Course descriptions are an important part of your homeschool student’s high school records, because they give colleges a great picture of what their homeschooling was like. Good record keeping is key to create those course descriptions. If you don’t keep good records, it will be difficult to remember what you did, especially if you have multiple children. Use your records as the tools that they are, and your course descriptions will be a breeze!

It is particularly easy to describe the course if you use a textbook. Save a photocopy of the book cover and table of contents, and you can create a full course description with just that information. Another good thing about using textbooks is that if you visit the publisher’s website or catalog, they often have course descriptions there, already written for you.

For the easiest course description experience, keep track of everything He does it is educational and uses it to help write his course descriptions. If you go to a museum, put the receipt in your records folder (or however you want to keep your records). If your student creates a sculpture, take a photo and keep it for their records. Whenever you do something or go somewhere educational, find out where it fits in and keep a record of it.

Of course, you don’t need to keep everything! Your child will take a lot of tests and write a lot of assignments, but you don’t have to stick with each one. Just keep the ones that are out of the ordinary, special, or well-represented, and include them in your records.

It is important to remember that record keeping is not a junk reserve! Those nice photos you took of the state fair should be put in your scrapbook and not your log. If you have a tall soccer trophy from when your child was in fifth grade and won the most inspiring student, don’t include it! This is a keepsake and is not part of your record. Keep things that are academic in nature or things that are high school level.

Do not forgetIt is relatively common for homeschooling students to complete secondary level material. when they are younger. If, for example, your high school student is doing algebra right now, be sure to keep some algebra records even if he is not yet in ninth grade. It’s academic, and it’s high school level, so stay tuned!