Homeschooler or Teacher?

Question

My best friend and I are both having the same problem. We will both be taking carreer education next semester in Highschool and we are very stuck.

I have been homeschooled on and off throughout my life for several different reasons and my friend has been homeschooled all her life.

We both love teaching. She wants to be a elementary school teacher and I want to be a highschool teacher. But, we also want to be stay at home moms with our children (when they come) and homeschool them.. Does anyone have any ideas.? We are very stuck.

Thanks So Much

Answer 1

That's not a problem, you can finish your desired degree and be a teacher and stay at home and be a teacher to your children. If you have the passion, why don't you organize a support group to the parents who wants to Home school their children but providentially hindered to supervise them.

Answer 2

I'm not sure I understand the question or problem. I became a teacher, taught for a little bit, then tutored, then stayed home with my kids and homeschooled. There's no problem becoming a teacher and homeschooling. You don't know when you'll have children, you don't know how long you'll be at home, the teacher training could come in handy in setting up co-ops or other activities...

Answer 3

I am a teacher but I am all for homeschooling if the parent is really doing it- following a schedule, teaching to mastery, field trips the whole nine yards, my sisterinlaw did it for my nephews and it helped them so much, my nephew were actually behind and she got them caught and now their back in the traditional school setting due to finacial demands at home, but homeschooling can be great for the children if certain guiedlines are followed.

Answer 4

I have a friend who is a teacher and she homeschools her kids.  :)

She taught until her kids were born and now she subs a couple times a month to help with the bills and to keep her foot in the door.  When her kids are out of school she's thinking she'll probably go back to teaching full time or subbing on a more regular basis.  

So, you can technically do both!   Good luck.

Answer 5

Why not go ahead and get your teaching degree (it can't hurt) and maybe just teach part time, or as a substitute or teacher's aide.  That way it will be easier to leave when you have your own kids to homeschool, and you will have gained some valuable experience.  Another option would be to tutor kids who are having problems with their grades.  My husband teaches high school algebra and tutors on Saturday mornings.  Just this little bit of attention and one on one help has made a tremendous difference in some of these kids; many have gone from D's and F's to A's and B's.

Answer 6

you would need to go with an online charter school that has teachers that help the students with emails and by phone

http://www.homeschoolinganswers.info

Answer 7

Your dilema is not so different than every woman who wants to be home with her kids faces.  Whether you decide to be a teacher, doctor, or even waitress, at some point you have to decide whether you will walk away from the job to raise your kids full time.

Become a teacher, teach at a school until you have kids, and then you can homeschool them.  Being a certified teacher would probably enable you to make part-time income tutoring once you start homeschooling your own kids, and maybe you could substitute sometimes too.

Answer 8

You will be raising your own children in an era where the internet will be a new avenue for teaching and learning. Even now, there are teachers teaching from home and students taking classes from home through the internet.

I don't charge anything for the classes I teach online in our online homeschool course co-op, but you could do it as a career just as easily. I chose classes to teach that my own kids need. So I am teaching homeschoolers and my own children at the same time. The kids like it because they have homeschool kids as classmates. The online classroom is awesome. It has full duplex audio, a really fantastic whiteboard system, text chat, webcam, application sharing, file sharing, and more. We enjoy getting to meet together each day for lessons. As a future homeschool mom, you could do this too and earn income from what you would already be teaching to your won children anyway. :)

Answer 9

Go and become the best teachers you can be. Work until you have children, stay current on your certification until you can actively home school your own children.

For the time that they are still infants, and toddlers you (both) can become active in the home school community by either tutoring, or serving as a coop teacher for home school students.

Good luck.

Answer 10

What about this you teach until baby's are born the you become a stay at home mom. When the kids are old enough you can take on a part time gig tutoring

erring kids that need help. That way you can earn a little extra. What I do is leave the kids with Grandma 1 day a week go out to do my inspections (I'm an insurance inspector) pick up the kids go home and put in my reports on-line. I never have to go to the office and I only work about 15-20 hours a week. The day they are with Grandma she teaches them and then I do the teaching on the other 4 days. This works for us and might for you the difference being that instead of inspections you could be subbing or tutoring. Good Luck with you plans!

Answer 11

Become a teacher. Do what you want until you have children. And when your kids are old enough you can go back and teach at a school.

Answer 12

start a small private school out of your home.

Answer 13

You can have a career with a degree (any degree) until you have kids, then stay-at-home to raise your kids (HS'ing or not), and then when they leave the nest, you go back to work.

I worked for 8 years after college, then had a baby and became a SAHM.  My DH and I never lived off of my income - it was "extra" - because we knew I'd stay at home when we had kids.  Then when my child was five, I started HS'ing him.  Since I'd been home w/o pay for five years, it was not hard to then move into the HS'ing world.

When he and his sister leave home as adults, I'll go back to the working (for pay) world.  I hope to have a master's degree by then.

I stay busy at home not only HS'ing, but doing a lot of volunteer work.  My son gets to help me, too, which is one of the benefits of HS'ing.