Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Daily Worksheet - Too Little to Do?

The more courses you assign to a student in different subjects, the more daily worksheets the student will have in HomeSchool Advantage. Initially, we recommend that you assign courses in only two different subjects, such as Geography and History. We want you and your students to get a good feel for the system and how it works before adding additional subjects.

Each subject will introduce your students to just a few new facts each day, sometime only two or three. At first, only two or three new facts a day may seem too easy. Although it is possible to request additional facts, we encourage your students not to cram. Three new facts a day means the student will learn over 1000 new facts a year. If they are studying five subjects, then they will learn as many as 5,000 new facts a year.

HomeSchool Advantage is a revolutionary new way to approach knowledge. We treat knowledge acquisition as a marathon, not a sprint. We are delighted if your students only learn three new history facts a day, because we know that if they can actually remember these facts, your students will become brilliant history students. Is is not what you learn that makes you brilliant, it is what you remember.

If your students study several subjects a day, learning just two or three new facts, in a few years they will master tens of thousands of facts, making them, in any objective measure, brilliant students.

This is our goal for your students: for them to learn, retain, and recall tens of thousands of facts by the time they leave your homeschool. However, this goal will not be reached if the students get overwhelmed and give up.

Start slowly with just two courses. Don't add extra facts too quickly. But do have your students return almost every day, which is easy for them to do at home. This is the beauty of home schooling, and this is the beauty of HomeSchool Advantage.

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