Homeschooling High School: Finding the Best Curriculum

Image by familymwr via FlickrBy Lee Binz

One very common question among homeschoolers is "where do I find the best curriculum?"

There is not one curriculum that's the best. There is only the curriculum that's the best fit for your child. This is why I don't think anybody can tell you what the best curriculum is, because it may not fit your child at all.

So, one of the things you want to be thinking about is what has worked for your in the past because that's the kind of thing that's likely to be a successful curriculum in the future.

The other thing you want to be thinking about, especially during the high school years, is whether the curriculum was made for homeschoolers. The reason this is important is because there's a lot of curriculum out there, even sold at homeschool conventions, that was originally developed for public and private high school teachers.

These books assume that you are in a classroom setting and includes lots of repetition. It also assumes that the teacher knows the subject. This means if you were to buy a French book that was intended for a public school French teacher, it would assume you know French.

In contrast, if you buy curriculum that is intended and written for homeschoolers, it's going to assume that you know nothing. It will assume that you don't know the subject and that your child doesn't know the subject. This is how you get through, especially those difficult subjects like chemistry, physics or algebra. You will want to choose a curriculum that is made for homeschoolers and this will help you be much more successful.

I have a suggestion for you if are looking for curriculum for the very first time and you have no idea where you are going to start or what you are going to do. Usually, I point people to Sonlight curriculum because I find that it has the best hand-holding and can help you kind of ease in to a homeschool curriculum a little bit.

So, if you are completely flummoxed and you don't have a clue where to start, look at Sonlight curriculum. Other than that just make sure that your curriculum choices are made for homeschoolers.

Are you looking for help homeschooling high school? Lee Binz, The HomeScholar is an expert in helping high school homeschoolers and maintains a website that discusses homeschool curriculum where you can get answers to all your questions.

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