TIME MANAGEMENT

• Start by completing the weekly schedule form provided by your core teacher. Find a “system” that works for you to schedule your time and meet all obligations: calendars — daily, weekly, monthly; post-its, TO DO lists, Tamiscal Student Day Planner etc. Build in incentives.
• Goal is to make the most efficient use of your 24-hour day and still have free time to enjoy.

APPOINTMENTS

• Students need to attend every appointment and class with all teachers each week. Please make TAMISCAL appointments/classes a top priority when scheduling personal appointments. Due to teachers’ full schedules, rescheduling is very difficult and often not possible.
• If a student is sick, parents should notify the office (945 - 3750). Within 24 hours, a parent or friend should drop off completed work and pick up the next week's assignments. These assignments are in the file tray on the bookcase in the Core Subjects Room 8.
• If the next appointment day falls on a holiday, the student will receive a two-week assignment.
• Appointments with core teachers for two or more subjects are typically one hour. Math classes and labs are one hour each. Science classes are always 2 hours once a week. Photography and ceramics are 2–3 hours once a week. Computer Literacy is a one hour class once a week.

ASSIGNMENTS

• Assignments = attendance; a student who arrives with no work has essentially “cut” school for the entire week in that subject.
• Missed assignments in Independent Study will not only lower the grade, but also the credit received. Credits will have to be made up in following semesters. The problem doesn’t “go away” — it can jeopardize graduation. Continued problems in this area suggest that the student may not be suited to the independent study delivery system.

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Tamiscal Independent Study High School
Tel: (415) 945-3750 • Fax: (415) 945-3752
email: tamiscal@marin.k12.ca.us

updated February 5, 2007