CHoSS

Qualifying to be a Homeschooling Parent

Qualifying Courses
1) Great Expectations - Alice Westcott and Beth Rosenzweig
2) Academy Northwest - Linda Krenelka (360)-785-4925 Able to Teach - A Parent Qualifying Course A Training Workshop for those desiring to be more knowledgeable regarding homeschooling Topics Covered: * Legal and Personal Requirements * Homeschool Philosophy * Structure vs. Non-Structure * Developing Thinking Skills * Biblical Education * Learning Styles * Reading Approaches * Testing and Assessments * Child Development * Homeschooling the Older Student * Nurturing Creativity * Hands-On Math * Analysis of Math Resources * Curriculum Overview * Unit Method * Covering the Required Subjects * Locating Resources * Determining If You Can Really Do It * Home and Homeschool Management * Avoiding Burnout
3) OPTions for Parent Teachers - Paula Harper-Christensen

The law:

(4) For the purposes of this chapter and chapter 28A.200 RCW, instruction shall be home-based if it consists of planned and supervised instructional and related educational activities, including a curriculum and instruction in the basic skills of occupational education, science, mathematics, language, social studies, history, health, reading, writing, spelling, and the development of an appreciation of art and music, provided for a number of hours equivalent to the total annual program hours per grade level established for approved private schools under RCW 28A. 195.010 and 28A.195.040 and if such activities are:

(a) Provided by a parent who is instructing his or her child only and are supervised by a certificated person. A certificated person for purposes of this chapter and chapter 28A.200 RCW shall be a person certified under chapter 28A.410 RCW. For purposes of this section, "supervised by a certificated person" means: The planning by the certificated person and the parent of objectives consistent with this subsection; a minimum each month of an average of one contact hour per week with the child being supervised by the certificated person; and evaluation of such child's progress by the certificated person. The number of children supervised by the certificated person shall not exceed thirty for purposes of this subsection; or

(b) Provided by a parent who is instructing his or her child only and who has either earned forty-five college level quarter credit hours or its equivalent in semester hours or has completed a course in home-based instruction at a postsecondary institution or a vocational-technical institute; or

(c) Provided by a parent who is deemed sufficiently qualified to provide home-based instruction by the superintendent of the local school district in which the child resides.

(5) The legislature recognizes that home-based instruction is less structured and more experiential than the instruction normally provided in a classroom setting. Therefore, the provisions of subsection (4) of this section relating to the nature and quantity of instructional and related educational activities shall be liberally construed.