Policy: Progress Recording and Reporting
Grades 10-12
Each learner enrolled at SelfDesign Learning Community (SDLC) in Grades 10-12 will have completed a SelfDesign learning plan. Certified educators offer written and verbal anecdotal formative assessment comments, rubric levels and interim guidepost comments and report these to the learners in an ongoing fashion throughout the course. Records of final course percentages are reported to the learner and to the Ministry of Education when SelfDesign is the school of record.
Policy: Assignment Grading and Resubmission
Grade 10-12 Thematic Workshops and Add-on Courses
Learner artifacts are assessed using anecdotal formative feedback on an ongoing basis. There are checkpoints where summative assessment takes place throughout the course, ending with a final mark determined through a collaborative assessment opportunity between the learner and all the educators who have worked with that learner.
Policy: Authentic Work
Grades K-9
SDLC expects learners in grades K-9 and their parents to be honest in the submission of any evidence of learning and to only submit items truly representative of the learner’s work and capacity. Learning consultants are in contact weekly with respect to the learner’s activities and must ascertain, through questioning and conversation, the validity of the learning.
Learning consultants are required to have at least two Direct Connections per year with the learner and family during which they observe the learner either in person or in a video conference.
Policy
SDLC expects learners in grades K-9 and their parents to be honest in the submission of any evidence of learning and to only submit items truly representative of the learner’s work and capacity. Learning consultants are in contact weekly with respect to the learner’s activities and must ascertain, through questioning and conversation, the validity of the learning.
Learning consultants are required to have at least two Direct Connections per year with the learner and family during which they observe the learner either in person or in a video conference.
Grades 10-12
Terms of reference
Plagiarism:
- turning in someone else’s work as your own
- copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
- failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
- giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
- changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
- copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on “fair use” rules).
Policy
SelfDesign expects learners to be honest in the process of writing/completing their assignments. Plagiarism is presenting another person’s work, writing or thoughts as one’s own, and it is considered theft of an idea or words.
Quotations, paraphrasing or summaries of others’ words must be properly cited in an academically accepted style when submitting work.
At the beginning of each course/thematic session learners are required to fill out the Authentic Work and Tutor Use Declaration Agreement.
10-12 Learner Agreements 2022/23
10-12 Learner Agreements – MySELF Themes
Learners who submit plagiarized work for formative and summative assessment will be required to complete the Academic Integrity challenge to learn more about plagiarism. If subsequent plagiarism occurs the learner will be required to have a meeting with a member of the SelfDesign Principal’s team and may have other restrictions or consequences implemented.
In the case where a learner submitted plagiarized work for summative assessment, the learner may not have met the minimum requirements to pass the course. In these situations, incidents will be looked at individually and the learner’s situation and previously completed work will be taken into consideration.
Change Log
- Policy page updated August 22, 2022
- Last reviewed/updated August 22, 2022