Learning Plans

What is a Student Learning Plan?

Students enrolled in SPIDER Elementary are expected to cover the same curriculum as their peers attending a traditional in-person school. As part of this, SPIDER Elementary Teachers work with students and families, as a team, to create an individualized Student Learning Plan (SLP) together at the start of each school year.

This document is required for enrolment and must be approved and filed by the end of September.

Students who register after September 24th must have their SLP filed within two weeks of registering with SPIDER.

An SLP documents how SPIDER Elementary families, with teacher support, will incorporate and cover the BC Ministry of Education Core Competencies,  Curricular Competencies and Content as part of their children’s learning. SPIDER teachers collaborate with families to create and implement this plan, and will assess learning based on it throughout the year.

The Learning Plan should include all the ways your family will meet the curriculum (books, workbooks, online programs, activities, lessons, hands on learning, etc) as well as some of the ways your Learning Funds will be spent. However, it is also a working document that can be expanded or adjusted throughout the year as needed, in collaboration the SPIDER Teacher Consultants. 

How Does Creating one work?

SPIDER Teacher Consultants put aside the first few weeks of September to work with families to create Student Learning Plans that will meet the educational and curricular goals for each individual student. If you join later in the year, we will discuss a timeline and plan for the creation of your SLP at the time of registration.

We recommend that you:

• Begin by looking over the sample Student Learning Plans below to see what they can look like. We've included Plans that reflect a variety of family learning styles (more child led, more adult led, experimentally based, workbook oriented, online program focused, etc.), so feel free to look at a few!

• Use the provided templates to record some of your hopes, dreams, resources you know you want to include, etc. 

• Meet with (or communicate with) a SPIDER Teacher Consultant to collaborate on a final plan that they are confident will allow your learner to meet the BC Curriculum requirements.

• Once a SPIDER Teacher Consultant has determined that a SLP is complete, the SPIDER family and Teacher Consultant will sign, date, and the SLP will be officially filed.

• Progress on the goals outlined in SLPs will be assessed throughout the year by SPIDER Teacher Consultants during two mandatory Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences (typically January and June), as well as via ongoing feedback in optional online portfolios, informal check-ins, or meetings any other time a family or teacher requests. Other formal assessments of academic achievement can be organized at parent or teacher discretion. 

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