How to Choose Homeschooling High School Elective Options
Every high schooler needs electives as part of their homeschooling high school experience. Electives can be confusing because often you don’t know what can count as an elective. Around here, electives are the stars of our show! They highlight our teens’ interests and talents beyond the required courses. How to Choose Homeschooling High School Elective Options is a run down of how you can choose with your teen.
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Electives sometimes throw us for a loop!
What counts as an elective?
How to we design one?
How many electives does my teen need?
Let’s talk about it!
Electives Are an Integral Part of Homeschooling High School
In fact, if you are like us, they are the anchor of your homeschool! Though, that’s not a requirement to design electives well.
A few things to know about electives:
- They are a necessary component of a high school transcript– it’s true and your teen will need to have electives on their transcript as part of a college ready transcript.
- Your teens needs them to round out the credit hours required for high school and/or college admission– in order to have the credits necessary for a successful college admission.
- Your teen has the chance to focus on their story with the electives they choose– that means showcasing their interests, talents, and commitment to a subject area or areas.
So, even if your state does not require electives, they are an integral component of your teen’s high school education. Use them wisely!
How to Choose the Best Electives with Your Teen
So, how do you work this type of magic into your homeschool high school?
Here’s my list:
- Teen’s Interests– this is by far the biggest win for your high school. Work with your teen on an area of special interest for them to earn credit as an elective (and sometimes a core class).
- Core Classes that Aren’t Required– this would be like an extra foreign language, creative writing, psychology, sociology, physics, etc.
- Extension of a Required Course– for example, an extra year of U.S. History, Biology II, Chemistry II, etc.
- Transcript Bonus– use your teen’s electives as a way to dive deeper into an area of study that is important to your teen for their college major, career aspirations, etc.
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More on Homeschooling High School Credit
There’s plenty to think about when it comes to facilitating the high school years with your homeschooled teen.
After all, they have ideas of where they want their life to go and it’s our job to help them to make it happen.
These posts will help you with a four year homeschooling high school plan and you’ll find some of our favorite resources too.
- The Big List of Homeschooling High School STEM Electives– want to get specific and go down the high school STEM rabbit hole? Have fun!
- Our Big List of Homeschooling High School Curriculum Favorites– this is a list of some of our most favorite high school resources you can use to build an elective with your teen.
- How to Choose Homeschooling High School Curriculum– so how do you go about choosing the curriculum with your teen that will be a good fit for them? Read on!
- How to Make a Four Year Homeschool High School Plan– this is where it all comes together and you learn about what makes a high school credit and how to have your teen be involved with their high school planning
- Earning Credits with a Project Based High School– electives make good project based learning courses in the high school years. Learn how to make this happen!
- How to Plan a Unique Project Based High School Course– this post gets to the heart about how to put together a course that leans on your teen’s interests to earn high school credit.
Electives are one of the best ways for your teen to showcase what’s important to them and gives them an idea for what’s to come when they continue their education.
