Philosophy
During class, 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. Work will be entered in Schoology and accessible for completion if not completed during the school day or assigned for completion at home as homework.
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. 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. Students will be given the opportunity to complete work during tutoring time offered after school and sometimes on the weekend. These opportunities will be advertised, and students will be reminded of the tutoring sessions should they choose to participate. 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 will publish their classroom expectations at the beginning of each semester to ensure students are aware of the timeline for submitting makeup work.
Late Assignments
It is the student’s responsibility to complete and submit assignments based on the timelines set by each 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 semester.