About the child's report
Yes. You will monitor your child's progress. Also, if you employ or engage a teacher you should request information on the progress of your child. Arrangements are up to you but it may be reasonable to request frequent feedback and a report twice a year from that teacher.
This legislation is about ensuring that the great job you do as home educators is backed up by evidence of your child's work. Assessment of students' learning via work samples and other means is required by all teaching professionals, and it is part of the respect accorded to the professional job that you do as home educators, that you would supply the same.
The new legislation is about respecting your right to home educate your child, while recognising the right of each child to have a high quality education. Through work samples, your report, will track your child's progress and assist you to set annual goals around their learning.
Assessment materials, such as a folio of work, will also be invaluable evidence of your child 's education should they seek employment, TAFE or tertiary education. The Home Education Unit can assist you with ideas about assessment, record keeping and reporting.
As you develop your child's program you will establish goals or outcomes that you seek to achieve for the year. Around these goals you will develop learning experiences for your child. From these learning experiences your child will produce many fine examples of their learning. These examples will include stories, poems, reading logs, learning diaries, photographs, science observations, posters, songs, projects, models and countless other records. From here you would select those which best represent the outcomes you or your child were aiming to achieve and these would be set aside to form a folio for your child. At report time, you would use these samples to assess your child's learning growth and identify gaps and strengths in their learning.
How to best present this information could be discussed with the education advisors at the Unit. A reporting proforma is available for parents who would like specific guidance around the content of their child's report.
When is my child's report due?
A report is due in the tenth month of your child's registration. The registration date dictates when the report is due. For example, if your child's initial registration date was 25 June 2007, then your report would be due to the Unit between 25 March 2008 and 25 April 2008.
The Home Education Unit keeps track of your individual timeline and sends reminder information about when your report is due.
Does the Home Education Unit provide information and support to help me form the report?
Yes. A report package is sent for each child after they have been registered for about three months. The package contains guides to assist with the report development. Parents can choose to use all of the presented format or develop components of their own.
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