Provision and Expectations

Therefore we have constructed the following provisions and expectations (requirements) for participation in our program:

Provisions:

The school will provide each family with a home school advisor, a course menu, an individual graduation plan, a current cum file, a handbook, curriculum guides, textbooks, teacher’s manuals and answer keys, home school seminars and classes (such as writer’s lab, physical science labs, and biology labs), on-campus classes, on-line classes, PSEO (Post-Secondary Enrollment Options) and Dual Enrollment options for college credit in high school, testing, counseling, and extra-curricular opportunities such as sports, drama, National Honor Society, missions, band, and school events.

Expectations:

PARENTS ARE EXPECTED

To meet monthly with an advisor to discuss goals and report progress.*
To maintain a lesson planner, logging a minimum of 900 hours of educational activity.
To ensure that the student maintains orderly and cumulative portfolios of his/her work.
To bring portfolios of each month’s work to each meeting for evaluation.
To take responsibility for the educational oversight of their child.**
To ensure that the student attends any courses for which he or she is enrolled.

STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED

To log a minimum of 120 hours per credit and a minimum of 900 hours per year.
To organize and maintain portfolios for all courses and complete course goals.
To attend monthly meetings and bring portfolios for discussion.
To cooperate with parents, as well as the TC advisor.
To take initiative in developing and pursuing each course.

EACH ADVISOR IS EXPECTED

To evaluate each situation and the educational needs of each student/family.
To guide parents in choosing appropriate classes.
To meet monthly with each family to encourage, troubleshoot, and help.
To assist parents in setting goals, approaching course objectives, using a lesson planner, and creating a means of evaluation.
To encourage through listening, praying, counseling, brainstorming, and guiding.
To love and serve families as God enables her.

*One parent per family is expected to attend, but both parents are invited and welcomed.

**Educational oversight means that parents are expected to be the primary teachers and leaders in all home school courses. If parents cannot provide adequate academic leadership in a course, the parents may hire a tutor to assist, as long as the tutor follows our curriculum guides. (Parents should discuss this with the advisor.) The parents are still responsible. Advisors are not the primary teachers or tutors, although they will do some teaching at monthly meetings.