Submitted by dina (not verified) on April 28, 2008 - 12:12.
I am a speech-language pathologist with over 25 years experience, have taught many to read using techniques far more effective and unknown to the average grade school teacher, and yet, the fact that I do not have a teacher's certificate makes me "unqualified", as deemed by the education gestapo, to teach reading. I have homeschooled my three children from birth. My children are all different and learn in different ways. This "kinesthetic" modality you speak of is nothing new. It is simply using motoric involvement, but really, when it comes to reading, most teachers haven't been trained to understand that reading is not about using pudding to write letters in to form words, it's about using the sound patterns formed by one's mouth to understand what the letters (visual modality) mean. And, reading continues to be a skill which is not being taught well for many in the schools. Homeschooling has more than proven itself to be a viable and efficient education alternative. Frankly, if higher learning establishments, such as Harvard, Yale, Standford, MIT, etc. make concerted efforts to recruit homeschoolers; if the man who established the mapping of the human genome was homeschooled; or, the everyday scientists, lawyers, even teachers who've been homeschooled, managed to do so, without the direct instruction of certified teachers, then why should you or the courts challenge it?
I am a speech-language
Submitted by dina (not verified) on April 28, 2008 - 12:12.
I am a speech-language pathologist with over 25 years experience, have taught many to read using techniques far more effective and unknown to the average grade school teacher, and yet, the fact that I do not have a teacher's certificate makes me "unqualified", as deemed by the education gestapo, to teach reading. I have homeschooled my three children from birth. My children are all different and learn in different ways. This "kinesthetic" modality you speak of is nothing new. It is simply using motoric involvement, but really, when it comes to reading, most teachers haven't been trained to understand that reading is not about using pudding to write letters in to form words, it's about using the sound patterns formed by one's mouth to understand what the letters (visual modality) mean. And, reading continues to be a skill which is not being taught well for many in the schools. Homeschooling has more than proven itself to be a viable and efficient education alternative. Frankly, if higher learning establishments, such as Harvard, Yale, Standford, MIT, etc. make concerted efforts to recruit homeschoolers; if the man who established the mapping of the human genome was homeschooled; or, the everyday scientists, lawyers, even teachers who've been homeschooled, managed to do so, without the direct instruction of certified teachers, then why should you or the courts challenge it?