Because homeschoolers have so much freedom, homeschool planning can be overwhelming! Here is a simple five-step process to plan a great year for your family.
Guía de planificación para la educación en la casa
Step 1: Assess & Reflect
El primer paso de la guía de planificación para educar en casa es evaluar tu situación actual. Dado que el homeschooling es una prolongación natural de la paternidad, un plan exitoso debe considerar la vida familiar en su totalidad.
Evaluate each child’s current strengths and weaknesses and whether they are growing in each area. For older kids, sit down and fill out the worksheet together.
We recommend planning your homeschool year assessing four areas: academic, health, character y social.
Kids are more likely to participate cheerfully when they are part of the process 🙂
Our worksheet will guide you as you assess your children in each area →
Some thoughts to help guide your evaluation of each area ↴
Academics →
We recommend starting with your child’s Acomodaciones para las evaluaciones scores.
Are they meeting their growth goals?
Health →
¿Hace su familia suficiente ejercicios?
¿Le gusta hacer ejercicios?
¿Y están durmiendo lo suficiente?
¿Hay alguna necesidad médica que deba ser acomodada?
Character →
¿Existen problemas que necesiten atencion o temas que esten preparados para explorar mas a fondo?
¿Tienen fortalezas que te gustaría que se fomenten?
Social →
¿Has encontrado el balance correcto en tus actividades sociales?
¿Son Feliz?
¿Están encontrando conexiones significativas?
Step 2: Set Priorities
Al planificar tu homeschool, tus prioridades variarán drásticamente de un niño a otro y de un año a otro.
For a kindergartner, your primary focus may be social, while with older kids, academics will likely play a larger role.
For elementary school, you may prioritize exploring interests, while in high school you may be focused on completing the required coursework for college.
Make this year’s goals about this year’s needs. You may want to focus on supporting your child through a transition like the birth of a new sibling, moving, starting to homeschool, or going through a medical crisis.
Balance developing their strengths and attending to weaknesses. Think about what kind of learning works best for them, and what they need to be happy and relaxed.
For teens and independent tweens, be sure to include them in the process— they may surprise you with what they want to take on!
Sit down with your spouse or a close friend and discuss your observations from step 1 and your long-term goals for each child, and decide what to prioritize this year.
La educación en casa funciona mejor cuando los padres dan el ejemplo y también están aprendiendo y creciendo, asi que fija metas para ti mismo también. 😀
Use this worksheet as a starting point in your priority setting →
Tips For Completing Step 2 ↴
Overarching Priority →
Looking at your assessment from step 1, what can you address over the next year that will make the biggest difference for them?
This will be a very personal choice.
If you decide to focus on a weakness, be sure to balance it with plenty of time in areas of strength.
Needs →
What must happen for this to be a successful year?
This would include state requirements and family priorities.
Wants →
Things you’d like to include if time and budget allow.
Stop →
Things that don’t work for this child or your family that you want to be sure to avoid.
Step 3: Finding Resources
Now that you know what your homeschool planning guide goals are, it’s time to look for resources, and brainstorm. As you are thinking about how to meet each child’s goals, look for ways to meet multiple goals at once. For example, starting a history-themed book club could encourage a reluctant reader, act as your history program for the year, and provide social time. You could study nature or geology while hiking. As you make choices, consider how they impact your overarching priority for the year. Not every choice will be able to incorporate your top priority (sometimes a math curriculum is just a math curriculum), but work it in where you can, and try not to undermine it.
As you find resources, fill out an evaluation form for each one to help you compare and choose →
Where to Find Homeschool Resources
Classes de homeschooling en persona cerca de mi →
Grupos de educación de casa cerca de mi
YMCA
Empresas locales con clases ectracurriculares
Museos y el Zoo
Word of Mouth from Local Homeschoolers
Classes virtuales de homeschooling →
Proveedores individuales
Used Homeschool Curriculum →
New Homeschool Curriculum →
Step 4: Put it All Together
Ahora que tienes muchas opciones, es hora de elegir cuáles funcionan mejor para cada niño. Empieza con las cosas que estás segura de que continuaras del año anterior, luego pasa a satisfacer las necesidades de la guía de prioridades.
As you add to your plan, consider how your addition impacts the overarching priority, and whether it fits in your schedule and budget →
Be sure to leave a little room in both your schedule and your budget to allow for adjustments later.
Step 5: Assess & Adjust
Now that you have a homeschool planning guide, you need to be sure to check periodically that things you have chosen are working the way you envisioned and meeting the needs you intended them to meet. It can be easy to feel like the key to a successful year is making your kids work through your curricula, but it’s most important to make the curricula work for you.
Reserva tiempo una vez al mes para revisar el plan de cada niño, evaluar que tan bien está funcionando cada recurso de la lista y comprobar si, en conjunto, están apoyando tu prioridad principal. Luego, realiza los ajustes necesarios.
Take the time to notice what is working well and celebrate successes and highlights 😀
A Few Simple Changes To Consider ↴
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Ajusta el ritmo
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Anade mad repeticion
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Elimina las tareas innecesarias
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Actividades manuales
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Unete con un amigo para crear un club
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Do the work at a different time or place
this is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!
This is incredibly thorough! Perfect for new homeschoolers, as well as us seasoned ones!! Thank you. 🙂
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