Sample Presentation Home schooling versus Public Schooling

Sample Presentation Home schooling versus Public Schooling

Homeschooling versus Public Schooling

Student

English Comp 100

Kevin Knowles

Thesis

Although young people can benefit from home instruction, public schooling is more structured, more embracive, and creates a well-rounded student and young person by trained/experienced professionals.

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Breadth of experience and exposure to different learning, pacing, *pedagogy, and diverse peoples.

Learning to function within the variety of teachers, approaches. Learn to adapt to structures, expectations, pacing.

In the real world you have to learn to adjust to different situations within the workforce, social situations, and political situations

Conflict resolution

*Pedagogy: the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.

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Public Schooling provides students with opportunities that cannot be provided in a homeschool setting

Wide range of high school sports, clubs, arts, homecoming, winter formal, prom, etc

Opportunities to meet wide range of friends

Funding and amount of students attending allows for labs, and certain supplies that would be hard to provide/acquire at home

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Not every parent is a good teacher, in public schooling students get people who are experts in their field who are state certified.

State certified (credential)

Degree in education or specific subject they teach

Experience (student teaching)

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1st Counter Argument

Parents have the ability to teach their children at their desired pace

Teach them, for example, to read or multiplication at the age they seem ready

Freedom to choose their methodology

Response: The issue is that many parents do not rely on and utilize articulated/ structured lesson plans, preferring to instead to teach through life experience situations

Not all kids do better in homeschooling, only the ones who have been given structured lessons, like what is given in public schooling

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2nd Counter Argument

It is said that kids who are homeschooled meet or even surpass the achievement of public school students

Response: It is a biased study based on who conducted this study and participated in it. Also the way the ones who participated in it were selected.

Conclusion

While alternative programs work for some, clearly public schools provides the most comprehensive educational and social experience for America’s youth.

Works Cited

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 23 Apr. 2008.

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003, www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/. Accessed 10 May 2006.