Lately, I’ve been looking at how we will continue to homeschool once my daughter reaches high school. I know how we will homeschool middle school, because our homeschool curriculum goes through eighth grade. I think that once my daughter begins high school we will be doing most courses “a la carte” which means each course, each subject will be a stand-alone course, not a part of a major curriculum.
I feel certain I know what we are going to do for science and I already have some of the social studies planned out. I feel pretty sure I will be using a homeschool writing curriculum as part of our English courses. My biggest concern right now is how we will work through high school math. Algebra and geometry were not my strong subjects in school. I did not have calculus at all. I know that I will have to someone to teach calculus.
This brings me to the idea of dual credit courses. Some local community colleges are offering to give credit for courses for both high school and college. By using dual credit courses my daughter could see not only high school but college courses on her transcript. These credits will be transferrable to a four year college at full credit. I will be looking into this further as we get closer to high school, but doesn’t it sound like a great idea to be able to take one course and get credit for it on two different transcripts, high school and college? It almost sounds too good to be true, and because of that I will look for other students who are doing this and see how it works for them.
If you know about dual credit would you drop a comment on this post?