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Evaluation and Recording Home Education The easiest and quickest way to build confidence in home educating your children is to keep records. You don't have to keep meticulous records every day, though it certainly helps, but collating a sample of what's happening at home and analysing it educationally every so often will help to boost confidence AND keep the homeschooling learning program on track. Home educators are notorious for underestimating the power of keeping records of their children's learning. Few understand the many benefits and many regard record keeping as a tiresome chore. I know what I know about education, learning and helping children learn at home because I kept records. The evidence I collated (rather haphazardly over a dozen years) became the germ of a book, Getting Started with Homeschooling Practical Considerations, and then a series of Practical Homeschooling Booklets. On this website you will find a growing collection of articles that aim to encoruage you to maintain some kind of record keeping and evaluation regime as a home educator. There are lots of tips and ideas and many examples. If you'd like to share how you keep records or plan and monitor your children's learning at home we'd love to hear from you. Keeping Records
Assessment and Monitoring of Progress
Samples of Homeschool Records See also Example Homeschool Learning Programs Index
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.