Parent and Student Role Policy

Parents orand 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.

• Inform the teacher of resources and services successfully used in the past and/or preferred for the present.

• Collaborate with the teacher to help develop the Student Learning Plan (SLP) by providing the teacher with insight into the child’s passions, interests, learning styles and work habits, and the family’s goals for the education process so that the SLPs can be individualized.

• Inform the teacher of resources and services successfully used in the past and/or preferred for the present.

• Approve the SLP.

• Fulfill the role of teacher’s aide in implementing the SLP.

• Communicate weekly with the teacher and engage in an ongoing discussion about the progress and needs of the learner.

• Maintain records of daily student achievement and make work samples available to the teacher.

• Ensure students in Grades four and seven students have time and opportunity to complete FSAs.the Foundation Skills Assessment.

• Request changes to the SLP including

  Report field trips, events and spontaneous learning opportunities.opportunities to the teacher so that the SLP may be kept current.

• Help monitor and support students in online courses, including building schedules, following up on work submitted and communicating with the teacher where needed.

• Assist the teacher with making initial contact with proposed service providers.

Students should be increasingly ready to take responsibility for their learning should increasingly:by:

• Collaborate

  Collaborating with thetheir teacherteacher(s) and their parents to help develop the SLP by providing the teacher with insight into their passions, interests, learning styles and work habits, andas well as their goalsgoals. for education process so that the SLPs can be individualized.

• InformInforming the teacher of resources and services successfully used in the past and/or preferred for the present.

• Reflect

  Reflecting on their learning and communicatecommunicating weekly with thetheir teacher to discuss progress and needs.

• Maintain

  Maintaining records of daily achievement and makemaking work samples available to the teacher.

• Request changes to the SLP including

  Reporting field trips, events and spontaneous learning opportunities.opportunities to their teacher so that the SLP may be kept current.

• Reflecting on their learning and communicating as needed with their online course teachers to discuss progress, needs and ask for support.