Status Report
The date by which you must send the status report to the Direction de l'enseignement à la maison (DEM) differs depending on the time of year you begin homeschooling.
- Beginning any time before January 1 of the current school year: due 3 to 5 months after you begin implementation of your learning project (after the date you begin homeschooling as indicated in your learning project).
- Beginning between January 1st and March 31st of the current school year: to be submitted with the completion report by June 15th.
- Beginning on or after April 1 of the current school year: no need to submit a status report.
The regulation specifies that that you can incorporate your status report and mid-term or completion report into one document.
However, AQED suggests that you submit them separately, as the information contained in the status report can then be considered as a learning trace during the monitoring meeting with the DEM.
Content
Your status report must:
- report on the implementation of the learning project: indicate in one sentence if the project is going well;
- indicate if you have made any changes to the learning project: briefly explain any changes, if applicable;
- indicate learning activities carried out by subject or discipline, and the approximate amount of time that has been allocated: you can take back your learning project, and add this information.
No need to be exhaustive: only include activities necessary to meet the requirements of the law. The approximate time allocated can be expressed as the total number of hours, the number of working days since the beginning of learning at home, the approximate frequency (every day, once a week, etc.), or an example of a typical day.
Some DEM resource persons insist that documents be written using a competency-based breakdown of the Quebec Education Program (QEP) only.
AQED argues that the Education Act requires an appropriate education, not one equivalent to the school system. The breakdown by competencies in the QEP therefore does not seem to be a reasonable requirement.
Downloadable resources
Status report template
- Status report Template Elementary cycle 1 [.docx]
- Status report Template Elementary cycle 2 & 3 [.docx]
- Status report Template Secondary cycle 1 [.docx]
- Status report Template Secondary cycle 2 [.docx]
Status report combined with mid-term or completion report template
- Combined Status with mid-term or completion reports Template Elementary cycle 1 [.docx]
- Combined Status with mid-term or completion reports Template Elementary cycle 2 & 3 [.docx]
- Combined Status with mid-term or completion reports Template Secondary cycle 1 [.docx]
- Combined Status with mid-term or completion reports Template Secondary cycle 2 [.docx]
Examples and other resources are available in the Member area.