Students enrolled with Productive Learning are required to have two-way communications with their teacher at a minimum of once per week, until the student completes the course objectives or the requirements of the learning plan. Contact may be by phone or through e-class and will be for the purposes of instruction, review of assignments, testing, reporting of student progress, or other learning activities.
Using the clock as a standard for learning is not the goal of Productive Learning. While it is necessary to spend a regular amount of “school time” working on lessons, students and parents need to commit enough time each day so that Student Learning Plans are completed successfully at the end of each month. Failure to complete all the goals of the Learning Plan in a given month might suggest that more time needs to be spent on student work. Teachers should communicate with parents and students in such cases to gauge whether or not the difficulty of the work might be an issue. In such cases, teachers can adjust Learning Plans to more accurately reflect student ability, making goals more successfully attainable. The MAJORITY of the responsibility for completing Student Learning Plans however, rests with the student and the parent(s).