Monday 25 November 2013

Preparing Homeschool Records for College

Homeschool Records for College
It's important to get your homeschooler's work organized in preparation for college admission. When you organize your homeschool high school records, it’s a good idea to have a folder, binder, or notebook with subject tabs for each subject area that you cover in your homeschool for placing any papers that you can scrounge up. Don't be paralyzed by indecision when it's something that crosses the curriculum and dips into two subject areas. It doesn’t really matter where you put it; what matters is that you DO save it!
The benefit of using a notebook with a subject tab is so you can easily figure out what subjects you don’t have records for. You won't necessarily know in advance what colleges are going to request for admission. Some colleges will want to see a lab write up from a lab class. Others will want to see a math paper or a math test just to see it in the student's own handwriting. One of the colleges that my son applied to wanted a graded English paper. I’ve talked to a lot of colleges who are very frustrated at the state of public education. Kids can go through FOUR YEARS of English classes and come to college without the ability to read or write! They will want to verify that your student CAN.
I wrote a course description for each of the classes we completed as we homeschooled high school. Each course description was about a paragraph long. I also listed the activities we did and the books or curriculum used, and wrote every possible way that I evaluated them at the bottom.
It’s important to note that the way you evaluate your children is not ALL about testing. Testing is a very small piece of how we evaluate our children. The kids in public or private schools are not solely evaluated on tests. When they go to school, they might be given a grade that’s based on a variety of things, including attendance, homework completion, and participation in class. If you as a homeschooler are only giving a grade based on each of the chapter tests, you’re putting your student at a disadvantage against every other grade in the state.
If you haven't yet begun sorting through your homeschooler's work to have samples ready for colleges, don't panic, get started today! If you need help, you can find my Comprehensive Record Solution at www.TheHomeScholar.com.

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