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Homeschool High School / Unschool Q: How do you determine credit for unschool / extracurricular activities?

At least a 3rd of my son's learning is from extracurricular (speech club) and Unschooling activities (apprenticeship, computer stuff, music, etc.).

For these activities, I am pondering a fair and accurate way to "award" high school credit. He is definitely learning a great deal with these activities and I think his transcript should reflect this.

But... for those of you with a student or are yourself in high school and following at least a somewhat unschool approach...

Can you suggest any guidelines / methods for awarding credit? Documenting the learning is easy because nearly everything is project oriented with tangible output.

We don't really track our "unschool" hours but perhaps we should.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

My friends with high schoolers have said that they track their kids' hours spent in programs like that and award credit accordingly.

In order to earn a full credit, a student should spend 3.5-5 hours per week on a subject; if your son spends that much each week on speech club (attending, preparing, researching, etc.), that (in my mind, at least) would count as an English/Speech credit.

The same for apprenticeship, computers, and music - if he spends at least 3.5-5 hours per week in each of these, that counts as a credit. Computer science and music are pretty easy to assign; the apprenticeship, depending on what it is, could count as science, business, etc.

I have a 10yo, so we're not there yet, but I count his competitive baseball team as a PE credit, Scouts as a class (the child easily puts 3-5 hours per week into his badge work), and plays that he is in as a theater arts elective credit.

That's how I would do it - time. If he puts in the time, he gets the credit. You could sit down with him and decide on criteria for grading, and then just apply that criteria to his work.

Hope that helps!

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