All dual credit faculty are required to meet with the secondary school teacher prior to the beginning of the course to review the course learning outcomes/expectations and discuss Health-Safety-Overview.
Recently, the Ministry of Labour has stressed the importance of mandatory Health & Safety training for all employees in Ontario. The site specific training required MUST be delivered by either faculty or secondary school teachers through a discussion of the particular hazards and protocols for the classroom or lab in which the course will be delivered. Faculty will deliver this training to secondary school teachers when dual credit classes will take place on campus and secondary school teachers will deliver the training when dual credit classes take place at the secondary school.
Other Topics to Address with the Faculty
- School schedule and calendar
- Computer requirements
- AV requirements
- Access to internet and internal systems
- Storage for material, tools, PPE & text books
- Parking
- Other program-specific requirements
Regular communication between the secondary school teacher and Fleming College faculty is critical for student success.
Following the course outline and working with the secondary school teacher, faculty will:
- Provide a week-by-week sequence of instruction that clearly indicates how the expectations and outcomes for each course will be delivered, assessed and evaluated
- Ensure that secondary school teachers and students understand when they are being assessed or evaluated and how the assessment or evaluation is being applied to both the college course content and the secondary school course content
Types of delivery
College-Delivered Dual Credits
- It is best practice to keep the secondary school teacher well informed through a Course Outline to allow him/her to better provide support and assistance to students as required
- Faculty may provide the secondary school teacher with marks for assignments/tests in a Excel spreadsheet so long as ALL students share the same secondary school teacher
Team-Taught Dual Credits
- Outcomes and assessment are determined collaboratively by faculty and secondary school teacher
- Faculty and the secondary school teacher need to review the course being delivered and identify the overlap between the expectations and outcomes in each course
- Working together, faculty and the secondary school teacher will create a Course Outline that identifies who will deliver what content and determine how students will be assessed and evaluated on each component
- Students who withdraw from a team-taught dual credit must also withdraw from the secondary school course as well
In team-taught courses, both the College Academic Regulations and the School Board Policy (Assessment Evaluation and Reporting Procedure) are to be followed with respect to the portions of the course delivered by each instructor (e.g. academic integrity/plagiarism).