Making the Grade: A Practical Guide for Grading & Evaluating Homeschooled Children - Softcover

Myers, Lesha

 
9780979450617: Making the Grade: A Practical Guide for Grading & Evaluating Homeschooled Children

Synopsis

A friendly introduction to grading and evaluating homeschoolers Take the mystery out of grading! This book offers many approaches to evaluation and covers all subject areas including benefits, explanations, examples, biblical perspective, and philosophy. Making the Grade • Shows how God Himself grades by examining His evaluation criteria for the kings of Judah • Analyzes the reasons parents find it hard to grade their own children • Discusses the benefits of grading • Examines the Biblical perspective on testing • Offers eight basic ways to evaluate students, which you can adapt for your own family • Considers your family’s grading philosophy, when to grade attitude and effort, and how to keep records but still have time to teach • Shows how to grade each individual subject • Contains numerous examples • Contains two adaptable forms—that’s right, only two!

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About the Author

Lesha Myers served as the administrator of a private school satellite program, Cameron Academy, for 15 years. After running out of children to teach, her youngest graduated from homeschool high school in 2004, she went back to school, earned her teacher’s credential and Masters in Education, and started teaching high school English at a local Christian school. She has written two history books, His California Story, and Continuing the Journey, as well as a helpful homeschool resource, Making the Grade. Her writing books offer a step-by-step process that take the mystery out of writing. They include The Elegant Essay to equip teachers and parents to teach basic essay writing, Windows to the World: An Introduction to Literary Analysis to help students write about and understand literature at a deep level, and Writing Research Papers: The Essential Tools to teach students how to write beginning, intermediate, and advanced research papers. Learn more at www.Cameron-Publishing.com.

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