Know the Necessity of Conserving Homeschool Transcript Records Whilst Homeschooling

Keeping samples together with records of your high school students work is an fundamental part of getting ready for college. Our recall is not always the greatest and being able to remember what your child did as a freshman could be somewhat tricky without good record keeping.

When keeping your student's homeschool records it is a wise decision to have a area to place each subject area that you teach and to place any paperwork there that you can come across. If your student is writing something for English, it is complicated to recognize what class it is eventually likely to go into. It won't actually make any difference where you place it; what counts is that you put it somewhere.

Having a notebook with a subject tab is advantageous since it allows you to learn what subjects lack records. Colleges may ask to see work samples, however you do not know what the colleges are likely to require. Many colleges may wish to see a lab write-up from a science class. Others may choose to see a math paper or possibly a math test. They may want to see the student's own handwriting on the paper. One of the colleges that we applied to needed a graded English paper.

I wrote a course description for each of the classes as we went along. I wrote it in the form of paragraph, listed the things we did or used, wrote every possible way that I assessed them and placed that on the bottom.

It is necessary to understand that the way you assess your children is not all about testing. Testing is a rather minor part of the way we assess our children. The kids in public schools are not entirely assessed with tests, either. When they go to school, they might be given a grade which is dependant on several different factors. If you, as a homeschooler, are solely giving a grade dependant on your end of chapter tests, you are putting them at a disadvantage against every other student.

Quite often colleges will request other things from people also. They will often call for more from a homeschooler, such as a written paper. I have spoken to many colleges and they are very unhappy at the state of education in our country. How they can have four years of English and get to college without having the skill to read and write? Many college admissions will request samples from everyone, not just homeschoolers.