Home School High School Tips: Homeschooling High School Students Keep Raising the Academic Bar

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Homeschooling High School Students Keep Raising the Academic Bar
For many homeschool parents, the first day of official “preschool homeschool” is the start of their “high school fears”, the nagging concern that they won’t be able to provide a quality education for their children during the pre-college years and will ultimately “fail” their children academically. Don’t let this happen to you. There is no reason to begin worrying about your high school homeschooling program when it is such a long way away. The very nature of homeschooling is that as your children grow, so shall your own experiences and abilities to provide quality instruction and guidance on higher academic levels. In fact, many homeschool parents report that their experience with the teenage years is much easier than anticipated. By the time most students reach high school, they actively self-direct their own learning objectives and study independently. They have learned to use time wisely and apply themselves in a responsible manner. If your homeschool environment is one that has built upon your child’s own ability to learn and to seek out new learning opportunities based upon his own curiosity and interest, you will discover that your teenager will continue to pursue knowledge in this same manner in his adult life. When your child reaches high school, you will have spent many years guiding, instructing and modeling the independent learning methods and skills that you want your child to learn; as you both enter the high school years you will observe your child using these skills and working independently.

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Home School High School Tips: Online Courses Offer Diversity To The College Bound Homeschooled High School Student

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Online Courses Offer Diversity To The College Bound Homeschooled High School Student

For many homeschool high school students the idea of virtual or correspondence schools offers a friendly educational environment within the confines of the homeschool classroom. For many college bound homeschool students, the idea of a virtual classroom provides an expanded opportunity to learn college courses without having to conform to a college class schedule. The online courses are offered to each student at any time, any location. This flexible scheduling allows for homeschool students to continue with their current social and academic commitments while increasing the overall educational opportunities. homeschool high school students, they are already committed to job share programs, volunteer work, family responsibilities and personal interests and clubs. The online or virtual high school offers many different accredited classes, a professional transcript and a learning experience unlike any other. For the virtual high school student, the members of any course can be located from all different corners of the world, allowing for cross cultural learning to take place as well as the desired curriculum. Students are able to interact with teachers and peers in lively conversations, exchanging ideas from different cultures and locations around the world. There are many different online high school programs available for the homeschool student; taking the time to research each educational program to insure that you find the best fit for your family is going to be a key element in your final choice (A home based curriculum can still include homeschool science. As you did when you first began homeschooling so many years ago, research your options and don’t settle for anything less than the best for your child.

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Home School High School Tips: Financial Aid

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Financial Aid
Admission to college can be expensive. Howeevr, every college offers financial aid of some kind(ie, ability to pay does not affect admission status).

Financial aid groud rules are nationally standardized, so they hold true for all institutions. Be aware that the financial aid field is a prime one for illegitimate companies seeking to separate you from your money by “finding” you scholarship money for a “fee.”

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Home School High School Tips: Easing the Admissions Process

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Easing the Admissions Process
One completely legitimate way to enter a four-year college (my most recommended way while teaching public school) is to have your child take junior college classes as a high school student. Once he or she has acquired a proper number of credits, it may be possible to transfer right into a four-year college as a junior. The junior college will not ask for high school transcripts because your child is technically a high school student, not seeking full entry into the junior college. This works well for many families since junior college systems in most states allow high school students to take courses without being formally enrolled as full-time college students.

When a student transfers to a four-year school as a junior, all required paperwork comes from the junior college; therefore the fact that a student has been educated in a home school high school environment.

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Home School High School Tips: Employability Portfolios

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Employability Portfolios
Create an employability portfolio to set career goals, assess your job skills, and to present yourself as a candidate for employment.
This portfolio should answer these basic questions:

•Who is this young person?
•What is his or her interest in our organization or school?
•What does this person know?
•What is he or she able to do?
•What does this person want to do with his or her life?
•Are we a good match for each other?

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Home School High School Tips: Homeschool High School SAT Help

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Homeschool High School SAT Help
For any homeschool student who would like to go on to college, this homeschool resource, The Official SAT Study Guide, published by The College Board is a must have.

Developed by the people who create the SATs, this guide provides study tips, strategies, and 8 of the most recent tests with answers. The SATs remain an important indicator for college acceptance. Although many colleges and universities now keep slots open specifically or homeschooled students, your best chance for success is to help them say yes by taking and acing the test.

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Home School High School Tips: Getting Into College, Part 1

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Getting Into College, Part 1
In order for your child to get into college, you should keep good records, develop your own transcripts, and have your child take the college entrance exams (SAT, ACT, and CEB). You can obtain information about these tests from your statewide homeschool organization.

Every major college and university accepts homeschooled students; some even seek out college-bound homeschoolers because they are typically serious about learning and do not attend college to party. Recently, a university rejected a homeschooled student on the grounds that the student had not attended an accredited high school, despite the fact that his transcripts and SAT scores would have gained him admission to Harvard. The applicant took the school to court and won admission.

Check into the colleges your child wishes to apply to and obtain their specific requirements. Many private colleges in the US rely on interviews as well as written recommendations to determine the student´s ability to shoulder the school´s workload. Homeschoolers are welcome at these institutions and they do well in college.

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Home School High School Tips: Transcripts

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Transcripts
You can obtain an academic record of your child’s schooling career in two ways:

• The first way is to keep the records yourself and then create a transcript( See my tips on how to make a transcript)format document for such use.

• The other way is to enroll in an independent study program (ISP), either public or private, that maintains records and generates transcripts for you.

An independent study program is called something different in nearly every state.

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Home School High School Tips: Getting Into College, Part 2

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: Getting Into College, Part 2
Another way to to get your child into college is to keep your own transcripts, have your child take the admissions tests (SAT, ACT, and/or CEB, depending on the requirements of the university), and perform the standard application process required of all prospective college entrants.

Many homeschoolers score very well in college entrance exams, and that fact alone can guarantee them a place at some schools. Other schools will also require transcripts (typically written in “educationalese”.) Usually it does not matter whether or not your high school work is from an accredited school.

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Home School High School Tips: High School Accreditation

November 18th, 2009 Shaka

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Home School High School Tips: High School Accreditation
Parents often worry about high school accreditation. If this is one of your concerns and you want your child to attend an accredited high school, then enroll him into one of the many nationally accredited correspondence schools – such as The American School, Homesctudy International, or Keystone National High School.

*For more information, check out the tips in the “Resources” section.

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