Roles and Responsibilities of the Principal of the E-Learning Student’s Home School The duties of a principal are outlined in The Education Act. In the context of the e-learning environment, responsibilities of the principal of the e-learning student’s home school include: • participating in professional development related to e-learning, where available; • ensuring that the student’s e-learning course enrolment is recorded on the appropriate funding register; • determining that students who enrol in a secondary e-learning course are not also registered in the same course either face-to-face or in e-learning in another school or board at the same time as the e-learning course they wish to take; • ensuring information about e-learning opportunities is included in the school calendar; • ensuring guidance services and special education staff receive training regarding e- learning opportunities and enrolment procedures; • ensuring that students who enrol in a secondary school e-learning course are registered in the home school, as defined in enrolment register instructions; • ensuring adequate program support for all students, including those with special needs, and making the delivering school aware of these needs prior to enrolment in the course (e.g., orientation sessions); • giving students permission to enrol or withdraw from an e-learning course. Permission is not needed for enrolment in summer school credit courses. • ensuring that the student’s achievement in e-learning courses taken both in his/her local school and in other schools and/or boards is entered in the student’s OSR and on the OST; • providing a location and xxxxxxx for summative evaluations (e.g., final examination, culminating activity), if required, and ensuring the return of the completed examination to the e-learning teacher by a date pre-determined by the delivering teacher, in compliance with teacher workload.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Principal of the School Delivering the E-Learning Course The duties of a principal are outlined in The Education Act. In the context of the e-learning environment, responsibilities of the principal of the school delivering the e-learning course include: • participating in professional development related to e-learning, where available; • managing the enrolment of students in e-learning courses and ensuring they meet provincial and school board policies for class size; • ensuring the student’s e-learning course enrolment from other boards or schools is not included in the funding register of the delivering school; • deciding which e-learning courses will be offered; • giving permission for an eligible student from another school board to take an e- learning course; • providing an orientation/training program to teachers using the Provincial vLE/LMS for e-learning; • providing an orientation program to students taking their e-learning courses to validate the student’s suitability for e-learning and to prepare them for this style of learning; • ensuring that outlines of the courses of study are available for review; • assigning teachers to teach the online courses and ensuring the courses are included in the required teacher workload as outlined in the collective agreement; • ensuring that e-learning teachers make themselves available to students at scheduled times to support e-learning students; • providing disciplinary support/action in alignment with school board policies when required; • granting credits to students who have successfully completed the e-learning course on the basis of the final mark and recommendation provided by the teacher delivering the course; • providing the student’s home school and parent/student with a copy of the Provincial Report Card; • conducting performance appraisals of e-learning teachers; • monitoring the online behaviour of teachers and students; • communicating board and ministry acceptable use policies to parents of students taking e-learning courses; • ensuring that suspension and expulsion rules, as outlined in provincial policy and school board policies, apply to students participating in e-learning courses.
