Many have attested to its effectiveness in improving the performance of children as well as their personality and behavior. In fact, there is about seven to 15 percent increase in families choosing to undergo homeschooling. Colleges have observed good school performances from students who have undergone homeschooling. For these reasons, non traditional home schooling education is gaining popularity and perhaps it won't be long before this non traditional method will be considered mainstream. In the meantime though, it is in your best interest as a parent to ensure that the quality of education that you bring to your child or children through home schooling is at par or even better than traditional methods he or she can experience in a classroom setting. The type of curriculum that you choose would depend on the type of education that you want to provide for your child. There are religion-based high school home schooling curriculums that you can follow if you prefer to incorporate religious component into the lessons of your child. There are also curriculums that focus on the Sciences and the Arts that you might also consider. Different subjects may require various educational tools to help your children learn and understand their lessons better. For history and geography lessons, it is important to have a globe or a world map available as well as history and geography books within reach. For science subjects, your students would require, magnifying glasses, prisms, a microscope or a telescope depending on your child's grade level. This means that learning should not only consist of reading books and reciting phonetics but should also involve practical and situational experiences such as talking to people, selling an idea, asking questions, and even reasoning or arguing. One can also incorporate reading of dialogues with the use of different voices and intonations. That is why during the 19th century, with all the progress going on all over the world, it has been realized that the government should have to take the responsibility of providing education for its growing population. This resulted in the government building more and more schools to accommodate more students.