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Getting Started with
Home Schooling:
Practical Consideration

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Home Education
Student Portfolios / Reports

developed by Beverley Paine

Spiral Bound, 210mm x 290mm

$6.00 each

Produce a professional Report Card
for your homeschooling student!

These Reports will help to take the work out of annual assessment, programming and recording.

They include clearly outlined lists of educational aims and objectives for each of the eight nationally recognised curriculum subjects: English, Mathematics, Society and Environment Studies, The Arts, Science, Health, Personal and Physical Development, Languages Other Than English, Technology and Enterprise.

Designed with an easy to follow format, the Reports come with a how to use guide and a list of sample assessment tasks.

Similar to those used by schools to advise parents of student progress the Home Education Reporst have been designed to be used in conjunction with other forms of recording, such as the Practical Homeschooling Weekly Homeschooling Diary, and a portfolio of dated work samples that illustrate the objectives and outcomes of the home education learning program.

The Home Education Portfolio / Report comprises:

• a Cover page with information detailing the Curriculum Subjects, Essential Skills and Understandings, and Assessment Codes used throughout the Report on the reverse;
• Curriculum Subject pages detailing Learning Program Objectives that outline the aims, purpose, general direction and content of the program;
• and the Report Pages: Assessment Tasks.

Home Education Report: Early Childhood

Home Education Report: Middle Childhood

Home Education Report: Early Adolescence

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"When we began homeschooling I had no idea how to write a curriculum for my children. Beverley's Home Education Reports said exactly what I wanted to say but didn't know how to. The lists of objectives for each subject remind me what the purpose is behind all the activities the children do. I find it much easier now that I organise much of their learning into projects and 'assignments' and the professional format looks good at the end of the year and impresses the rest of the family."
Angelika Jensen

In Chapter 7 of Getting Started with Homeschooling Beverley writes on how to record and evaluate your homeschooling learning programs. The chapter has many examples of different recording styles and methods taken from over a decade of the Paine family homeschooling life.

Read articles on Evaluating and Recording on the Homeschool Australia website:

• http://homeschoolaustralia.com/index/evaluating.html
• http://homeschoolaustralia.com/index/recording.html

"Recording - whether by the delightful approach that a snap happy friend of mine does, by keeping her digital camera handy all day, or by jotting notes in a diary, writing anecdotal or explanatory notes on children's samples of work and building a portfolio (a joy to flip through forever) - gets us in touch with the processes at work: how our children learn.

Because we have to pay attention and watch closely and think about what is going on when our child does this or that, or says something different, or behaves in a different manner, and reflect on that, we are better able to discern his or her preferred learning style. This in turn helps us to work out different ways to build on his strengths, or strengthen her weaknesses or expand his limitations. Some of us do this naturally: I know I did but I also acknowledge that I was prone to forgetfulness.

Eventually I decided to keep records more often to help my less than perfect memory. With three children I also frequently fell prey to treating them as homogenous humans, ignoring that fact that they were individuals and had completely different ways of perceiving and learning about the world! "

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families are able to develop curriculum
and learning programs to suit the
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