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Reprinted with permission from the blog: Magic and Mayhem
We’ve been doing a lot of brainstorming about how to log Victoria’s high school years now that she’s in 9th grade. There’s so much conflicting information out there about high school, homeschool and transcripts, especially when it comes to eclectic homeschoolers and unschoolers.
You could go nuts trying to follow all of the advice out there. Ultimately, I decided that it has always worked so well for us to homeschool in our own way that it made sense to handle the teen years and transcripts in our own way too.
I have compiled all sorts of links and quotes here that helped me solidify our goals. I’m also sharing how we’re handling transcripts in case it helps others. I’ve written about the various ways of compiling transcripts (such as traditional and narrative styles) and have compiled lots of links to free transcript templates and information from colleges here.
The first conclusion I’ve come to is that it is not necessary to try to suddenly pretend we’re traditional schoolers.
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What are we doing? Well, we’re doing a mixture of everything.
My goals and considerations include:
So what we’re doing, together, as a team:
For the purpose of our records, I am assigning one credit for 150 hours of study on that subject and a thorough understanding of the topic. One half credit is assigned for 75 hours of study.
It is not enough to spend 150 hours reading about black holes (one of Toria’s fascinations) and then count it as a credit in basic astronomy, for instance. If she rounds that out with reading through a basic astronomy textbook or reads a good assortment of general astronomy books so she has really mastered astronomy in general and then supplements that with lots of reading about black holes, that definitely counts.
I feel pretty confident that we can easily satisfy both her need for a rigorous high school education with her desire to continue being in charge of her own education.
To read this blog post in it’s entirety, please visit Magic and Mayhem. The author, Alicia, and her husband homeschool their five kids, ages 1, 5, 9, 13 and 14, in Southwest Minnesota. She blogs at Magic and Mayhem and also writes a homeschooling column at http://www.examiner.com/homeschooling-in-mankato/alicia-bayer, where she focuses on great resources, freebies and ways to keep homeschooling fun for everybody.
February 16, 2013
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