Rights

Responsibilities

Students have the right to:

Students are responsible for:

• Know the summative assessment methods that will be used to assess their achievement
• Understand the method used to determine their grade in the course
• Receive timely feedback on the quality of their work
• Improve their performance
• Receive information about school, and/or department and/or course evaluation policies, including the consequences for academic honesty

• Providing evidence of their achievement
• Demonstrating academic honesty
• Completing work to the best of their ability
• Submitting work to teachers on time
• Attending classes and being active participants in the learning and assessment policies
• Communicating with teachers when there is difficulty in meeting timelines
• Ensuring that missed work is completed within the established timelines

Teachers have rights to:

Teachers are responsible for:

• Receive student assignments on time
• Establish final deadlines for the submission of work
• Use professional judgment when assessing and evaluating student achievement
• Expect students to be active participants in their learning
• Expect students to be academically honest

• Providing multiple and varied opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning
• Providing instruction and support to students to learn and practice good time management skills
• Regularly monitoring and maintaining a record of late assignments to be used in assessing learning skills and providing feedback to students and parents
• Providing clear timelines which may include “windows” for work submission and/or collaborating with their students regarding timelines
• Determining and clearly communication assignment due dates
• Assessing and returning student work in a timely manner so that students can improve their work
• Keeping parents informed regarding the progress of their child and initiating contact with the parent/guardian when difficulties arise
• Communicating to students and parents the school/department assessment/evaluation policies, the course expectations, the use of achievement categories weighting and the method of determining a grade in a course
• Informing student and parents regarding how students can receive support for their learning during the course
• Ensuring students understand the meaning of academic honesty and methods for citing references

Parents have the right to:

Parents are responsible for:

·        Be informed regarding course requirements, assessment & evaluation methods, due dates and timelines for work submission

·        Ongoing information about their child’s performance

·        Information about school, department and course evaluation policies

·        Communicating regularly with the school and understanding how they can contribute to their child’s success

·        Initiating contact with teachers if and when difficulties arise

·        Actively monitoring their child’s progress and collaboratively with the school, teacher and child to plan for their child’s improvement