Do you want to teach independence and accountability to your children, but not sure how to do it? I would like to introduce you to a set of homeschool planners that will help you accomplish that while organizing assignments, schedules and responsibilities for all reading members of your home.
Homeschool Planners for the Whole Family: How to Teach Independence and Accountability
The more children a home has the more the desire to help them each learn to be independence, while having a sense of accountability. I have found that with our own home, the sooner I give my children the responsibility for their daily homeschool lessons, the easier it is to see that independence and accountability unfold in their lives.
The difference between independence and accountability is important to understand before implementing a system that includes homeschool planners that children become responsible for on their own.
With independence, this is something that is expected of the child to learn and demonstrate. Without clear understanding, instruction and direction, independence can easily become a handicap for a child, because then they believe they are their own boss. However, with the correct safeguards in place, a child that is trusted with her or his daily assignments will begin to feel a pride of accomplishment in their work and the correct balance of independence that will breed respect of authority, while taking ownership of their work.
With accountability, this is something that the adult is responsible for to ensure that a child is learning proper focus and attention to the details of their assignments. When first starting out with independent work, based off a homeschool planner that belongs to one child, I personal hold the child accountability daily. Bad habits are hard to break when too much goes between accountability checks.
I will then increase the days between accountability checks, as the child has demonstrated proper independence, until I work up to only checking on their assignments at the end of the week.
Let me introduce you to the homeschool planners that the whole family can benefit from, while you focus on teaching independence and accountability in each of your family members.
Learn more about this Ultimate Homeschool Planner
I love how thought out this homeschool planner is, as it focuses on more than just academic needs for your family. With nearly 300 pages, this planner has EVERYTHING.
Here is what is included:
- Sturdy construction with convenient pockets and coated covers
- Six years of calendars for long-term planning
- One-Year Planning Grid for the year ahead
- Student Goal Setter pages to identify academic and character goals for each child
- Family Priorities page to help you keep life in perspective
- Resource List pages to track resources for up to six children
- Two-page planning grid for each month
- Special Notes for scheduling exceptions that break your routine
- Wide margins to record prayers and answers to prayers
- Scriptures for meditating on God’s faithfulness
- Exclusive Lord’s Day feature for making God’s Word a central part of your plan
- Maximum flexibility to organize for up to six children by day or subject
- Memorable Moments and Evidences of Grace pages for recounting God’s activity in your life and home school
- Pages to record grades for up to six children and six subjects
- Reading List pages for up to six children
- Field Trip and Outside Activities logHigh School Planning Grid with a sample plan
- Year-End Review pages for reflection and next year’s planning
Learn more about this Ultimate Homeschool Planner
Do you have children in elementary grades that already know how to read, and you desire to begin working on their independence and helping them be accountable for their work? If so, I have a great homeschool planner just for them!
The Ultimate Daily Planner for Students
This student planners is colorful, and includes trivia questions, timeline facts for World and American history, along with plenty of space for daily assignments, with slots for marking when they are completed, and when the work has been approved. The perfect system to implementing the independence and accountability.
You can learn more about this student planner and download a free sample.
Do you have a teen that is going into high school, and you want a system that they can help you better track credit hours? You will want to check this teen planner out:
Check out more about this planner with the download sample.
This teen planner does that and in a theme look that appeals to teenagers, along with quotes, and verses that appeal to moms. It also includes a lot of reviews for grammar and math that will prove helpful to many teens.
Check out more about this planner with the download sample.
I sit down at the beginning of the school year with each child’s list of subjects and curriculum. I make a schedule of what has to be done by what date (for the middle and high schoolers). For the elementary schooler, I make a plan of what units to study for history, science, art, and music. I cross out holidays on the calendar and write in our co-op days. It sounds strange, but it has worked for us.
Excited to begin our FIRST homeschooling year!! ♡
I allow my children to work at their own pace for the most part. I set guidelines, but how they complete everything is up to them. There has been much less struggle since doing this and they enjoy learning more!
My planning in the past has varied from a planner I purchased to trying to keep with what is needed. I am hoping to teach our children how to successfully plan their day so that they can take ownership of their work.
Great giveaway. Thank you!
I have a third and first grader with a preschooler learning along with us:) I have not found a method exactly for planning. I simply decide what topics we want to cover that semester/year and write out weekly assignment’s for the third and first grader. I would like help organizing and recording what we cover each semester.
I plan a week at a time in my planner. We do mondays and fridays as lighter days with some subjects that are considered a little more fun. Tues-Thurs are our ‘heavier’ days. I try not to plan too far in advance, because then I just have to erase everything.
I am definitely interested in teaching my children independence and responsibility, and accountability. This looks like a great starting spot. The majority of my kids are in Middle School/high school and most of them can read. I only have one non-reader – he is 3.
I figure out what worked well last year and if it will work with the child again. Then I check if I have all the books and make a lesson plan for each of them per week. They just check everything off their lists.
I don’t have a homeschooling planning method. I primarily work with my kids on religious education as they actually attend public schools and I do enrichment and enhancement at home. I would like to come up with a method of planning that teaches them responsibility and accountability for what they are doing and their choices. I do have a preschooler that I am working an trying to set up some sort of program for. but I haven’t found what will work as he doesn’t read yet and doesn’t always communicate clearly.
This is our first time homeschooling and I appreciate your posts about it. Very helpful!