Students who are educated in a traditional school setting or in a home schooling environment benefit from specific academic, extracurricular and physical education goals. If you home school your children, you can sit down at the end of one school year, look at what your children have accomplished and use this information to create new short-term and long-term goals for the next academic year. Even parents who send their children to a traditional school can find out what their childrens' teachers are working on and support those efforts by setting their own goals.
Home Schooling
Step 1
Look at your child's current home schooling work. If you have had him working on three-digit addition and subtraction, and he's ready to start learning basic multiplication, write this down as a goal, writes Scholastic website. Written goals are better than those you keep in your head, writes Home-School Curriculum Advisor. In addition, make some goals easier to reach, with other goals set to a more challenging level. Put these goals into weekly, monthly and yearly calendars.
Step 2
Watch your child as she participates in physical activity with her siblings or with other children. Ask her what she's interested in learning for your family's physical education activities and write her responses down. For instance, if she expresses an interest in beginning to learn gymnastics, write down short- and long-term goals, recommends Scholastic. These could be learning how to tumble or jump on a trampoline for short-term goals. Write your long-term goal down as: Learning simple tumbling and trampoline routines.
Step 3
Write down a socialization skills goal for your children. Ask them to write down what they are interested in doing--joining Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, playing basketball or learning to play a musical instrument, suggests Scholastic. Your short-term goal can be exploring different activities with your children and your long-term goal can be signing up for and participating in an outside, extracurricular activity for at least one semester.
Traditional Schooling
Step 1
Read your child's school schedule and write up a tentative outline so you have a general idea when his teacher is introducing a new topic to the class. Stop by your child's classroom and ask his teacher if she has any additional materials you can use to supplement the homework she sends home, advises Access ERIC.
Step 2
Stay abreast of the homework assignments being given to your child, how her teacher expects her to complete and hand it in, and what she can do if she is having trouble, writes Access ERIC. Write this information down on your home schedule for easier reference.
Step 3
Instruct your child to think of and write up a homework schedule he can follow easily, suggests Access ERIC. Have him take into account any extracurricular activities he is involved in, such as baseball or music lessons.
Tips and Warnings
- As you think of and write down goals, make sure they are specific and measurable--learning to spell 85 percent of the spelling words you present to your child, for instance. Other goals are meant to be more open-ended, according to the Home-School Curriculum Advisor.
Things You'll Need
- Calendars
- Teacher's academic schedule
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