How are teachers required to report on student behaviour, attitudes, work habits, effort, and social responsibility?
The ministry policy requires that report cards include a “description of the student’s behaviour, including information on attitudes, work habits, effort and social responsibility.” The policy does not further clarify what “description of” means, so it could be interpreted to mean written comments, or G, S, and N, or a scale of some sort. Teachers do not have to use the BC Performance Standards for Social Responsibility when reporting on social responsibility, as the performance standards are non-mandatory resources. However, those performance standards are a good reference for what BC teachers mean by the phrase “social responsibility”—contributing to the classroom and school community, solving problems in peaceful ways, valuing diversity and defending human rights, and exercising democratic rights and responsibilities. Social responsibility is not the same as personal responsibility. Evaluation of a student’s social responsibility should not include whether they arrive with their boo
