Whenever your homeschooled child begins high school (around the age of 14-years-old), it is time to start planning for their transcripts. This is something that you don’t want to put off until your child starts filling out college applications because then it will be too difficult to organize 4 years of information.
Keep Good Notes
For each subject, study, class or project that your child undertakes you will want to write down a time frame. You can simply list the months during which your child did this study and the number of hours or weeks that were spent on this study. Make sure that you also note if the instructor was someone other than yourself or if this was an independent study that was undertaken by your child. Also make sure to list any classes that your child took and what grades they received. If you don’t do grades, then simply write, “pass,” “satisfactory” or “completed.” If you do keep grades, don’t forget to keep track of your child’s GPA (Grade Point Average) for each school year. There are online calculators that will help you do this. These GPA’s will then be added together and divided by the number of credit hours in order to get the GPA for the entire school year. This is something that you will want to do for each year of high school.
Other Things To Include In Your Child’s Transcript
You will also want to make sure to keep good notes about any extracurricular activities that your child is involved with. This includes such things as volunteer work, clubs, sports and other groups that your child was involved with throughout the year. Make sure to notate how many hours the activity took and how often the activity took place.
Conclusion
This really is all the information that you will need to keep track of for your child. Once you gather together all of these notes you will be ready to put together a transcript for your child. If you work on this a little each year, by the time your child graduates from high school, they will be ready to apply for college without you stressing over remembering everything they did throughout their high school career.
