Whether you’re an experienced homeschooling parent or considering homeschooling for the first time, choosing homeschool curriculum for your children can be both challenging and rewarding.
As a parent, you know your child’s unique learning styles, strengths, challenges, and interests best. This insight makes you exceptionally qualified to select a curriculum that fits your family’s needs.
Unlike traditional schools, where one curriculum must fit all, homeschooling offers a world of tailored learning possibilities.
You have the freedom to curate and customize your child’s learning path based on their unique interests and learning styles.
There are four predominant learning styles: Independent, Auditory, Visual, and Social.
As the parent and teacher, it is important to recognize the learning style that best suits each of your students. For example, a student might be an auditory learner in literature class and a visual learner in science. We all bounce around in our styles, but typically we have a preference for how we take in information, process it, and, most importantly, how we remember what we’ve learned.
With the significant increase in companies offering homeschool curriculum, it can be challenging to identify providers that are reputable, offer excellent customer service, and deliver high-quality products.
Apologia is a trusted name in the global homeschooling community. Apologia has consistently been recognized for excellence, receiving hundreds of awards.
Additionally, Apologia boasts a dedicated customer service team that supports families throughout their homeschooling journey. By providing essential tools and resources, we help parents and students achieve their academic goals and foster a deep understanding and love for God, guiding them in navigating the world throughout their lives.
“The design, pictures, pages, and layouts of Apologia’s curriculum are some of the most eye-pleasing photos and the best quality we have received during our homeschool years. I also want to add the fast shipping and the amount of information in the books to help the teacher is wonderful!”
– Homeschool Parent
Organize your ideas and thoughts for choosing a homeschool curriculum using a planner, spreadsheet, notebook, or whatever works best for you. Visualizing curriculum options through a written plan can help you make decisions.
Before buying, view book samples online or visit a homeschool conference or curriculum fair to see the options in person.
To get a jump start, download Apologia’s Curriculum Planning Guide and utilize the handy curriculum planning pages as a starting point.
When considering a homeschool curriculum, it is important to ask the question, “Does the worldview of this curriculum align with that of our family?”
Apologia’s curriculum is written with a Biblical worldview designed to help students learn, live, and defend the Christian faith. Shaping the lens through which children view the world with a God-honoring education will allow them to grow academically and flourish in their faith.
As you set out to determine the right homeschool curriculum, you need to know your objectives. Perhaps your objective is that your children know God and serve Him every day of their lives, that they are articulate and well-read, and that they can write and do fundamental things.
Different curricula are going to meet different objectives. The combination of knowing God, yourself, your children, and your objectives will give you the confidence to make important decisions regarding curriculum choice.
God is so faithful; He has your back, and He has a plan. Knowing God and seeking His wisdom through prayer will give you the peace, assurance, confidence, and grace needed to homeschool and make the many decisions you will need to make along the journey. Although you may feel very alone on some days, you are not. The God of the universe is right there with you. In every frustrating or glorious moment, He is there with you.
Homeschooling is a lot less about what you are capable of and completely about what He can do through you when you submit to Him. If you are joining the ranks of homeschooling parents, welcome! You can do this! Pray and seek God, submit to His will, and trust in His plan for you.
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