Traditional Home Education

A traditional home education approach is parent-directed, where the parent is the ‘teacher’ and ‘principal’ of the home-based learning program. The parent(s) are in full control of choosing all facets of the home education for their child. This provides the most flexibility and autonomy of all of the methods or approaches for home education. The traditional choice also requires the most parental planning and instructional time.

Within traditional Home Education (which is 100% parent-taught and 100% parent-led…Program Code 600), the home educating parent assumes the responsibility (in the eyes of Alberta Education) to provide a learning program that will, “enable the student to achieve the outcomes contained in the Schedule included in the Home Education Regulation.” This Schedule is the Schedule of Learning Outcomes (SOLO), and it is a list of 22 expectations* that Alberta Education has regarding the content of a Basic Education (their term and definition). Within the list of 20 expectations for a Basic Education, you’ll notice that half are academic and half are intra/inter-personal skills and abilities. Click HERE to see the official Schedule of Learning Outcomes.

As our name implies, THEE is a staunch advocate for traditional home education, and we enjoy supporting and encouraging our families who commit to home education through all grade levels.

*NOTE: The SOLO contains two expectations for a basic education followed by twenty “outcomes” for the basic education

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High School With an Eye on Post-Secondary Education

thee has successfully worked with students at the high school level to help prepare them for post-secondary education (college, university, or technical schools). Students, who will be home educating through the high school grades of 10-12 and who intend to further their studies after high school, will need to select one of the following “academic preparation paths”. Also, before you select your path/option, we highly recommend that you first learn of the admission requirements of your chosen post-secondary institution(s) and that you do not focus on only the minimum standards for admission. Admission to post-secondary institutions is competitive in Alberta, so having the minimum requirements may not help you.

Students, together with their parents, are encouraged to discuss the path that they will choose. Each path should lead the student to achieving the academic or skills preparation that will be required for the strongest possible application to his/her chosen post-secondary institution.  For additional information on paths that will lead to post secondary studies and learning opportunities, please visit https://alis.alberta.ca/explore-education-and-training/transfer-alberta/

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ALIGNED PROGRAM

The term has several different definitions across the province, so please contact us if you would like to know if we offer an “aligned” program.

The official answer is, “NO”. NO ONE is offering an aligned program – because it doesn’t exist (as per Alberta Ed).  If a program is offering an “aligned” program (or any other creatively-named program), most likely that program is also offering to you more $$$ in various forms.  These creatively-named programs typically use terms from home education to make the program sound legitimate and to sound like it is a creative way to still home educate your child while receiving more $$$.

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TUTORING

Traditional tutoring supports home educated students with a wide variety of subjects and interest areas (eg., creative writing, Saxon math, Apologia science, college and career planning courses, and Bible and Christian Worldview studies).
Students have access to both onsite and online tutoring networks.

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