SUMMER 2009 Credit Recovery Information

NCVPS Credit Recovery courses will be offered during the Summer 2009 Session that runs from June 15 until August 7. The following courses will be offered:

Algebra I
Algebra II
Geometry
Physical Science
US History
Civics and Economics
English I
English II
English III
English IV

Characteristics of the NCVPS Credit Recovery Program:

The Credit Recovery program is designed for students who have recently failed the course and/or the EOC. The course is designed for the student who has failed the course and needs to repeat the course.

All Credit Recovery courses are mastery based; this means that students will pre-assess at the beginning of each unit, and this pre-assessment will help teachers to determine which assignments from that unit are required for the student to complete for mastery. A high score on the pre-assessment will allow the student to exempt most or all of the assignments of the unit. All courses are designed and taught by highly qualified, highly successful classroom teachers in North Carolina.

All assignments in the course will align with the goals of the Standard Course of Study and will prepare students for the re-taking of the EOC. Once a student masters an assignment, the student will move on to the next assignment. If a student does not master an assignment, the student will remediate the concepts and/or be given another assignment that assesses the material in a different way by his or her teacher.

Students will have weekly contact with their teacher in a synchronous environment as well as daily contact via email. Once all units of the course are mastered, NCVPS will notify the school of the student’s completion of the course and the final grade earned for the course. EOC testing will be the responsibility of the school; the school will also need to calculate the student’s final grade using the NCVPS final course grade and the EOC grade. Teachers will not distribute grades to the students but will communicate in terms of mastery and non-mastery of assignments. Each school will need to communicate final grades to students and parents for those students who master the course. For those students who do not master the course, NCVPS will designate those students as Non-Mastery in the final reporting.


Important information:

1) Summer 2009 Credit Recovery runs from June 15 until August 7. The courses are student paced, so the student can master the course early. Pacing Guides will be provided for each course. All registration must happen through the student’s school level Distance Learning Advisor.

2) In order for a student to be enrolled in a Credit Recovery course, the student must have previously failed the course; the course cannot be taken for first time credit. Local school system policy drives whether a student who has scored a Level III or higher on an EOC will retest once the course has been mastered. For EOC courses, there will be two course codes for each course – one to indicate that an EOC will be taken and the other to indicate that an EOC will not be taken. Again, local school policy will determine which course code is needed. Despite the course code the school system uses for the course, the course is the same.

3) The school needs to have a plan for supporting its Credit Recovery students during the summer session. Every week, the teacher will email the school contact (and the student and parent) a mastery chart detailing the assignments the student has mastered and not mastered. This will give the school a weekly assessment of the student’s progress. The expectation is that the school contact will be making contact with the students to discuss progress.

4) Students must have daily access to a reliable, working computer. Students also must be able and willing to devote several hours every day to working in the course in order to stay on pace.

The registration system is open for all Credit Recovery courses listed above. You will find the courses listed with CR before the title of the course. It is very important that DLAs register students for the Credit Recovery courses that have the CR before the title.

On the NCVPS website under “Courses,” DLAs will find the course codes for these courses and the course descriptions.

These same ten courses will also be offered for the Fall of 2009. For the Spring of 2010, we will offer these same ten courses AND we hope to offer Biology, Earth Science, and World History as well. The offering of these courses will depend upon course development. More information to come!