| Once you have made a decision to home school | | | | know to be able to teach their children, the Alpha |
| your children, the next thing you have to decide | | | | Omega home school can also use specially |
| upon is what teaching method you plan to use. | | | | designed CDs or DVDs to supplement the |
| There are a huge variety of options available | | | | parents' efforts. These are specially designed |
| today, as a search of the internet will | | | | keeping the Alpha Omega process and values in |
| demonstrate. The best way to decide upon which | | | | mind. This is especially useful for parents with |
| home school program is the best for you is to | | | | more than one child to teach - one child can work |
| base your decision up the reason you want to | | | | with the CD based instruction while the other is |
| home school your children and what you want the | | | | being taught by the parent. |
| focus of that education to be. If the reason you | | | | Parents are however cautioned that allowing an |
| decided on homeschooling is the fact that regular | | | | over relaxed attitude to the pace of study can |
| schools have a fixed pace of teaching which | | | | cause a child to feel that he or she can take their |
| cannot be modified to suit the needs of an | | | | own time in learning and may result in children |
| individual child and you want the education your | | | | having a huge backlog study areas by the time |
| children get to be based on Christian values and | | | | they reach the high school stage. |
| practice, then the Alpha Omega home school | | | | For parents who wish to place a Christian |
| program may be the right choice for you. | | | | emphasis on the education their children are |
| The Alpha Omega home school allows children to | | | | receiving, Alpha Omega home school is a great |
| work and progress at their own pace without | | | | option. There are a number of church study |
| time pressures from their teachers or | | | | programs that are part of the Alpha Omega |
| demoralizing comments form their peers. With the | | | | curriculum. Parents are free to choose any of |
| Alpha Omega home school a child may | | | | these to add to the teaching program. However, |
| understand a subject completely ( to the | | | | if none of these are found suitable there are |
| appropriate level) before moving on to the next. | | | | other church, Bible or other Christian study |
| This ensure that children do not get confused or | | | | programs that are available separately and may |
| lose interest by studying a subject they do not | | | | be added to the Alps Omega system. The |
| fully understand. There are two options available | | | | flexibility of he Alpha Omega home school system |
| for the Alpha Omega home school. The first is | | | | is that it allows for different modules from |
| the normal system of text and work books, | | | | different sources to be added on, the only criteria |
| along with material for the parent to use in the | | | | being that the teaching of these should be the |
| teaching process. However, since many parents | | | | same as in Alpha Omega - the child studies at his |
| have neither the knowledge to teach certain | | | | or her own pace. |
| subject nor the time to learn what they need to | | | | |