Guidance from the Ministry of Education related to Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting:

Multiple and varied ways for a student to demonstrate their understanding or mastery of the Overall Curricular Expectations after receiving timely teacher feedback is an expectation of Growing Success and may include:

· Conferencing with students to check for understanding;

· Allowing students multiple opportunities to demonstrate skill and understanding, by repeating all or part of same assessment or demonstrating mastery in alternate and creative ways;

· Offering alternate assignments or segments of assignments for students to complete; and

· Using ongoing formative assessment to inform summative grades.

Reporting Schedules for 2020-21

The current four reporting periods identified in Growing Success continue to apply. Each reporting period will include final marks, comments and learning skills/work habits ratings for courses that students have completed during that period of time.

Recognizing the importance of ensuring that students and families have current information about a student’s progress, at the midterm point for each quadmester, teachers will share a “mark-to-date” report for each student. This upload to Trillium will require each teacher to copy and paste a “.” as a comment for each student. The learning skills/work habits will automatically default to “G”, but will not be visible to students/families. Communication with students and their families who are not meeting the minimum requirements for a course and/or may be at risk of not earning the credit should be

ongoing. For half courses, it is recommended that teachers note a comment and the learning skills for each student to facilitate the final report card process.