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Archive for December, 2009

Question: Can you tell me a little more about American School of Correspondence?

I have been very interested in their college prep. high school diploma, but their website isn't very informative unfortunately.
These are the question's I had:
how much would the college prep curriculum cost? Is it religion affiliated? Are the courses for the college prep curriculum challenging?(I am in a couple honors classes right now in 10th grade and i feel more comfortable in them that the others)?

if you are Homeschooling right now, are you given at least 4 courses to do at a time, like math and science and english and social studies in the same day?

Thank you if you can answer at least one of these questions.

Answer: I think its 1k< tuition per year, but I don't know exactly. It's not affiliated with a religion.

It is very rigid in terms of it's curriculum, not sure how challenging it is. You just can't choose electives, or pick from a bunch of classes.

As I understand it, you can do the classes when you choose, but you have a limited time to finish. So, you could do 4 each day, or 1 per day so long as you complete the assignments within the time frame. Could even do one at a time, spending intense weeks one subject at a time.

It is a correspondence school, so you are actually enrolled... they send you the material, you send it back, they grade it etc.

I have a friend who graduated from the American School of Correspondence and he is now in a 4 year college. No admissions difficulties.

Good luck

The Worst Home Schooling Ever

There are different types of learning styles. When Homeschooling, it is important to design your lessons to suit the particular learning style of the homeschooler. There are three basic different types of learning styles. If you don't know the learning style of the homeschooler, you can give him or her a learning styles test. There are also different learning styles games to benefit children with different styles of learning. Teaching different learning styles can also be challenging.

What are the three different types of learning styles?

People have different types of learning styles because each person's brain prefers different way of collection and absorbing information. Most people have one dominant learning style but can learn by methods preferred by other learning styles as well.

Visual learning styles

People with Visual Learning Style must see things and watch them demonstrated to learn them. Most people with visual learning styles will write things down to remember them. Remembering faces is easy with people with Visual Learning Style but remembering names can be difficult.

Auditory learning styles or verbal learning styles

People with Auditory Learning Style or verbal learning style learn by listening. These people tend to be good at music and prefer to go to a lecture than reading books.

• Visual vs Auditory Learning

Kinesthetic learning styles

People with Kinesthetic Learning Style learn by doing things themselves. Watching something being demonstrated or listening to something will not be enough for children with kinesthetic learning styles to learn.