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At Heritage Academy, we believe that homework is an integral part of a student's total educational development. Learning is enhanced and lessons are more completely understood with the application of additional practice, investigation, and problem solving.

Teacher Responsibilities

• Post homework weekly on the www.edline.net website by 7:30 a.m. the first day of the week
• Provide ways for homework to stimulate positive analytical and creative thinking
• Show ways for more in-depth coverage of content than classroom time permits
• Instill in students a sense of responsibility, self-discipline, and self-improvement
• Offer varied ways for students to reinforce basic skills through practice
• Assign work to promote the development of independent study skills
• Communicate homework assignments to students clearly in writing and orally
• Coordinate and communicate assignments and projects with each student throughout the course in a constructive, instructive, but never punitive manner, especially if the student must miss class due to travel or performances
• Assign approximately 45 minutes of homework every night per course
• Be mindful of and sympathetic to foreign students with limited ability to read and write English. Alternative, differentiated, or tiered assignments must be offered.
• Monitor and review all assigned homework
• Meet outside of class time with students as needed for academic assistance
• Establish and share with your students your homework standards and expectation

Student Responsibilities

• Understand and write down the assignment
• Ask questions about the assignment if it is not clearly understood
• Do assignments carefully, neatly, thoroughly and accurately
• Submit assignments on time
• Complete assignments and tests within one week missed due to absence from class
• Establish good home study habits
• Set aside time for an average of thirty minutes homework each night for each class
• Understand that homework completed on a regular basis will enhance learning and
• will improve grade

Teacher responsibilities prior to and during a pre-planned absence

• Actively seek and post dates when students will be missing for tournament play or performances
• Create appropriate distance learning packets or communicate via Prometheum Board technology lessons and assignments for students who must miss
• Communicate with students who are away through email or Edline
• Follow up with students who have missed to assess understanding, skill mastery, and if "catch up" teaching or work needs to be scheduled

Teacher responsibilities prior to and during a pre-planned absence

• Notify each teacher with the dates of your absences well in advance
• Make arrangements with your teacher for a distance learning packet
• E-mail your teacher with any questions while you are away, if you can
• Complete assignments and exams in a timely fashion to keep abreast of the coursewor