Do teachers have to use learning outcomes on the report card?
No, there is nothing in the new Ministerial Order on reporting that requires that learning outcomes appear on report cards. As in the past, teacher evaluation of student progress must be in relation to the learning outcomes in the curriculum unless the student is on an IEP. However, the learning outcomes do not have to be on the report card, or reported on one by one. The misconception arises because some report card software and some report card examples published by the ministry have included learning outcomes. The ministry’s first draft of a standardized provincial report card for Primary included a drop down menu of learning outcomes. However, the ministry has since abandoned its plans to have standardized provincial report cards, and the Ministerial Order which sets provincial policy on report cards makes no mention of including learning outcomes on report cards. The Report Writer Software, and the optional ministry template modeled on that software, has a “checklist” of outcomes,
