Parent and Teacher Role Policy
Parents or guardians have a supporting role under the direction of the teacher. The role of the parent or guardian is to support the teacher in implementing the education plan for the learner.
The role of parents should be to:
- Have primary responsibility for the child’s well-being, growth, and development.
- Recognize that teachers have professional training and expertise.
- Collaborate with the teacher by providing insight into the child’s passions, interests, learning styles and work habits, and the family’s goals for the education process so that student learning can be individualized.
- Communicate weekly with the teacher and engage in an ongoing discussion about the progress and needs of the learner.
- Make work samples available to the teacher (for example, when the student completes work at home).
- Ensure Grades four and seven students have time and opportunity to complete FSAs.
- Support Flex Academy field trips, events and spontaneous learning opportunities.
- Assist the teacher with making initial contact with proposed service providers.
Students who are ready to take responsibility for learning should increasingly:
- Collaborate with the teacher and their parents to help develop learning goals by providing the teacher with insight into their passions, interests, learning styles and work habits, and their goals for the education process.
- Inform the teacher of resources and services successfully used in the past and/or preferred for the present.
- Reflect on their learning and communicate daily with their teacher(s) to discuss progress and needs.
- Complete and submit assigned work consistently for assessment.
- Accept and integrate feedback from Teachers, Learning Coaches or CEAs.
- Actively participating in field trips, events and spontaneous learning opportunities.