Supervising teaching and learning experiences

Parent supervision

To register a child for home schooling, the parent takes responsibility for planning, supervising and recording teaching and learning experiences.

In many home school situations the parent is the sole provider of their child’s learning experiences within the home. In these cases, the parent will be able to more easily account for the teaching and learning experiences their child engaged with for the Authorised Person.

Support persons

There may be situations where a person such as a non-applicant parent, grandparent or carer may support the parent in implementing some aspects of the educational program within the child’s home.

For example, the child may have an auntie who has completed their carpentry apprenticeship, an uncle who is a musician, or a grandparent who used to be a primary school teacher.

In these cases, the relative may support the parent in delivering parts of the program that are relevant to their area of expertise.

The parent, however, remains responsible for ensuring that registration requirements are being met and will need to demonstrate to the Authorised Person how they ensure the delivery of the educational program.

Home schooling parents may demonstrate their collaboration with support persons using a range of record keeping techniques including:

• diary notes
• checklists
• photographs
• notated schedules.

Other sources of support

Some home schooling parents:

• access commercial programs
• engage with tutors
• attend group activities with other home schooling children.

In these cases, the parent:

• maintains responsibility for the planning, supervision, monitoring and recording of the educational program
• will need to identify how the learning experiences are based on and taught in accordance with NESA syllabuses.