According to Seto Mulyadi, Chairman National Commission on Children, the emergence of homeschooling as an alternative was needed to prove his success as a competition to draw the process through non-formal systems.
Etymologically, home schooling (HS) is a school which was held at the house. Although called home schoooling, does not mean that children are continuously learning at home, but children can learn anywhere and anytime from the situation and condition really comfortable and fun just like being at home. Individual excellence is what gives meaning to the integration of subjects to students.
Seto said, need the full support of parents to learn, to create a creative learning and fun, and maintain interest and enthusiasm to learn children. Because behind the convenience, home school parents also need patience, cooperation among members family, and consistent in the habit of planting.
Seto dismiss a number of myths about homeschooling dinilainya wrong all these years. For example, less socializing children, parents can be teachers, parents need to know everything, parents should spend 8 hours a day, not as much time learning to formal school learning time, children are not accustomed to discipline and casually own, can not get the diploma and moved path to formal schools, are not able to compete, and homeschool expensive. “That’s wrong,” he said.
There are several classifications homeschool formats, namely:
Single Homeschooling
Implemented by parents in a family without joining others for a particular case or because the remote location.
Homeschooling compound
Performed by two or more families for certain activities while the main activities carried out by the parents remained each. The reason: there are needs that can be compromised by some families to do activities together. Curriculum of the Consortium for example, sporting activities (eg tennis athlete’s family), expertise music / arts, social activities and religious activities
Homeschool Community
Combined several homeschool compound and determining the set syllabus, teaching materials, basic activities (sports, music / art and language), facilities / infrastructure and learning schedules. Learning organization commitment between parents and the community about 50:50.
Reasons for choosing homeschooling community include:
- Structured and more complete for academic education, the development of noble character and learning achievement
- Available facilities better learning such as: workshops, nature lab, library, science laboratory / Language, auditoriums, sports facilities and art
- Latitude in the socialization of learners broader but can be controlled
- Greater support for each responsible for teaching each other according to their expertise
- Suitable for children aged above 10 years
- Combining families live far away via the Internet and other information tools to reject an appeal (benchmarking), including for the standardization
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