Sault Area High School 2012

LINK Syllabus

And Grading Procedure

Teacher: Tiffinny Blore Email: Room: 608

LINK students will receive a letter grade this semester based on performance in several areas.

LINK students will be graded on the following criteria:

· Keeping accurate attendance records

· Reporting absences

· Daily journaling

· Developing rapport with ASD student

· Communication with student, classroom teacher, coordinator and other staff involved in this program

· Attending and participating in case conferences (4 or more)

· Attending and participating in occasional lunchtime general meetings (3 per semester)

· Reading and writing reflection papers on related topics

· Modeling appropriate learning strategies

· Modeling appropriate social behavior

· Initiative

· Final Exam Grade: Culminating Project

Topics, Key Concepts, and Units of Study: The Basics of Autism Spectrum Disorders; Recognizing Autism; Peer Mediated Instruction; Prompting; Reinforcement; Restricted Patterns of Behavior, Interests, & Activities; Picture Exchange Communication System; Language and Communication.

Materials Needed: pencil/pen, paper, 3-ring notebook, netbook

Types of Evaluation and Assessment: Daily attendance, participation in assigned meetings, completion of reports as required, journaling on the class blog, posts on the class blog, final exam, positive interactions with staff and students at Sault Area High School, being a good role model, being a good mentor, bonding indicators such as time spent with student with ASD and interaction with student with ASD.

Assignment Expectations: All assignments are to be original to the student, complete, and in the form expected by the teacher. Assignments are expected to reflect the best possible effort by the student.

Grading:

Attendance 15% of Grade

Links are required to maintain attendance sheets on a daily basis.

Reporting Absences 10% of Grade

The students with whom the LINKS work will come to rely on the LINKs help. If the LINK is absent, the ASD student may have a difficult time managing his/her class work and behavior. Good attendance is critical! If a LINK student must be absent due to illness or emergency, he must call and report absence before 7:30 am every day of the absence.

Journaling 20% of Grade

Journaling/attendance sheets are for the LINK students to write their observations of the student with whom they are working.

Reflection Papers based on Assigned Reading 15% of Grade

As a part of ongoing training, articles regarding ASD or other related topics will be assigned. Reflection papers will be required assignments in response to these articles. Expect some of this reading and writing to be done as part of the technology inclusion program being used at SAHS.

Tests and Quizzes 15% of Grade

Developing Rapport, Communication, Modeling and Initiative 25% of Grade

· Forming a relationship

· Communication

· Initiative refers to being able to observe, think ahead, and take an appropriate action

· Attending lunch meetings and meeting deadlines

Grading Scale:

93-100 / A / 73-76 / C
90-92 / A- / 70-72 / C-
87-89 / B+ / 67-69 / D+
83-86 / B / 63-66 / D
80-82 / B- / 60-62 / D-
77-79 / C+ / 0-59 / E

Final Exam Grade: Final Project

LINKs students will be expected to complete a project that is related to and reflects the LINKs experience and what they LINK has learned. Instructions and perimeters will be given at least 5 weeks before the end of the semester

Project must focus on one or more of the following:

1. What LINK has learned about himself as an individual

2. How the LINK grew as an individual because of the LINK experience

3. What the LINK has learned about the student with whom he worked

4. What LINK has learned about the specific disability of the student with whom he worked

A variety of mediums are suggested but each project must be approved by the coordinator.

Poster Poetry

Photography Painting/Sketches

Sculpture PowerPoint Presentation

Scrapbook Videotape

Personal Journal