Philosophy
During class time the teacher acts as a facilitator to provide direct instruction, active participation, and guided practice. Students are often involved in hands‐on projects and cooperative learning groups during class time. Each class period is designed to provide students time to begin homework activities and to allow the teacher time to oversee and correct student practices.
Purpose
The staff, students and parents are in agreement that homework should promote responsibility, effective time management, skill practice, problem solving, and life‐long learning; allow students to access a variety of sources of information; inspire students to learn; and prepare students for college.
Policy
Parents are the primary overseers of homework completion. Therefore, teachers will direct students to record homework assignments in their planners each time homework is assigned. Parents are to check the students’ planners each day and sign the planner indicating they have checked the planners. Students may lose a planner point if the assignments and due dates are not recorded in the planner daily.
Parents and students can expect the following course requirements that typically demand out of class time:
18 hours per year (total of 72 hours) of community service to be completed prior to graduation.
Composition assignments every hexster.
Quality projects - time varies according to the project.
One to two hours of homework per week per hour of college class.
Hours spent at the job site - varies per student.
Implementation
Teachers will not assign “busy work” homework, but will give students activities and projects directly related to the Colorado Content Standards, and the Scope and Sequence of the course in which the students are enrolled. Teachers will be flexible in making homework assignments so that students are not overburdened with homework beyond their requirements in the work‐ study program and additional college classes. Homework assignments will be developed with students’ learning styles in mind.
Homework that is not complete will be communicated to both the student and the parent. A reward system is in place for students each hexter who complete their work on time and have demonstrated out‐of‐class work. Consequences of incomplete work will result in mandatory attendance at supervised homework/tutoring intervention times and/or Grade Day. Failure to complete all required work may result in an Incomplete or No Credit for the course.
Makeup Policy: Assignments
It is the student’s responsibility to obtain and make up any work missed as a result of an excused absence. Teachers at AVC will publish their classroom expectations at the beginning of each hexter to ensure students are aware of the timeline for submitting makeup work. In addition, please review the Job Shadowing Handbook to identify the makeup policy that corresponds to absences as a result of job shadowing experiences. See District Policy JH.
Late Assignments
It is the student’s responsibility to complete and submit assignments based on the timelines directed by each individual teacher. Assignments that are submitted late are subject to penalties as described by the teacher’s classroom expectation policy published at the beginning of each hexter.