where I could directly interact with the teacher. So I'm a little leery of the "watch recorded classes" idea as being all that useful for many people.
I have advanced college degrees in science/engineering, I watch electronics and chemistry videos for fun, and I wouldn’t feel qualified teaching most subjects past 6-7 grade. How some of these parents with just high school diplomas do it is beyond me.
I feel the most empathy toward the students who are taught these very myopic curriculums that are very weak in science and math (I’m looking at you young earth/creationists types) and who knows what about history (slavery gave African-Americans jobs skills?) that try to get into college. Most profs will not suffer fools like this even if by some miracle they get accepted in the first place.
How some of these parents with just high school diplomas do it is beyond me. They don't. I'm in the same boat. Technical Bachelors, MBA. We home schooled my son with a learning disorder for a year, primarily as a response to the school districts failure to do their job. It was not a success. While I still think it was the right decision, it was incredibly hard. Which is why it only lasted one year.
In my case I found an online school where my kid can attend class live or watch recorded sessions, reach out to the teachers in those sessions for help, attend virtual study groups, etc… It really helped compared to trying to do it all myself.
I work in Distance Education at a major university (well I guess it’s called Digital Education now since even the in-person courses use it too) so you have no idea how happy it makes me to read this 😀
I do find it ironic that this never even occurred to me with respect to home schooling … duh!! I’m in IT so this pedagogy thing is for those other people right? 🤣
I think it really depends on the situation. If you're tech savvy enough and have good enough internet to use Zoom and video playback sites, you might learn well that way. Especially if you can actually get more helpers / educators per student than in person for the live sessions. But most of what I've seen said that during COVID pretty much all pre-college students suffered with online learning. I don't know if it's a learning style thing, or what - but while I feel like I've learned things from like TLC, youtube and other online video education, I never felt I learned as much as when I was actually in a classroom where I could directly interact with the teacher. So I'm a little leery of the "watch recorded classes" idea as being all that useful for many people.