When you sit down to teach math to your home school student, you probably reach for all the helps and resources you can get.
To help things run smoothly, many parents turn to DVDs. But what are you really getting with a DVD education? Well, let’s take a brief look at teaching homeschool math with DVDs.
DVD instruction is essentially where a teacher is filmed teaching each lesson from a textbook. All of this information is recorded onto a DVD which parents can show to their students before their students study their lessons for that day.
A typical day with a DVD education system might look like this:
- Open DVD
- put DVD in player
- navigate to section being studied that day
- watch clip, following along in the textbook
- Read textbook section
- work practice problems
- work homework problems as assigned
- Review DVD as needed.
Click Here to view some sample video clips of DVD lessons by AskDrCallahan
Parents/Students who might want to use a DVD course include (but certainly isn’t limited to) those who:
- haven’t studied math in a while and need some help remembering the concepts
- independent/ teach themselves
- want a classroom experience, but who want to customize the pace for what makes sense for them
- enjoy/require visual preparation and review resource
- things just make more sense when you can watch someone else work the problems on a board before attempting them yourself
There are many reasons and benefits to getting a DVD course. You can probably think of others that I didn’t list above. If you have a DVD course, why did you decide to go that route? Would you recommend DVD courses to other homeschooling families? Why?Why not?
