Why use a Home School Scheduler – let me count the ways
Note: My wife will occasionally guest post (hopefully frequently as she has a great perspective on homeschooling.) This is her first post.
Why do we use a schedule? For myself and all three kids the answer is different.
For me, I find that if I don’t write down on paper the things that I want to do, they just spin in my head (I’m sure no other moms have this problem). I don’t want to forget anything, so I keep thinking about it. If I write it down, I don’t have to spend energy thinking about it and I remember what it was that I wanted to do. Sometimes I have a great idea about something that I want to try but the kids, the laundry or dinner interrupt my thoughts. Then later I remember that I forgot to do my "great" idea.
Our oldest son is able to work independently on most of his homeschooling. He loves to read and takes everything in best when left to do it himself. If I give him a schedule, he knows what he needs to do and together we can plan how he spends his time. A schedule also prevents him from "forgetting" and running out of time for the subjects that are not his favorites (but that I think are important!).
Son number two likes to know exactly what is going to happen during the day. Even during summer, he asks what our schedule is. He wants to know what work he has to do and where we are going a week at a time. He desires a sense of "order". He definitely feels a sense of accomplishment when he is able to check things off as done. He is more focused when he has a schedule to guide him.
Our youngest (daughter) likes to know what she is going to do each day, but she gets easily overwhelmed if it looks like too much. She would prefer to know only what is happening today and not what is happening all week. Her personality is much more relaxed and she focuses on what she wants to do. A schedule helps her remember that she has to do math even if she doesn’t really like it.
We use a schedule for each child, but for different reasons. I like to be able to customize our schedule to each child based upon their personality.
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We’ve received positive feedback about our site so far, and we’re hoping for even better feedback about the product once we release it. Last post I talked about how to sign-up for updates on the blog via RSS feeds or email. And I’ve pointed out how to follow homeschoolplan on Twitter.
Today I want to briefly let you know how we hope to provide you feedback and listen to your feedback on our site when the product launches. We will of course be monitoring Twitter. But we want you to have a voice on the site too. So we’ve got a link at the top called ‘Forums‘. It’s empty now, but we’ll add forum topics where we’ll post items such as future releases, bugs we’re fixing (hopefully this will be a low posted forum topic), and how-to’s (another hopefully low posted topic); we’ll also have a HELP area for you to post your questions as well.
We are also trying out uservoice. This tool is a cool voting style application that allows you the user to post ideas for new features and then allows all users to vote for their favorites. Aside from homeschool requests like "come babysit my kids", we plan on using this tool to help drive some of our future feature release decisions.
We look forward to the multiple ways that we’ll be hearing from, and speaking with, you.
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