How do you set up a portfolio for homeschooling?

Question

This is my first year. i have everything else set up but that.

Answer 1

well what we did was save all the school work we did after it was graded and at the end of the year we put into a separation thing (you can get them at staples) and labeled them. then sent them to the state or whatever.

Answer 2

It is best to start a portfolio from the beginning and keep it until after graduation
Makes it easy to create transcripts and resumes later.

Simple portfolio: materials needed:
Large 3 ring notebook, at least two per year, clear drop sheets, dividers, (you label your catagories).

Keep school work and acheivement certificates in the clear drop sheets. No losing a page because paper holes tear. Keep Notebook in Chonolgical order as much as is possible.

Some items will not fit, that is true. So you can get a large file box Give it the same name as the Notebook, as it is a companion. You can keep your Kids daily fiolders and your Teacher sylabus (daily planner and grade recorder) in the box so the box will be a living part of the year, not tucked away and forgotton.

PLEASE DATE IN FULL ANYTING NOT CLEARLY DATED
Also Please put name of book on unit test. (ie history unit test #10 from A Beca "History of the United States" level 4)
You will be VERY glad later

Keep all information relating to the student: school transcript and all exit scores, also (if there are any) any evaluations.
Start saving school work, especially unit tests, and all other tests.

Outside interests and activities need to be preserved from the start. These will matter when it comes to transcript histories and resumes, and even more for the student with special needs. Some may be in scapbooks or photo album already. Skills (swimming, track, music, dance CPR, etc) Or scouting et al. . Or a docent position (that is a volunteer for a museum or other civic org) A second language, or Sign Language. Or familiarity with care of children with special needs or other. There are many more, have just touched on a few.

Also keep info picked up on feild trips. Student can create booklet containg essay on the trip accompanied by the guide / program. The info serves as the perfect outline for the essay, no matter the level of the student. Graded booklet goes in box or notebook.

Please add to the notebook DAILY!!!. Don't wait until it piles up or you think you have time later. That was my mistake. If the student is old enough he can help.

That should get you started with less stress.
Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Part of this may depend on what your state requires. Here in Texas, we are a private school and have absolutely no oversight by the state whatsoever, so I only keep stuff for my own purposes. Unfortunately, I tend to keep everything (I do separate it into subject binders as I grade it each day/week), simply because I'm too lazy to go through it and sort it out.

If I decided to create a portfolio, I would probably pull out one or two items (good and bad) from the beginning, middle, and end of the school year (or book for something like math) and keep it separate. This will allow you (and anyone else who looks at it) to see what (if any) progress was made during the year.

A protfolio isn't terribly important until you get closer to high school graduation. Colleges may want to look at samples of the student's work to verify the grades you've given if you're not using a correspondence-type course (on-line).

Answer 4

i keep records of all the tests and major things that i do on a cd rom disk and original copys of all my stuff in a binder so i have one for each year and if you ever lose you binder or important papers in it there on the disk (i started keeping a back up record after i lost some important school stuff in a move) good luck homeschooling it's great!

Answer 5

It totally depends on what state you live in. Find out what your state requires. I'm sure that you could get help from this site:
http://www.hslda.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1