Step 1: Choose your Style

There are seven common methods of homeschooling, and you can mix, match, and adjust them to help you chart your family’s own course and embark on a beautiful learning adventure together! Once you’ve made your selection below, members will be taken to Step 2 to a collection of curated links specific to your path!

Secular: Curriculum choices free from religious content. Many resources give the parent the freedom to lead religious discussions in their own way focusing solely on academic subjects with neutral perspectives.

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Online: This style of learning is based on the use of technology through various websites, apps, and virtual meetings. Many curricula are more structured with the use of schedules, due dates for assignments, and will have meeting times with a teacher for instruction.

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Traditional: This style is a more typical classroom setup which follows twelve grade levels and schedules most similar to schools. Textbooks, tests, and defined subjects are used to teach.

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Charlotte-Mason: This style encourages an atmosphere of learning through real life with a special focus on nature, art, and music with short lessons. It typically includes a lot of individual reading and read-alouds of “living books” which explore a topic through storytelling.

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Unit Studies: This style integrates the learning of several subjects all based around one central theme and can be explored using cooking, worksheets, costumes, and science. Math, models, history, literature, and field trips can also be used.

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Unschooling: This style of learning is typically interest or curiosity led without a need for worksheets or tests. It motivates the child to learn through all interactions in daily life with access to learning opportunities, such as books, field trips, manipulatives, and hands-on activities.

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Classical: This style is based on a three-part process called “The Trivium” which focuses on grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric with Socratic discussion. It aims to teach how to think rather than what to think. It tends to be more structured and leans heavily on memorization, classical literature, and debate.

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