Question about the home school community

[alis]

Hello everyone!

I teach English as a second language. I taught adults, but I would now like to teach children on a part-time basis because I have a young son. As far as I am aware, all of my (adult) students send their children to public or private schools (private ones are almost always religion-based). Are you aware of any home school children whose parents are ESL?

I'm hoping to offer lessons in the future and I'm just curious if there is a market available in the home school community as well. I do not home school myself (my son is only 4 months old) but I am very supportive of parental choice in academics.

Thanks

[briansmama]

Yes, there is. In our large county there are writing classes offered by english teachers in their homes for small groups of homeschoolers.

Many of these enrichment-type classes are offered in someone's home several times throughout the week so the groups can be kept to small, mentorship-style learning environments.

And, from what I understand (my ds doesn't go to writing group but many of the older kids in our homeschool group sign up for ongoing writing classes every semester), they are pretty fun and the kids seem to enjoy going.

Hope that helps!

[Britishmum]

I would think that there is also a market for you teaching your native language to homeschoolers. Maybe more this than E2L. We have a lot of Spanish classes in our homeschool community, but few other languages. I wish I could find a good German teacher for a homeschool class for my kids!