Home School, High School, & Beyond: A Time Management, Career Exploration, Organizational & Study Skills Course - Softcover
Home School, High School and Beyond is a time management, study skills, and organizational how-to book specifically written for home schooled teens and their parents. All the information needed to organize and document home school experiences in the high school years is provided.
It not only shows how to translate real life experiences into high school credits; it teaches how to create courses based on interest areas. Getting and keeping home school, high school records organized is easy using the reproducible forms provided. Teens are guided through the process step-by-step.
Making the most out of study efforts and evaluating results are detailed. Daily planning and time management is also covered. Post high school education -- making choices, getting in, and paying for it -- is an underlying theme. It is a book every home schooled teen should read!
This 7th Edition, published in 2008, includes a CD-ROM that has all the reproducible forms and charts from the printed book.
First published in 1992, Home School, High School and Beyond remains the only home school high school book written for the student.
Contents
Nine Chapters/Sections:
Establishing Goals and Setting Priorities
Create Your Tentative High School Plan
Working Out This Year s Plan
Planning Individual Courses
Completing Assignments & Projects
Making Weekly and Daily Schedules
Keeping Records of Your Accomplishments
Making Decisions About Post H. S. Education
Paying For College
Three Appendices:
Topics and Course Ideas for H. S. Studies
Testing Information and Summaries
Bibliography - Suggested Reading Material
Contact Resources:
Support Groups
State Education Departments
Home School Suppliers
Suggested Activities Follow Each Section
27 Cartoon Illustrations
30 Reproducible Forms Masters
Index
It not only shows how to translate real life experiences into high school credits; it teaches how to create courses based on interest areas. Getting and keeping home school, high school records organized is easy using the reproducible forms provided. Teens are guided through the process step-by-step.
Making the most out of study efforts and evaluating results are detailed. Daily planning and time management is also covered. Post high school education -- making choices, getting in, and paying for it -- is an underlying theme. It is a book every home schooled teen should read!
This 7th Edition, published in 2008, includes a CD-ROM that has all the reproducible forms and charts from the printed book.
First published in 1992, Home School, High School and Beyond remains the only home school high school book written for the student.
Contents
Nine Chapters/Sections:
Establishing Goals and Setting Priorities
Create Your Tentative High School Plan
Working Out This Year s Plan
Planning Individual Courses
Completing Assignments & Projects
Making Weekly and Daily Schedules
Keeping Records of Your Accomplishments
Making Decisions About Post H. S. Education
Paying For College
Three Appendices:
Topics and Course Ideas for H. S. Studies
Testing Information and Summaries
Bibliography - Suggested Reading Material
Contact Resources:
Support Groups
State Education Departments
Home School Suppliers
Suggested Activities Follow Each Section
27 Cartoon Illustrations
30 Reproducible Forms Masters
Index
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About the Author:
About the Author
Beverly L. Adams-Gordon is a veteran home educator. She has actively home educated her three daughters for over 20 years. Her older daughters were graduated from home education in 1992 and 1994 while her youngest is just beginning High School at home. In addition to being an accomplished pianist and vocalist, her youngest daughter is an amazing artist who paints mainly in oil, but also dabbles in computer generated and enhanced graphics.
Ms. Adams-Gordon has eight years experience teaching in classrooms and working as a home school supervisory teacher, home education consultant, and administrator of achievement tests and non-test assessments. She is a popular speaker at home education conferences and teacher in-service programs throughout the United States and Canada.
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Beverly L. Adams-Gordon is a veteran home educator. She has actively home educated her three daughters for over 20 years. Her older daughters were graduated from home education in 1992 and 1994 while her youngest is just beginning High School at home. In addition to being an accomplished pianist and vocalist, her youngest daughter is an amazing artist who paints mainly in oil, but also dabbles in computer generated and enhanced graphics.
Ms. Adams-Gordon has eight years experience teaching in classrooms and working as a home school supervisory teacher, home education consultant, and administrator of achievement tests and non-test assessments. She is a popular speaker at home education conferences and teacher in-service programs throughout the United States and Canada.
Beverly puts it all together in a student directed time management program that begins with goal setting, defines terms such as credit, grade, syllabus, etc. and then helps them choose their necessary courses geared to their future plans. She shows how courses can be formatted with the traditional, modified, unit study, or an independent approach. --Vicky Goodchild, HIS Publishing, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
There is an enthusiasm for learning that comes through the pages - which, after all, is why many people are home schooling their children! We want them to keep looking and learning beyond those years we have charge over them. --Linda and Crystal Barlean, WHA s Happening , Whatcom Home School Assoc., Washington
Unless your high schooler is enrolled in a planned curriculum or one of you is an extremely organized person, you and he may have figured out some of the things in this course on your own, but especially if you are working with your first high schooler the chances are that you and he are not entirely certain that you are doing all you should in the area of keeping records, etc. Home School, High School and Beyond can help you do this. It will also help your child learn how to take on some of the responsibilities of goal-setting keeping records, planning and decision-making about high school that is starting to overwhelm you as you also try to choose curriculum for your other children and plan dinner and go on field trips and do the laundry and... --Karen Horton, The Catholic Home Educator
Unless your high schooler is enrolled in a planned curriculum or one of you is an extremely organized person, you and he may have figured out some of the things in this course on your own, but especially if you are working with your first high schooler the chances are that you and he are not entirely certain that you are doing all you should in the area of keeping records, etc. Home School, High School and Beyond can help you do this. It will also help your child learn how to take on some of the responsibilities of goal-setting keeping records, planning and decision-making about high school that is starting to overwhelm you as you also try to choose curriculum for your other children and plan dinner and go on field trips and do the laundry and... --Karen Horton, The Catholic Home Educator
Beverly puts it all together in a student directed time management program that begins with goal setting, defines terms such as credit, grade, syllabus, etc. and then helps them choose their necessary courses geared to their future plans. She shows how courses can be formatted with the traditional, modified, unit study, or an independent approach. --Vicky Goodchild, HIS Publishing, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
There is an enthusiasm for learning that comes through the pages - which, after all, is why many people are home schooling their children! We want them to keep looking and learning beyond those years we have charge over them. --Linda and Crystal Barlean, WHA s Happening , Whatcom Home School Assoc., Washington
Unless your high schooler is enrolled in a planned curriculum or one of you is an extremely organized person, you and he may have figured out some of the things in this course on your own, but especially if you are working with your first high schooler the chances are that you and he are not entirely certain that you are doing all you should in the area of keeping records, etc. Home School, High School and Beyond can help you do this. It will also help your child learn how to take on some of the responsibilities of goal-setting keeping records, planning and decision-making about high school that is starting to overwhelm you as you also try to choose curriculum for your other children and plan dinner and go on field trips and do the laundry and... --Karen Horton, The Catholic Home Educator
Unless your high schooler is enrolled in a planned curriculum or one of you is an extremely organized person, you and he may have figured out some of the things in this course on your own, but especially if you are working with your first high schooler the chances are that you and he are not entirely certain that you are doing all you should in the area of keeping records, etc. Home School, High School and Beyond can help you do this. It will also help your child learn how to take on some of the responsibilities of goal-setting keeping records, planning and decision-making about high school that is starting to overwhelm you as you also try to choose curriculum for your other children and plan dinner and go on field trips and do the laundry and... --Karen Horton, The Catholic Home Educator
Beverly puts it all together in a student directed time management program that begins with goal setting, defines terms such as credit, grade, syllabus, etc. and then helps them choose their necessary courses geared to their future plans. She shows how courses can be formatted with the traditional, modified, unit study, or an independent approach. --Vicky Goodchild, HIS Publishing, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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