High School Credit Class Guidelines (Traditional classes)

• Courses should have significant rigor, content and assessments that challenge the student to engage, to think and to learn. 

• This includes actual instruction, not just the student working on their own. There should be feedback,conversations and questions between the two parties.

• Courses should require ongoing access between the instructor and student, as well as regular interaction for purposes of teaching, evaluating, and providing assistance.

• This may include e-mails between the student/parent and teacher, feedback on assignments, and the opportunity for the teacher to provide individual instruction to the student.

• The instructor should provide a 6 week interim report. Based upon the report, the student/parent has the right to drop the class, bring the grade up or fail the class. 

• Courses must have a defined time period for completion. It should be clear whether the course is meant to be taken for an entire semester or an entire school year.

• Teachers should encourage their students to keep their coursework as part of their high school portfolio.  

* Courses with content and concepts that are taught and mastered in primary or middle school do not fit this description.