24/08/2018
How it all Works
1. The Student Learning Plan
Your teacher will begin the year by collaborating with you to design a Student Learning Plan (SLP). SLPs are personalized education plans designed to both reflect a student’s unique learning style and interests and meet the Ministry of Education's curricular competencies. Your teacher will work with you by offering ideas, suggesting resources, and writing the final version of the SLP.
2. Communication
Our teachers stay in weekly contact with their families through a variety of methods including: email, phone calls, skype, zoom, Facebook, and texting. Regular communication builds relationships, and allows the teacher to recommend relevant and interesting learning activities. Regular communication is not designed to be a weekly “ confessional” rather a weekly celebration of what your children are learning. Our teachers work to support, encourage and enable education at home.
3. Assessment
In Grades K-9, student assessment is primarily based on weekly reports, ongoing communication and the submission of one portfolios each term. We recognize that students learn continually – not just when they’re using a curriculum. Keeping that in mind, we encourage families to share with their teacher the range of experiences that their children engage in during the week. We want to hear about the informal learning that occurs as well as the more formal learning. Teachers use that information to guide and assess student learning. You may be surprised by how much your child is learning by baking with you, exploring the back yard, and going on family trips. We welcome parental comments about the student’s samples and progress and we ask that students take part in self-reflection of their learning.
In the Grad Program, assessment is primarily based on regular work submissions and communication with the course specialist teacher. The majority of the Grad Program Individualized courses have an online portal in Moodle where students can upload their work and parents can easily access their child’s progress and the teacher’s feedback on an ongoing basis. Report cards are completed four times per year.