Getting Started with Homeschooling
Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children
© Beverley Paine
Index
Homeschool
Australia
Some Examples Of Recording And Evaluation
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Although preparing the list is quite a task, filling it out only takes a few moments each day. The author prepared the shown checklist as a pro-forma, and kept blank copies on file for future use, together with other checklists used in the evaluation process. Part 9 contains several lists relating to different areas of traditional curriculum that could be easily adapted and used as checklists. Checklists can relate specifically to skills, activities in different subject areas, content or knowledge, attitudes, chapters or sections in text books, excursion ideas ..... almost anything to do with your learning program.
Checklists are quick and convenient ways to monitor the type and amount of work done, but seldom reflect the true learning experiences occurring. The example offered is a simple tick sheet, but they can include space for comment if desired. Most checklists are an important part of the evaluation process, but they still need to be used in conjunction with more detailed recording. They are most useful for helping you to remember specific learning events when you don’t have time to write in your journal, or recall specific learning situations to record as anecdotal accounts at the end of the day. Working from a check-list such as the example shown, with its lists of types of activities in the different learning areas, are particularly helpful in this way.
Checklists can be used by the children as a planning and recording aide. They can help children remember what tasks they need to do, and when. They help children learn self discipline and organisation, and encourage responsibility for their own learning programs.
Roger - Week Ending 20/5/94
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Retelling Story | |
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List | |
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| Coded message | ‘My Word' | ||||||||||||
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Wordsearch | |||||||||||
| 'Reading Skills' | ‘Sentence S'th' | ||||||||||||
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Bead Making | Sketching | |
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| Embroidery | Rock Painting | |
Play dough | Painting | Puppets | ||||||||
| Applique | Windchimes | Paper Making | Oil Pastels | Masks | |||||||||
| Candle Making | |
Collage | Tie Dyeing | Woodwork | |
Pinata | |
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| Clay Work | Printing Art | Press Flowers | Dancing | Model making | |||||||||
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Carving | Role Playing | Music | |
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| Society, Environment, Technology and Science - at least eight explorations a week | |||||||||||||
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Natural History | Sound | |
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Excerpt from Getting Started with Homeschooling, Practical Considerations
© Beverley Paine, 1997
