YMB #135 Measuring Success as a Homeschooler

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Your Morning Basket podcast, host Pam Barnhill discusses how to assess learning in your homeschool morning time. She explains the importance of setting goals, self-assessment, parent observation, and real-world application in evaluating your children's progress. Pam also shares practical tips on how to incorporate morning time activities into traditional assessment models, including issuing transcripts for high schoolers.

However, she emphasizes that non-traditional methods of assessment, such as building relationships and fostering a love for learning, are just as important in evaluating the success of your morning time routine. If you're looking for ways to measure your homeschooling progress beyond traditional tests and grades, be sure to tune in to this insightful episode!

Find the show notes for this episode at https://pambarnhill.com/ymb135

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:08.0	Do you want to build closer relationships?
0:10.0	Remove some of the stress around planning and enjoy learning with your children.
0:15.0	Welcome to your Morning Basket.
0:17.0	I'm Pam Barnhill, a homeschool mom just like you,
0:20.0	and I'm going to show you the magic and
0:22.5	fulfillment that morning basket or morning time can bring to your homeschool. Grab your coffee or tea,
0:28.3	and let's get started. Welcome to episode 135 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill. So happy you're here today. And today we're going to be talking about something a little bit different. We're going to be talking about how can we measure our success with homeschooling, especially if we're using a practice like morning time where we're not exactly giving grades to our kids. How do we know that this is working?
0:56.7	And we're going to break this down in a few different ways today. So homeschooling can be rather
1:02.1	non-traditional. And there are a lot of homeschoolers who don't give grades. And there are a lot of
1:07.4	reasons for that. I actually have a 10 minutes to a better homeschool podcast. I'll link for you about why grades are not really the best way to measure your homeschooling
1:17.2	efforts. And certainly with something like morning time. You know, I don't see you putting morning
1:21.6	time on a transcript and actually putting a grade label on that. For one thing, a lot of people
1:26.6	aren't going to know what you're talking about. And I can even talk a little bit later in this podcast about how you might use
1:33.3	some of the things that you're doing in morning time on your transcript. But the very first thing is
1:38.5	let's talk about goals. So one of the ways to measure the success of your homeschooling through morning
1:43.9	time is by setting
1:45.4	some goals. And you can either do individual goals for each of your children, like this child
1:51.2	is going to memorize this many poems or something of that nature. Now, even with memorizing poetry,
1:57.8	my family does this together. So I would even make family learning goals. So morning time might be a
2:04.3	place instead of doing individual goals for each child, you do some family learning goals. And you say,
2:09.8	as a family, we're going to memorize 15 poems this year. Now, why would we do that? Because we're not memorizing poetry just to,
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