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My kids take a variety of classes outside the home – currently music and Spanish with a Toastmaster’s speech class coming up soon. To my knowledge, none of their instructors are current homeschooling families and I’m not sure the lady teaching the speech class has ever homeschooled, yet they’re still giving to the homeschool community. I can tell you that I speak for all the families whose kids are in these classes when I say, we appreciate the instructors’ time.
I know the my kids are being taught skills that I couldn’t effectively teach them at home. I remember a little bit of Spanish from high school, but not enough to teach my kids high school level Spanish. I can’t read music (other than what I’ve learned helping my kids with their music homework). And, although I took a speech class in college, my daughter will be learning skills that I’d never think to teach her in a group setting that I’d be unable to replicate from an individual who is skilled in teaching the subject.
What skills do you have that might be marketable in the homeschool community either in a paid or volunteer capacity?
- Sports coach – Have you ever played or coached a sport for which their is an unfulfilled need in your community? We’re extremely grateful for our daughter’s volleyball coach. It’s the only sport in which she ever expressed an interest in playing and she loves it.
- Teacher or tutor – Are you skilled in algebra? Fluent in a foreign language? Have a strong interest in science? Able to help a struggling reader?
- Fine arts – Are you artistic (think: painting, sculpting, photography)? A dancer? Willing to lead a Shakespeare troupe? Teach a music class?
- Technological – Could you teach a computer programming class? What about building a website? Blogging basics?
- Agricultural – Could you manage a community garden for homeschooling families and teach kids how to cultivate it? Lead a 4-H group? Teach animal husbandry?
- Trade – Could you teach a wood shop class? Auto mechanics? Cake decorating? A cooking or home-ec class?
- Apprentice – Would your line of work allow you to take on an apprentice to whom you could teach a skill? Maybe you could teach a high school student basic household repairs that would benefit his or her family in the the future?
- Finance – Could you share your knowledge of money management? Budgeting?
- Club leader – Lego club? Book club? Scouting?
If you have a skill that you could share with homeschooling families, I bet you could find those who would be grateful to have you do so. It doesn’t have to be a 36-week class or a traditional classroom setting. The speech class we’ll be doing soon only lasts eight weeks.
In what areas would your local homeschool community be blessed to have a need fulfilled?
Kris is the sweet-tea-drinking, classically eclectic, slightly Charlotte Mason mom to her three Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers and the woman who refused to be Eclipsed by obesity any longer.
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Thanks for posting this, Kris. It has inspired some thought about what I might be able to contribute.
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