Homeschool Records - Preparing for College

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lee_Binz]Lee Binz
Saving samples and records of your high school students work is an important aspect of preparing for college. Our recall is not always the best and being able to remember what your child did as a freshman could prove to be quite difficult without good record keeping.
When saving your student's homeschool records it is a good idea to have a place to put each subject area that you teach and to put any papers there that you can find. If your student is writing something for English, it is hard to know what class it is eventually going to go into. It doesn't really matter where you put it; what matters is that you put it somewhere.
Having a notebook with a subject tab is beneficial because it helps you figure out what subjects are lacking records. Colleges may ask to see work samples, but you never know what the colleges are going to ask for. Some colleges may want to see a lab write-up from a science class. Others may want to see a math paper or a math test. They may want to see the student's own handwriting on the paper. One of the colleges that we applied to wanted a graded English paper.
I wrote a course description for each of the classes as we went along. I wrote it as a paragraph, listed the things we did or used, wrote every possible way that I evaluated them and put that on the bottom.
It's important to know 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 schools are not solely evaluated on tests, either. When they go to school, they might be given a grade that's based on many different things. If you, as a homeschooler, are only giving a grade based on your end of chapter tests, you're putting them at a disadvantage against every other student.
Sometimes colleges will ask for other things from people as well. They will occasionally ask for more from a homeschooler, like a written paper. I've talked to a lot of colleges and they're very frustrated at the state of education in our country. How they can have four years of English and come to college without the ability to read or write? Most college admissions will ask for samples from everyone, not only homeschoolers.
Don't make the mistake of not saving samples of your student's work either as a reminder for creating a transcript or for when the college makes a request. Do you need help putting together an amazing transcript that will catch the eye of your dream college? Lee Binz, The HomeScholar, is an expert in how to craft a winning [http://www.totaltranscriptsolution.com]homeschool transcript. She has an award-winning [http://www.thehomescholar.com/blog/]Christian homeschool blog. You can find Lee online at TheHomeScholar.com.
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