Has anyone ever used this? It came with our MFW CTG kit and I'll be using it with dd11, dd8, and dd7 (the youngers will just do what they can). I'm wondering, though, if I can also use it with dd14 and give her a credit for Art History. It's designed for ages 10 and up and it's a four year program. So, how do you know if something qualifies as a "credit"? She has Tae Kwon Do 4 days a week for at least an hour each time. Can I give her a PE credit for that? I was feeling good about this high school thing, but now I've got myself really confused. Help!
Well, you could try to calculate the Carnegie Unit thing, based on how much time they spend doing a course. I forget how much butt-in-the-chair time they calculate makes a Carnegie Unit, but you could look it up. It has no relation to how much learning took place, only how long their nose was in the book. OR, you could simply call a completed course a credit, no matter how long or short a time it took to actually complete it (my favored method). So if your art course is a "four year course", then completing one-fourth of it would be one credit. Or, if you're not comfortable with that and think it's too much credit for too little work (I have no clue about this course), you could give one credit for half of it done, two credits (instead of 4) for completing the whole thing. It's really up to you. For PE, you gotta figure what amount of time would PS students actually spend doing physical activity, and compare that to how much time your child spends actually doing physical activity in TKD in a semester/school year. In PS, the kids maybe get 35--40 minutes out of a 55-minute hour, taking out for time to change clothes at the beginning and ending of class, maybe a shower before getting dressed again at the end, and that's if they do it in the same gym where they change. If they then have to go out to a field to do a sport, they get even less actual time doing it. But they get credit for 5 "hours" (class periods) a week. Then some days they don't do that either, because they're sitting receiving instruction on whatever sport they're on that grading period, or health. And your child probably does TKD year-round? and competes? WAY enough physical activity for a credit per year....
Thank you! I tried looking it up and I found something that said 165 hours=1 credit but that doesn't make sense because some kids work faster. I like your way better.
