Shared Responsibility

Shared Responsibility

Shared Responsibility is when a home education parent and a school authority agree to share responsibility for the student’s education. With Shared Responsibility, BCS@Home’s distance education teachers provide the teacher-directed portion of the program, including planning, resource selection, instructional delivery, assessment and evaluation of student progress for the selected distance education courses. A BCS@Home facilitator visits twice each year to assess the parent-directed, Traditional Home Education portion of the student’s learning, and provides ongoing support, feedback and assistance to the family as requested. The degree to which parents are assisting with the teacher-directed portion will vary depending on their child’s age, learning needs and grade level.

Program Details

• Families can choose a minimum of 20% to a maximum of 80% of the program to be teacher-directed through BCS@Home, in either Online (grades 7-12) or Print-Based (grades 1-6) Distance Education.
• The BCS@Home teacher is primarily in charge of program planning, instruction and assessment for the distance education portion of Shared Responsibility.
• The Parent is in charge of the remaining home education portions of the program, such as planning, instructing and assessing those courses that are taught in the Traditional Home Education format.
• A BCS@Home facilitator visits twice each year, provides support, feedback and assistance as requested throughout the semester for the parent-directed home education portion.
• To support our high-quality teacher-directed programs, a program fee of $50 per student applies.
• Technical Requirements must be met Required Technology Requirements For Distance Learning
• Prorated amount of parent funding is based on the percentage of the program that is Traditional Home Education. A program that is a 50/50 split would make the parent funding $450.50.