Reporting

**Reporting on the Three Competencies of LwICT**
**When to report on student learning?** The minimum required frequency for reporting on LwICT for divisions is once a year at a time of their choice. (Policy: []) However many divisions have chosen to report more often, sometimes electing to do so at all reporting periods.

When reporting on student learning, one needs both sufficient time to observe the learning often and to be able to show evidence of learning, that is, to show products created by students that support the assessment they were given on a report card.

Whatever frequency or time divisions establish, MECY suggests the following for divisions who report once. We feel that the first reporting period of the year does not sufficiently meet the first requirement in terms of fair assessment as teachers are still just getting to know students. In early years, this is even more of an issue. While the last reporting period (June) would seem best in terms of allowing the most time for observing student learning, this period does not meet the second requirement in terms of fair assessment as report cards are sent home and parents do not have an opportunity to come to school and view evidence of learning. This can easily be addressed, as some schools have done, by holding a special portfolio night.

The mid-reporting period of late winter seems best suited to both have allowed the collection of significant observations over time and to be able to show evidence of learning.

**For more information**, read: Manitoba Education. Communicating Student Learning; Guidelines for Schools (2008)