Bringing Homeschool Strategies to Public School Classrooms to Help Meet the Special Educational Needs of Students
Location
K-12 Schools: Practices and Strategies - Boston 2/3
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
This presentation will present a brief overview of data from a study of homeschooling families. A specific focus of this study was understanding how the change from a public-school classroom to a homeschool learning environment affected children with special educational needs (SEN). The results of the study indicated that 50.8% of participating families had a child who attended public or private school before the family decided to homeschool. For this group of families that had a child who attended public or private school before homeschooling, 60.6% reported having a child with SEN. This was a significant difference compared to the group that had always homeschooled where 43.4% reported having a child with SEN. Parents’ perceptions about how the change in learning environments affected their child will be shared. The researcher and presenter is a professor of educational research and a former homeschool mother whose homeschooled son is now a public-school teacher. Findings from the study will be discussed in relation to classroom observations of this homeschooled public-school teacher’s practice using homeschool strategies.
Keywords
Homeschool, Special Educational Needs, SEN, learning environments
Professional Bio
Dr. Mary Morse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Research, and School Improvement at the University of West Georgia. Dr. Morse teaches graduate-level courses focused on research methodology and school and classroom assessment. She also directs doctoral dissertations and serves on dissertation committees. Her primary research focuses include motivation in learning, building community with online learning, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Morse, Mary L., "Bringing Homeschool Strategies to Public School Classrooms to Help Meet the Special Educational Needs of Students" (2019). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 50.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2019/2019/50
Bringing Homeschool Strategies to Public School Classrooms to Help Meet the Special Educational Needs of Students
K-12 Schools: Practices and Strategies - Boston 2/3
This presentation will present a brief overview of data from a study of homeschooling families. A specific focus of this study was understanding how the change from a public-school classroom to a homeschool learning environment affected children with special educational needs (SEN). The results of the study indicated that 50.8% of participating families had a child who attended public or private school before the family decided to homeschool. For this group of families that had a child who attended public or private school before homeschooling, 60.6% reported having a child with SEN. This was a significant difference compared to the group that had always homeschooled where 43.4% reported having a child with SEN. Parents’ perceptions about how the change in learning environments affected their child will be shared. The researcher and presenter is a professor of educational research and a former homeschool mother whose homeschooled son is now a public-school teacher. Findings from the study will be discussed in relation to classroom observations of this homeschooled public-school teacher’s practice using homeschool strategies.
