What did you have for dinner last night?
Time's up.
Did you remember? I didn't.
That's why I spent time this week putting together High School Portfolios for my teen students.
My oldest is going to be a junior so I haven't had the college application experience yet. But, after listening to others, I'm keeping records in case my kids need them for college.
Since I can't remember last night's dinner, it's important that I write things down (and store the information in the computer).
I have a binder for my two oldest. The binder has tabs for each subject for each grade. With my oldest, I started in 9th grade, but for my next I'm starting in 8th grade because he may use some or all of his 8th grade as high school work. Actually, my oldest will probably use some of his 8th grade work as early high school courses too (possibly Algebra 1 and Physical Science).
For each subject put some/all of the following in the binder:
Time's up.
Did you remember? I didn't.
That's why I spent time this week putting together High School Portfolios for my teen students.
My oldest is going to be a junior so I haven't had the college application experience yet. But, after listening to others, I'm keeping records in case my kids need them for college.
Since I can't remember last night's dinner, it's important that I write things down (and store the information in the computer).
I have a binder for my two oldest. The binder has tabs for each subject for each grade. With my oldest, I started in 9th grade, but for my next I'm starting in 8th grade because he may use some or all of his 8th grade as high school work. Actually, my oldest will probably use some of his 8th grade work as early high school courses too (possibly Algebra 1 and Physical Science).
For each subject put some/all of the following in the binder:
- description of the class which I can usually get from the curriculum provider's website or the website of the online class
- final grades
- copies of tests
- a list of every grade the student received for that class ( I only do this for some classes)
- for writing- an example of a writing assignment
- a list of books used for each class- the literature and history lists are long
- service hours- I require at least 50 hours per year for high school
- special awards (ie: Eagle Scout)
A great website that we use to track service hours is http://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/
How do you keep track of your middle school and high school students' work?
Any veteran homeschoolers have additional suggestions?
