There’s never a good time to sit down and record everything that you do with your homeschool students. So many other tasks seem more urgent and keep you on your toes. It’s easy to let record keeping slide when you are running a homeschool classroom with kids in different grade levels. It’s best not to give in to this temptation. Ensure that you make the time to keep your records updated. It’s going to come in handy for all these reasons.
Legal State Requirements
Each state has a certain set of requirements that the homeschool student must meet in the grade. Keeping records of all the activities that the the homeschool parent has conducted during the academic year is a good way to show the state authorities that you comply with the requirements.
Keeping a Track of Work Done
Often the day to day running of the homeschool classroom seems to blend right into each other. It is tough to know just how much of the syllabus the homeschool student in each grade has covered. By keeping records of what has been done, it makes it easier for the homeschool teacher to keep track of the progress made.
Motivation and Responsibility
The mere act of having a list on the notice board and then ticking off the items covered on it can do wonders for the motivation of a frazzled homeschool teacher. It helps you see in black and white how much of your annual responsibility has been met. It’s a good way to keep the progress visible to the homeschool students as well. They will know just how much work needs to be done and how much of it they have already covered at a single glance.
Report Cards and Academic Transcripts
Having a strong record keeping system can make it much easier to decode the actual performance of the homeschool student at the end of the academic year. Making the report card for the grade as well as the transcripts can become much easier when you already have all the data available and simply have to put it together in a prescribed format.
