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More and more people are opting to home school their children. Some use the services of an accredited home school program where they can receive experienced homeschooling support with the use of time-tested resources including the use of online home school services. Home schooling on the internet is gaining popularity due to the many subjects that can be approached and the interaction with other students and faculty from around the world. Some choose to home school through the elementary years but you can earn a high school diploma from home, and many do. Review our links and directories and information that will help you decide on the best way to approach home schooling.
If you have never done anything with "homeschooling," this is an extremely interesting question! Homeschooling can seem very mysterious. How can you learn anything if there is not a professional teacher standing in front of you presenting the material? Most people are so familiar with that scenario in the U.S. that it seems impossible for there to be any other way.
Here's a funny thing about education -- it comes in all shapes and sizes. When you get curious about something and come to a place like How Stuff Works to learn about it, you are participating in a form of homeschooling. This is sometimes called interest-motivated education or self-motivated education. You get interested in something for whatever reason, that interest motivates you to learn about it, and you do learn about it by doing your own research.
Homeschooling is different for every family:
· At one end of the spectrum, there are families who take a child's curiosity and interest in a topic and help the child explore the topic. The idea is that, in any area of interest, there are opportunities to explore math, science, history, geography, etc. Those concepts are woven into the child's natural exploration of a topic. Over time, all of the topics covered in "normal" schooling get covered, but they happen in a much different order and at the child's own pace.
· At the other end of the spectrum, there are families who buy all of the books and follow the state curriculum just like a normal school would. The material is simply taught at home in a smaller setting.
Homeschooling for any individual family can fall anywhere on that spectrum.
Taken from http://people.howstuffworks.com/question382.htm